Valentine Pontifex

The anti-evolution bill in Mississippi has died:

MS Legislature page on bill

NCSE story

Ding dong the wicked bill is dead.

Until the next one is introduced.

RufusAtticus

Good. When was the last time anyone said, "Our schools are terrible. Let's look to Alabama as our model."

Robert G. Ingersoll

Alabamer? Jebus, no - Kansas is my personally preferred model. (And Carmel Wells-Smith ain't in Mensa. I checked.)

Grad Student Humanist

Well, when you're Mississippi anything's a step up.

I should know. I teach freshman comp at a state school in Mississippi and, needless to say, their high schools haven't adequately prepared them for such rather basic tasks as writing a three page personal essay or summarizing/analyzing a piece of prose. They're pretty resourceful, if not always succesful, when it comes to cheating though.

gcameron

Hardly nice to post a "thumbs up" when Mississippi Bill dies.

Next you'll be cheering the death of Minnesota Fats...

Mageth

You beat me to it, gcameron...I thought this thread was either about the untimely demise of a poker player or perhaps the passing of some little town's spring-predicting groundhog.

Robert G. Ingersoll

- Things are rough all over though, apparently. I've heard there's a lot of crappy schools in Massachusetts, among other places that have a much better rep.

Also, I saw a recent report that a majority of U.S. high schoolers in general can't find Mexico on a map, don't understand heliocentricity, etc.

lunachick

LOL!

Me, too. I thought it might have been some old blues dude, like Memphis Red.

Oolon Colluphid

Hah! I beat you both to it (more or less) by a few hours in this thread...

DT

Dr.GH

Dang, that Mississippi Bill could sure blow harp.