Jackson Jambalaya

Meanwhile Madison, Clinton, Oxford and Ocean Springs and other high performing schools breathe a sigh of relief. Prep and MRA also.

The only people pushing for this are the opportunists who will immediately start charter schools in order to soak up some of this money. Conservative graft at its best.

Paging Auditor White.....follow the money.....right into Tater's and Jackass Jason's pockets. Offshore.

I just want my children to get an education without my son being physically assaulted and bullied by thugs and my daughter sexually harassed and physically assaulted by thugs. I don’t want their teachers and classrooms to be disrupted by thugs. I just don’t want them going to school with thugs period. I want them to go to school with people who talk like them and have the same culture and values as them. Why is that so wrong?

Mmmm, conservative tears

Winning the state wide republican primary requires some combination of majority votes in Rankin, DeSoto, Jackson (county), and Madison. I guess Republican leadership didn’t do well in math.

There are again way more school districts than needed. The overstaffed administration in these school districts is a joke. Teachers are needed but good teachers paid well. Take the money saved cutting administrators and pay the teachers with it.

The State of Mississippi needs to make the schools that are not performing well hold administrators accountable.
The state needs to cut funding to school districts and cut number of districts that are over staffed with administrators that add no value to the district.

Last but not least prayer, punishment and respect for fellow man needs to be instilled in the children.

I bet you look at the schools that are performing well have great principals that protect their teachers and children so they can teach. You will find discipline and respected leadership. One could argue a well run school does not need another layer of unproductive management on top of it.

School Choice solves none of the above problems just tries to distribute money to what is perceived as improving education. My suggestion is to consolidate districts, make school districts accountable for performance through regular testing and put discipline back in school. Where are the “Coach Carters” of the world. PS you can’t eat a football, basketball or baseball the last time I checked. Team sports are good for building character but not building a life long success for the average child.

This from a Republican that grew up in Jackson. Went to public school. Not convinced “School Choice” helps anybody especially the child which is what this should be about.

@8:39am - Nobody is stopping you. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and pony up for the private school of your choice, cowboy. You already have school choice, you don’t need taxpayer handout (or maybe you do).

The ones from Madison and Rankin are voting the way their constituents want them to. Remember what happened when Johnny Black made the mistake of discussing maybe Canton and Madison schools should merge? Don't think those politicians didn't pay attention to those results.

My kids are already in private school. I don’t want the school flooded with poors and thugs.

Let's just keep the poor kids that cant afford to move to better school districts trapped. Let's keep them dumb and stupid so they continue to vote Democrat.

Nice strawman but Chokwe was educated. Plenty of braindead dumb Marxist democrats are well educated. No school in America is going to teach a young mind full of mush what it takes to be a good American.

That would be the influencers out there like the Charlie Kirk. As much as people don’t like it, the only voices that young people are listening to are going to be exaggerated and extreme. They are going to be people working the algorithms for views. Young people aren’t interested in boomer echo chambers of the past.

Kingfish:

As a Rankin County voter, I can tell you my representative did not vote the way his constituents wanted him to. RCSD is an A-rated district and one of the largest employers in the county. The three Rankin County dopes who voted against their local schools are about to learn a hard lesson come Election Day.

Personally, I can’t wait to vote for anyone but Brent Powell and I am not alone in that sentiment. Yancy and Hurst, you’ve got some ticked off voters in your districts as well. Hope that infusion of campaign cash gets eaten up in ads justifying your vote.

Rankin County is officially wide open and the voters are ready to give the bird to the incumbents.

How about fixing the referendum?

Pay attention everyone. There were three Rankin County reps that voted against their constituents and successful school district. Exactly the number needed to pass this garbage in the House. Funny how that works.

Did most of those republications voting against the bill represent districts with high performing schools?

I am no fan of the Speaker, but it is pure comedy for the Whiner-in-Chief Bill Crawford to call someone a whiner.

11:27 obviously doesn’t understand the legislative process. Unfortunately, Crawford doesn’t understand the process any better either. The House and Senate don’t like each other and that is what is really holding up progress. There is no question the House is much more conservative than the Senate. However, this is really just the two Chambers not wanting the other to get any credit.

Had Ford and Newman in mind when I wrote that comment. Stand corrected.

As much as I hate liberals, I despise RHINOs like Billy ten times more. They have caused far more damage than the democrats.

I would truly like to know what DJT has done or said that makes Billy the RHINO hate him so much.

Thank you, sir. You are point on. Mississippi is a poor state with a small population, which means there are limited funds to be distributed to education.

The merging of school districts, and the reduction of administrative staff is absolutely essential to the change that is needed to make our education system what our children need.

@11:08am Well said!! Lotta idiot Boomers in the Legislature.

Billy sure does take an abnormal amount of pleasure seeing Republicans fail, I wonder why?