Florida #1 in Educational Freedom

You do realize that’s a ranking made up this year by the heritage foundation that ranks shitty school systems high on choice because wealthy citizens opt out of the poorly run systems and send their kids to non-public schools which registers as “choice” in this ranking?

 

Any rankings with LA, WV, and MS as top notch regarding education is a joke. Florida is a decent system… today.

 

Anything about education and Mississippi being top level of anything is LOL funny. Swing and a miss.

 

I know when I think “educational excellence” I think Mississippi.

 

Is education freedom synonymous with excellence?

 

I thought the Republican argument was that it was?

 

i think it’s an important component. If teachers are improperly constrained in what they can teach, the quality of education goes down significantly.

 

Based on that map it would seem to be an inverse correlation

 

How can there be educational freedom in Florida if teachers can’t say gay?

 

What a joke thread.

 

Alternative facts. Alternative rankings.

 

12 minutes folks. Took 12 minutes to dismantle a low information OP. Unreal.

 

What are the dems going to do...

You can tell they were disappointed UF remained at Number 5 for Public Schools. They so can't stand DeSantis that they really do put off the feeling they wish we fell in the rankings.

 

Adjustments to those rankings happen slowly. Give it time before the "improvements" wreaked by DeSantis take effect and get noticed - those that might pass constitutional and institutional muster anyway. Took UF a very long time to climb to #5.

 

Nah, there are several seasons why we have a better (not perfect by any means) school system that many states. The AP classes is a huge win for the gifted/smart students, while other states are dumb-ing down their curriculum and taking away advanced classes and placement. Some states are punishing smart kids and purposefully making them take basic classes with everyone else.

 

Which state is systematically getting rid of AP classes?

 

Or the whole thing is completely overblown by those who literally just hate DeSantis.

 

States like California have been busy trying to kill advanced math in high school for years...

 

Regardles of where one places the blame, what happened last year was real. Our accreditation actually had to go through and audit review over it. It was a big deal in academic circles nationally, and why it was assumed we would drop. Pleasantly surprised we didn’t, but the effects of some of the new laws aren’t fully baked in to the rankings yet.