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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gave a paper at Ole miss and found oxford Mississippi to be pretty depressing.  Found out that a lot of the faculty and administrators actually live over the border in Tennessee and commute into Mississippi because the schools are so awful, etc.  The campus was so pretty but there were unbelievable poverty right outside the gates o the school.  It was also just so darned hot!  Not a breeze anywhere and in July!
Wow![/quote]

I find this a little hard to believe.  It's about a 2 hr commute one way if they're doing this.  I have two friends who are professors at Ole Miss, and they send their kids to private while living close to Ole Miss.[/quote]

My oldest is a professor at Ole Miss.  I’m from Northeast Mississippi.  You can get from Oxford to Tennessee is about 40 minutes, easily.  It’s not a two hour commute.  I’m not sure why anyone would  want to live in/near Memphis though.  Most Ole Miss faculty and staff send their kids to local public schools.  Both Oxford and Lafayette County have good schools.  Overall, the schools in Mississippi are god-awful.   But there are a few exceptions. [/quote]

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