"We're not last! We're not last! We're not last!"

[DRoseDARs]

Oh lord, Nevada continues its not-so-proud tradition of being high in everything you want to be low in and low in everything you want to be high in...

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/package.jsp?name=fte/smartstates/smartstates

States Ranked: Smartest to Dumbest
The smartest state in the union for the second consecutive year is Massachusetts.

The dumbest, for the third year in a row, is New Mexico.

These are the findings of the Education State Rankings, a survey by Morgan Quitno Press of hundreds of public school systems in all 50 states. States were graded on a variety of factors based on how they compare to the national average. These included such positive attributes as per-pupil expenditures, public high school graduation rates, average class size, student reading and math proficiency, and pupil-teacher ratios. States received negative points for high drop-out rates and physical violence.

How does YOUR state rank?
[list=1][*]Massachusetts[*]Connecticut[*]Vermont[*]New Jersey[*]Wisconsin[*]New York[*]Minnesota[*]Iowa[*]Pennsylvania[*]Montana

[*]Maine[*]Virginia[*]Nebraska[*]New Hampshire[*]Kansas[*]Wyoming[*]Indiana[*]Maryland[*]North Dakota[*]Ohio

[*]Colorado[*]South Dakota[*]Rhode Island[*]Illinois[*]North Carolina[*]Missouri[*]Delaware[*]Utah[*]Idaho[*]Washington

[*]Michigan[*]South Carolina[*]Texas and West Virginia (tie)[*]Oregon[*]Arkansas[*]Kentucky[*]Georgia[*]Florida[*]Oklahoma

[*]Tennessee[*]Hawaii[*]California[*]Alabama[*]Alaska[*]Louisiana[*]Mississippi[*]Arizona[*]Nevada[*]New Mexico[/list=1]

[Kuciwalker]

They should count Northern Virginia as a separate state

[Imran Siddiqui]

Woo... New Jersey is #4!

[MrFun]

Iowa is in the TOP TEN!!!!

[Pekka]

I know why they won.. because their state is quite difficult to spell. by the way, I have the perfect pronounciation for it, so that makes me like extra cool and stuff, but the point is, none of these other bozos can even spell massachusetts. *looking up* holy cow! I got it right the first time! No surprises there, I'm the man actually in case you didn't know it yet. Now just think about our master race.. most of you bozos (outside Poly) don't even know where we are, or that we exist. Thus, it makes us the master race and the ultimate future enforcerer. I just wanted to say enforcerer. OK what's next? WHAT? cell phones gone wild video? This should be good..

[Guynemer]

I might as well be the first to make the obligatory point that all of the top nine states voted Democratic in 2000.

That is all.



EDIT: grammar (thanks Verto)

[Imran Siddiqui]

Sometimes, Pekka, we have to wonder whether you are all here .

[Verto]

General Sherman shall pay.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Guynemer
I might as well the first to make the obligatory point that all of the top nine states voted Democratic in 2000.

That is all.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yeah, but New Mexico voted Democrat in 2000 as well .

[Verto]

I might as well [be] the first to make the obligatory point that all of the top nine states do not share a border with Mexico, and do not suffer from the extreme burden of illegal immigration.

[Sava]

43-48 are bush states, right?

[Sava]

I'd also like to point out the first SOUTHERN STATE is at 25.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Um.. Sava.. Virginia is at 12.

[Sava]

sssshhhh!!!