[JohnR]

Originally Posted by spence

That makes sense, let's stuff the schools with first timers learning on the job with no experienced mentors.

Actually - when I worked 4 years in a RI K-12, most of the hardest working teachers were the young ones - not the ones corrupted by the system.

Originally Posted by detbuch

Are the ten poorest states really Republican? Apparently not:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markhen...ly-republican/

There are so many variables in these state by state comparisons that making broad overall judgments by one statistic is beyond stupid.

Here's another example from another point of view:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timwors.../#631224291d60

I bet the top 20 poorest large Cities are all Democrat