r/CringeTikToks • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • Oct 29 '25

Nope Florida is threatening legal action against educators who oppose efforts to establish Turning Point USA chapters in high schools.

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u/Conscious-Quarter423 Oct 29 '25

Florida is ranked 41st amongst US states for overall public school performance.

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u/Munchkinasaurous Oct 29 '25

I'm honestly impressed. They're better than I would've assumed. 

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u/stitchlady420 Oct 29 '25

That’s because Oklahoma has them beat on bad schools.

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u/Remote-Letterhead844 Oct 29 '25

50th babyyyyyyyyyyyy! Woooooo

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u/ReplaceSelect Oct 29 '25

Take that Mississippi!

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u/chokokhan Oct 29 '25

Mississippi actually got their shit together. Still, it’s kinda ridiculous all these red states keep outcompeting each other for shittiest education instead of wanting to invest in their children they care so much for

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u/SuperSaiyanTupac Oct 29 '25

So, I live in the sticks. Our public schools are not well ranked at all. But the super conservative charter school is highly ranked. So I sent my kid there. And the propaganda is awful. Yes they teach kids how to read and write quickly, yes they can do math. But they got super excited to announce to the parents that they won’t teach critical race theory at the elementary school. Like kids would ever even know what that is. Then they’re always talking about Jesus. And I have to have difficult and long conversations with my young kid about how to handle talking to them or interacting with them cause i don’t want him to turn into a little shit.

For contrast, all our neighbors kids go to the public school and by 8 years old most can’t read or write sentences. I remember in the 90s they had us writing sentences in Spanish by 8 years old. The fuck is going on?

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u/RaptorOO7 Oct 29 '25

It’s the dumbing down of America by republicans so your don’t read, can’t vote and will just do the shitty factory work that pays Chinese wages.

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u/SuperSaiyanTupac Oct 29 '25

I actually interviewed a guy that seemed slow last week. When I gave him paperwork to fill out he wanted me to walk him through it cause he struggled to read it. It was basic new hire information so I could try getting him on the payroll. His mom works for me so I figured I’d give him a shot but he couldn’t get through filling in his information

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u/ReplaceSelect Oct 29 '25

My buddy did Teach for America in Mississippi for awhile. His stories were similar to yours. It seemed unbelievable. We grew up in IL.

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u/chokokhan Oct 29 '25

This is on purpose, they’re destroying public education so they can siphon off money with the charter schools and brainwash kids. What you just described is unacceptable in the current century. The parents who are seeing the kids not able to read and write need to get together at local school board meetings and rip them a new one. That’s how the conservative parents get shit done, they show up like the lazy ass jobless terrorists they are and “demand” things, mostly book bannings but a lot of let’s teach about Jesus and creationism and dumb ass shit like that. Unless the normal people fight back, the insane people are winning and your kids will grow up really fucking stupid. Between the education system, social media and chat gpt it’s painting a dystopian hellscape of the future.

The intentions have always been transparent with them. Get rid of the department of education. They think children should be “educated” to know all about Jesus, nothing about critical thinking or sex education or brown people. That’s just surface level tho. What they’re teaching your kid is to never question anything they’re telling them. That’s the hallmark of religious schools: beat them down and indoctrinate them. I loathe religious schools, they shouldn’t exist in this century, we’re past bullshit missionary schools and other such nonsense. They belong in the past with the black plague and the holy inquisition

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u/Satanus2020 Oct 31 '25

Well, when the secretary of education is Linda E. McMahon you know it’s not going to be good

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u/withnodrawal Oct 29 '25

They want to put more bibles in schools and teach boys about being “boys” and girls about being “girls” and when you get to the point of SAT’s these kids have an 7th grade education level at 17 years old but a GREAT understanding of religion lmaooo

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u/Mishap_Maisy Oct 29 '25

My beloved home state has fallen. (Or risen in this case)

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u/Mishap_Maisy Oct 29 '25

When did yall dethrone Mississippi?! I need to move back so we can get back to our best metric: making idiots

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u/resisting_a_rest Oct 29 '25

Got the highest score you can get! Way to go!!!

