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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I made this thread almost 5 years ago.

Today, this popped up on my twitter timeline:

https://twitter.com/MattGrossmann/status/1113258527244656640

Dude is a michigan state political scientist currently at Harvard/MIT and a niskanen center fellow.

"In racially homogeneous states, the public responds to rising economic inequality with economic liberalism; in more diverse states, the public responds to inequality with economic conservatism (& less support for welfare/education)"

quoting a paper written by an academic at UNC.

Looks like over the last half decade, my initial thesis has been proven more and more correct. [/quote]

We were a left-leaning family who moved more toward the center.  I dropped the Dem political label and went Ind.  After being in education for over half of my life in a VERY large and liberal system, I took my family and moved to a smaller, more conservative area.  I tried to maintain rigor but the threats from admin. were brutal.  So kids were (still are) being pushed toward that finish line with absolutely no skills to help them survive after graduation - low reading scores, no academic stamina, clueless about any post-secondary schooling or training.  just pathetic.

I can't believe the difference here.  There's teacher autonomy.  Onus is on the students.  My daughter struggles to maintain a 90% in math - and I mean it's a struggle, and a good one! Kids are proud of their part-time jobs and scramble to interview for slots at the local businesses.

No one is crying over politics. I don't have to watch what I say - and as a moderate, I do see the good and the bad on both ends.

But nothing beats the sense of community.

This is why people run.  This was THE BEST move for my children. [/quote]

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