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> This is the Louisiana education system in the USA, a state which is rather notorious for having sub-par education What does this have to do with anything? E

> This is the Louisiana education system in the USA, a state which is rather notorious for having sub-par education What does this have to do with anything? Exceptional people come from absolutely anywhere, and seek to learn on their own. It's as true in Louisiana as it is in Massachusetts. Ken Thompson was born and (at least partly, afaik) raised in Louisiana, for example. Are we all just dumb people using a dumb person's language and OS?

selimthegrim 4y ago
There’s even people from the state that read this forum now and then
- slightlytwisted 4y ago
  Indeed. I’d like to add the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts as another example of a great high school. https://www.lsmsa.edu/ https://www.lsmsa.edu/
  - selimthegrim 4y ago
    I’m a grad student at Tulane in New Orleans I was being sarcastic
    - slightlytwisted 4y ago
      I understood that you were being sarcastic. I should have said I loved your comment and thanked you for it as someone who was born and raised in New Orleans.
filoleg 4y ago
A lot of people also don't realize that, even though schools in states like Alabama and Louisiana on average perform poorly on primary education metrics compared to other states, each one of the states almost definitely has at least one absolutely great high school that is extremely competitive on a national level in academics. For example, look at LAMP High School[0] or Mountain Brook[1] in Alabama. One is listed as the 17th top school in the US, the other produced 3 Rhodes scholars. Both consistently rank very high on the lists of top schools in the US. And there are quite a few other pretty academically great schools in that state, just ranked a bit lower (but still as some of the best schools in the country). 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_High_School https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_High_School 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Brook_High_School https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Brook_High_School

selimthegrim 4y ago

There’s even people from the state that read this forum now and then

slightlytwisted 4y ago
Indeed. I’d like to add the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts as another example of a great high school. https://www.lsmsa.edu/ https://www.lsmsa.edu/
- selimthegrim 4y ago
  I’m a grad student at Tulane in New Orleans I was being sarcastic
  - slightlytwisted 4y ago
    I understood that you were being sarcastic. I should have said I loved your comment and thanked you for it as someone who was born and raised in New Orleans.

filoleg 4y ago

A lot of people also don't realize that, even though schools in states like Alabama and Louisiana on average perform poorly on primary education metrics compared to other states, each one of the states almost definitely has at least one absolutely great high school that is extremely competitive on a national level in academics. For example, look at LAMP High School[0] or Mountain Brook[1] in Alabama. One is listed as the 17th top school in the US, the other produced 3 Rhodes scholars. Both consistently rank very high on the lists of top schools in the US. And there are quite a few other pretty academically great schools in that state, just ranked a bit lower (but still as some of the best schools in the country). 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_High_School https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_High_School 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Brook_High_School https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Brook_High_School