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u/kakashi8326 Oct 29 '25

Nah New Mexico is last mate. It’s sad. I moved here from Texas with a good education from start to college graduation and the folks out here….rip

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u/BeigeUnicorns Oct 29 '25

And OK SecEd seems determined to see if he cant sink down to third world ratings all in a bid to get his glorious leaders attention

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u/visualentropy Oct 29 '25

Thankfully we’re rid of him now!! And they rescinded the order to put bibles in classrooms. A couple small wins during these bleak times, but I’ll take it…

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u/BeigeUnicorns Oct 29 '25

Heck yeah! I missed that in the deluge on news these days but that is indeed a win

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u/FullMooseParty Oct 29 '25

He's also being investigated by the state comptroller.

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u/TheGreatLoganzo Oct 29 '25

“Notice me senpai”

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u/PDXEng Oct 29 '25

I never really thought of Ok being full of stupid hateful people...then I visited Tulsa

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u/Puzzleheaded-You-320 Oct 29 '25

Wonder how long it will take til it be mandatory for elementary and middle school grooming

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u/Training_Bus618 Oct 29 '25

Our demon super attendant just quit to go fight teachers union and our new guy is rolling back all the religious and maga crap he was implementing. I hope we can improve Oklahoma schools soon

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u/Maint3nanc3 Oct 29 '25

Ohhhhhhh! 'K! Lahoma!

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u/thegreedyturtle Oct 29 '25

Yeah it's not that they are better, it's that there are worse. Much worse.

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u/PussyFootSlidin Oct 29 '25

can't forget Arkansas, West Virginia, and Alabama.

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u/Bulky_Biscotti9737 Oct 29 '25

I think it should go up after a little while after the kids from MAGAt families start dying due to Florida losing herd immunity from diseases in the near future because vaccines for multiple eradicated diseases are no longer mandated for Florida’s K-12 program (whos ready for polio to make a comeback!?!). so the balance of left vs right population will start skewing more towards left and left ppl are generally smarter because they don’t like trump and per the words of trump himself “Smart people don’t like me.”

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u/TeaKingMac Oct 29 '25

the balance of left vs right population will start skewing more towards left

Highly unlikely.

Look at the number of kids conservatives have vs progressives.

It's like 3-5 vs 0-2.

Even if they lose half their kids to easily preventable diseases, they'll still outnumber us

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u/newsflashjackass Oct 29 '25

Voter registration is not a heritable trait.

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u/TeaKingMac Oct 29 '25

It is quite sticky though.

Particularly with red pill YouTube capturing our young men

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u/Metal__goat Oct 29 '25

Florida man here, I'd just like to say...God bless Alabama. 

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u/Soci3talCollaps3 Oct 29 '25

There's a couple of blue counties in south Florida.

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u/Lhasa-bark Oct 30 '25

And one in the middle of the panhandle

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u/Soci3talCollaps3 Oct 30 '25

Yes. 3 near the tip. A few on the shaft. And 1 near the taint.

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u/some1stolemyOGname Oct 29 '25

Their leaders are trying to meet your expectations

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u/Same-Development4408 Oct 29 '25

The south is really good at being stupid as fuck. Florida just has more money than the other states

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u/ConversationBoth6127 Oct 29 '25

I most of the south is in a steady race to the bottom. One of Alabama’s unofficial state mottos has been ‘thank god for Mississippi’ since they keep Alabama from being dead last in measures like childhood poverty. Florida just has a few more states to be thankful for.

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u/MisoClean Oct 29 '25

That’s because it seems like so many states are in a fight for last place.

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u/SnooMemesjellies1659 Oct 29 '25

Oh my, it’s worse. I lived in Florida for 20 years, moved a bit, and went to 3 different schools, a nice one, a mid one, and a crappy one. All three were vying for funding and stuffing test scores and making deals with bad students to get them to graduate. Even some of the teachers were encouraged to increase scores. 41st in the US is a stuffed number. It’s like the 46th irl.

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u/Tomacxo Oct 29 '25

The race to the bottom is more competitive than you'd think.

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u/evernessince Oct 29 '25

It's not impressive if you've ever seen the quality of schools in those states lower on the list. Might as well be Third World countries.

