Reply #28: I live in a county in TN that has a 20% drop out rate. [View All]

It's a quietly affluent county that used to pride itself on its *education*, and still tries to paint itself that way. The people aren't buying the concept as well because they are paying higher taxes, and the parents of school age kids are being run ragged raising money to help the schools on top of a $30/child school fee.
I don't know the outcome yet, but last night the county commissioners were going to vote whether or not to reinstate the Maintenance of Effort fees to the state, so that the state would not come to the library and literally haul away 20,000 books, or a third of the entire collection.

People are getting fed up with this kind of stuff, and are starting to blame the Republicans for it. And one thing that will make a difference in the election is that the county is booming, with people from all over coming to live here, essentially diluting the backwardism. Hallelujuh!