MSU article in Oregon paper
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Yep, here is the real deal!
“If anyone watches what we do on a daily basis, you would understand that we’ve put in the work and the time,” Girodo said. “We’ve worked so hard on what we do and we’re finally getting rewarded for it. It’s so awesome.”
Go Dogs!
“If anyone watches what we do on a daily basis, you would understand that we’ve put in the work and the time,” Girodo said. “We’ve worked so hard on what we do and we’re finally getting rewarded for it. It’s so awesome.”
Go Dogs!
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They obviously have an intellectual superiority complex. Never have figured out why non-Southerners automatically think Southerners are dumb. Mental acuity is pretty well evenly distributed across the country, and even around the world.
They obviously have an intellectual superiority complex. Never have figured out why non-Southerners automatically think Southerners are dumb. Mental acuity is pretty well evenly distributed across the country, and even around the world.
I often think about this.
Mississippi and the southeast in general has a horrible reputation for its public school system and I think it's in large part to the spotlight it received 50 years ago. The state of Georgia has gotten a huge amount of flack in the last 3 years because there are still public schools that sponsor separate black and white proms. Mississippi's charter school initiative was entirely botched. When we studied it in one of my political science classes I read an article from a national newspaper that had a quote from the national charter school association president or whatever they call their group saying it was the worst charter school bill they had ever seen.
I've attended public school in Mississippi my whole life, from elementary through my undergraduate studies. I think I turned out fine, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't have an advantage going to a 6A school in Harrison county over kids from the Delta who also went to a public school there.
The huge thing to me is New York and Michigan (best two examples) have equally as bad of public schools but receive half the publicity for them as we do. When No Child Left Behind came into effect only 40% of the entire state's schools were passing grade. Part of the Act was that states were left to design state tests and regulate pass/fail. Michigan simply made an easy taste and made 60 a passing grade. The 40% became something closer to 70% in less than a year.
I think the state of New York spends more money per student than any of the 50 and has the lowest $ to success ratio and it's not even close. Utah has one of if not the lowest $ to student ratio and has the highest $ to success ratio. Crazy how Mississippi can't figure it out when there are successful models already in place.
The ignorant southerner image really pisses me off but it's something I've become used to. After Katrina the only time my hometown got any publicity was when they would find one of the few white trash scumbags in our community and interview them on live national television about their trailer/meth lab being washed away. There are some stupid *** 17s in the south and they are really vocal about being from the south, whereas the normal guy doesn't wear a camo jacket, a gas station trucker hat, or draw attention to himself in a manner that says "wow, that guy looks like southern white trash". If you're not sure what I'm talking about, I live in New York and lower income or less educated southerners wearing Bass Pro Shop hats and Ducky Dynasty shirts on vacation here for the first time stick out like sore thumbs. Nothing wrong with dressing how you like, I wear cowboy boots almost every day during the winter, but there's a difference between wearing boot cut jeans with nice boots and some stuff that could be bought at Wal-Mart.
Best way to fight that is to go out into the world, interact with people, and make a great impression and somewhere in the conversation plug being born and raised in ________.
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This is how I live my life. I love to see the stereotypes crumbling in their eyes as they are forced to reconsider their prejudices, even momentarily.
While I generally agree with your points overall, I just want to note that while it's true Georgia has gotten a huge amount of flack about those proms, the schools DON'T actually sponsor the proms. People in the community have their own private events. I think both of the schools that have made the news in recent years tried to have integrated official school proms in the last decade, but nobody bought tickets and still went to the private events. (I think some of the problem is that the parents are much looser chaperones vs. the school officials)
It still makes the south look bad to other regions of the county, which was your point, but legally that they are private events is a pretty big distinction.