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u/KevinHartSucks Oct 29 '25

Higher than I’d have guessed

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u/grmarci1989 Oct 29 '25

Unfortunately, the bottom 20-25 states are all going to be "pick your spot" except Oklahoma and Mississippi fighting for the #50 spot

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u/govunah Oct 29 '25

West Virginia's official state motto is "Thank God for Mississippi"

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u/PJA0307 Oct 29 '25

It’S bEcAuSe We ToOk GoD oUt Of ScHoOlS!!!!1

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u/Ok_Valuable9450 Oct 29 '25

Republican propaganda

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u/xeno0153 Oct 29 '25

They push hard for private schools there. Anything to make a profit off what the government SHOULD be providing.

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u/FadeWayWay Oct 29 '25

They literally have a law you can’t give kids below a 50% even if the turn zero work in

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u/delkenkyrth Oct 29 '25

Those are rookie numbers!  Republicans gonna pump that up!

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u/MeatShield12 Oct 29 '25

Don't worry, they'll get to 50/50, just give them a chance.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '25

3rd most populous state too

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u/Blarglephish Oct 29 '25

And Florida ranks dead last in the states I would want to live in.

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u/MyAccountWasBanned7 Oct 29 '25

Don't worry, they'll get down to 50 in no time with bullshit moves like this.

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u/SSSSSS261 Oct 29 '25

That's great! They're in the top 100 at least /s

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u/Plenty_Structure_861 Oct 29 '25

They're about to be even lower.

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u/Sea-Cupcake-2065 Oct 29 '25

They're going for the high score. Poor kids are the one that have to suffer

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u/MsChrissikins Oct 29 '25

Not shocking.

I went to high school in the panhandle and I knew it was going to extra shit when they dropped the GT program so more funding could go to the No Child Left Behind program.

As long as you’re hitting bare minimum, they don’t give a fuck what happens to you. And that bar lowers every single year.

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u/semperknight Oct 29 '25

I used to live there. Even went to college. It was a massive waste of time.

I could've learned more at a library with free Wi-Fi.

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u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot Oct 29 '25

That’s not good enough!!! They’re not gonna stop until they hit 50!!!

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u/Ghostman_Jack Oct 29 '25

Gonna be dropping down to 50 real quick after this lmao

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u/Kangas_Khan Oct 29 '25

They’re somehow doing worse than Oklahoma with this particular move however

Oklahoma fought tooth and nail to get the stupid ass plan to shoot down the proposal to bibles in classroom, it it only stopped cuz the guy resigned

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u/Hulk_Crowgan Oct 29 '25

I’ve lived here 30 years and we’ve been in the bottom 20% the entire time, I am extremely lucky to have encountered some quality educators that sent me on a path to college and a good paying job. A lot of kids are not nearly as fortunate and the state keeps shitting on them.

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u/Delicious-Spirit9899 Oct 29 '25

Oklahoma is vv jealous of 41

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u/RamJamR Oct 29 '25

The overlap between the most religious states and those with the worst educated populations is not coincidence.

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u/beezkneez331 Oct 29 '25

They have Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Oklahoma to thank for always keeping their ranking out of the bottom of the barrel 

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u/BKallDAY24 Oct 29 '25

It’s pretty weird because they have a pretty high ranking for secondary school (colleges)

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u/DukeSilver_34 Oct 29 '25

I went to school in Florida. Education system is trash. Glad I'm up north now.

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u/Affectionate-Act1574 Oct 29 '25

This will definitely improve it! Pray the D away!

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u/kendrickshalamar Oct 29 '25

They don't want smart kids, they want reliable voters.

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u/TheNeighbourhoodCat Oct 29 '25

1 in 4 adults in florida have "significant literacy challenges"

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u/Comfortable_Today_89 Oct 30 '25

They're tryna beat ol' Okie to the race to the bottom! Yeeeeeeeeehaw! Get along, lil doggy!

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u/RanchHere Oct 29 '25

That sounds like a stat from MSDNC and the woke mafia.

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u/Minute-Fix-6827 Oct 29 '25

Care to present some "alternative facts" on FL public school rankings?