In our recent comparison of New York and Florida, written in response to left-wing Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s strange trolling of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, we briefly touched on how the Sunshine State is eating the Empire State’s lunch on education. Florida isn’t alone in this respect.
Much has been made of the extraordinary “Mississippi Miracle” in the Deep South, and for very good reason. Meanwhile, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos offered the following assessment of the Big Apple’s government-run school system: “If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, packages would take six weeks to arrive, we’d charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item.”
Ouch…