Pretty sure they would have to pass a new federal law to do that because states are the ones who adopt standards and the education secretary gets no say in it. like, it would make no sense for them to outlaw something that's already optional.
And if they do target these standards, they're only making red states even worse at competing in the jobs market with blue state transplants. I can't tell you how many students I teach in college who are behind the curve coming from red state educations, while the blue staters are bored and pass with A's. I could probably do a study since it's gotten to the point that I don't even have to check the class roll for their hometowns; if they have a bad grade, they're almost always from a red rural area.
Man, that pisses me off. Roughly a third of the state voted for dem congress candidates, zero representation in congress.
Damn, at least in MS we got Bennie.
I'll be honest and destroy any credibility I may have in the process here. I don't have or use Twitter in any capacity. Pretty much my entire exposure to it is what people re-post here.
It just has always seemed like such an asinine method of communication. I can't help but feel like it's the most detrimental thing the internet has ever birthed.
Edit: And yes, I include the chans in that statement.
I'm with you. I tried Twitter years ago for a few weeks, but I can't train my brain to scroll past the bullshit (as in, convos people are having with each other, dumb retweets, etc... that aren't really meant to be read). I just end up with a headache.
Have I told you about our lord and savior closed-list PR?
You'd never get it, especially in red states. The best hope is a court decision forcing computer drawn districts with a goal of PR-like representation as an end goal. Red states like Utah should end up like MS in theory (where I'd love to have a blue wave, but realistically, 1 out of 4 is closer to accurate for our proportion of blue to red. We don't really have a gerrymandered state).
