Kentucky
ranks 41st in quality of post secondary education, worst state for
retirees by Wallet Hub, Forbes, etc. Senior care it also gets low
marks being one of the three worst states regularly for seniors as
well as being a state with a rapidly increasing crime rate due to
economic inequality, joblessness and lack of educational achievement.
Let’s
just say that Kentucky schools are so bad that the state wants to
take over the Jefferson County Public Schools system in Louisville
the largest city. The only problem is that the schools in the rest of
the Commonwealth of Kentucky aren’t really faring any better when
it comes to achievement.
In
the recent few years, the average Kentucky 8th grader only was
proficient in science at grade level at a rate of 36 percent. In
mathematics among 8th graders and 10th graders the rate of
proficiency at grade level was only 40 percent. Even more pathetic is
the fact that Kentucky schools not only in Louisville the most well
off school district for funding have horrible reading
comprehension/English skills and writing rates.
In
2017, the rate for 12th graders in Kentucky being proficient at grade
level 12 in English composition/grammar/comprehension was a paltry 55
percent and even worse in Jefferson County aka Louisville about 52
percent. So in essence only about slightly half of the high school
graduates can even function at grade level or better. Which means
that when they get into some sort of Kentucky college they usually
end up having to take all kinds of remedial English classes in order
to catch up to where they should be in other states that value
education more.
Not
to mention that Kentucky has the highest rate of drug abuse in the
country and highest percentage of meth users and meth busts. Add in
being #1 state for child abuse and number #1 for animal abuse laws
being so lax. Not to mention very low rates for elder abuse and
taking advantage of the elderly. As one insurance company employee of
high stature once told me, that she was in business to make money and
if you can do it to basically con older people because they are easy
to talk into things. Not my type of people to hang around with and
definitely people I wouldn’t do business with.
Kentucky
is also horridly governed and has been for generations including huge
pension debt as proportional to its size and population as a state.
Roadways that are increasingly becoming dilapidated or simply not
maintained especially in more rural counties away from the cities. As
well as a culture of corruption that makes Kentucky one of the most
corrupt states along with Illinois.
If
anything that should set off warning bells when your state is one of
the most corrupt states in the country based on being that close to
Illinois when it comes to convictions of politicians and crooks. Look
up Operation Boptrot which was one of many Kentucky criminal cabals
that have been running over the past few generations. Some of the
good old boy system again showing its perennial propensity for
corruption.
By
the way, before the Kentucky readers downvote me I lived there for
the better part of a decade and traveled the entire state east to
west and frankly there are better and more productive areas of the
country in which to live and work and play. Don’t fall for the so
called hospitality and charm because much of it is fakery anyway and
you’ll understand when YOU as an outsider either marry into
someone’s family or move to someplace that people say “You’re
not from around here are ya?”
Just
be forewarned that Kentucky is not for everyone and culturally its
just a microcosm of some of the worst things of the American South.
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