33% of schools in Missouri are only open four days per week because Missouri Republicans have refused to fund public schools for 22 years.
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Good reason to warn kids, kids who have been taught to respect adults and whose brains aren’t even fully developed, to stay away from Republicans and MAGA. Don’t talk to strangers needs this update: get away from strangers, trump supporters or Republicans who approach you.
aug 5, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
That is absolutely insane. Public schools functioning like bougie dental practices.
aug 5, 2025, 2:01 pm • 4 0 • view
Apparently the GQP is allergic to belt tightening!
aug 5, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
And force religion on them for the disempowering cognitive dissonance that keeps them trapped in lies.
aug 5, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
The dumber the better is the MAGA mantra! How else would you get them to buy in on their BS!
aug 5, 2025, 1:44 pm • 4 0 • view
😨🤯
aug 5, 2025, 12:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Over 50% of Colorado school districts operate on 4 day school weeks for the same reason. Not good...
aug 5, 2025, 3:40 pm • 7 4 • view
😳
aug 5, 2025, 8:44 pm • 0 0 • view
How’s that going? 🤔
aug 5, 2025, 2:12 pm • 1 0 • view
😲
aug 6, 2025, 12:44 pm • 0 0 • view
That explains a lot.
aug 5, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Miserable Missouri. Shameful.
aug 5, 2025, 5:48 pm • 0 0 • view
If rural MO folks wanted their kids to have a good education they would vote for different politicians.
aug 5, 2025, 12:49 pm • 13 0 • view
Missouri voters truly are dipshits. They constantly vote for liberal policies, but then keep voting for conservative politicians, and then act completely shocked when those conservatives undermine and overturn their votes on said liberal policy. Wash, rinse, repeat.
aug 5, 2025, 12:59 pm • 14 0 • view
Indiana had NO dems to vote for on the ballot. It's not the voters
aug 5, 2025, 1:18 pm • 13 1 • view
Why would anyone run when they know there is no chance of winning? If a district voted for Trump by a 2 to 1 margin the voters have decided they don't want anything to do with Democrats. When the voters decide to vote differently there will be Democrats lined up to run.
aug 5, 2025, 1:23 pm • 1 0 • view
There’s a dipshit here, but it’s not who you think it is.
aug 5, 2025, 1:22 pm • 9 1 • view
MO voters keep voting for politicians who have cut their kids schooling by 20%. That is moronic. The people who voted for that are dipshits.
aug 5, 2025, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
How can I possibly vote for candidates who aren’t on my ballot? I’m not being a dipshit. I have no choice. I have to abstain from boating and most races on my ballot. There aren’t Dems on the ballot.
aug 5, 2025, 3:24 pm • 10 0 • view
"The people who voted for that are dipshits." If you didn't vote for that you aren't a dipshit. If you want to vote for a democrat then run as a democrat.
aug 5, 2025, 3:31 pm • 1 0 • view
They don’t understand. It’s the combination of candidates running without opposition *and* R voters who vote solely for R candidates but then do not vote for issues at all. D issues end up passing, but R candidates sweep the ballots. And then the corrupt R’s kill the D issues that passed.
aug 5, 2025, 4:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Can they Write in a Candidate?
aug 6, 2025, 12:00 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, but even write-ins need funding and actual campaigns, else they’re going to have nothing compared to the candidate actually on the ballot. And write-ins take *a lot* of work You’re asking people to memorize a name, spell it correctly, write it clearly, etc… as opposed to filling in a circle.
aug 6, 2025, 12:18 am • 1 1 • view
Also, they could look into an Ink selling an ink stamp as well as a donation. Then use that on Election day!
aug 6, 2025, 12:25 am • 0 0 • view
Have to innovate and create new solutions!
aug 6, 2025, 12:25 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, there is more error with that process. I'm saying when will the POOR MAGAts give up on the MAGA Program? Clearly, by now, you have to know that MAGA does not care about you or your family. They vote against you and the common American family. They use your vote for unlimited POWER. Need sumDIFF
aug 6, 2025, 12:21 am • 0 0 • view
You cannot just stay in a FKD UP situation and say: "oh well, I'm getting FKD." Do something about it. Funding comes from Billionaires. Copy the MAGA playbook and talk to Musk, Cuban, Zuck, Gates, Etc. Funded candidates win 95% of races. Get to Work Rural America! Source: youtu.be/R8BQf7aM2gM?...
aug 6, 2025, 12:24 am • 0 0 • view
Dems have to get a Real Solution about where the resources to fight this Tyranny will actually come from and why that part of it matters.
aug 6, 2025, 1:47 am • 0 0 • view
I live in MO. My entire life. Voted since 18. I’ve *never* voted for a conservative. To say “MO voters are dipshits” is to continue to ignore the LIFETIME of work we’ve put in trying to elect Democrats. Using that same logic, *you* are a dipshit for letting the orange goon into the White House.
aug 5, 2025, 1:41 pm • 0 0 • view
If you have spent a lifetime of work to elect Democrats in MO then you are doing something wrong. Maybe, instead of pandering to the voters, you should be telling them how moronic they are being by voting for people who are making them poor, sick and stupid.
aug 5, 2025, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
If you’ve spent a lifetime of work trying to elect democrats, why isn’t there one in the White House? Maybe you’re doing something wrong.
aug 5, 2025, 1:54 pm • 0 0 • view
If you aren't voting for conservative politicians, then why would you think that my comment about people voting for conservative politicians was about you? Fine, here. *MOST* Missouri voters are dipshits. Better?
aug 5, 2025, 1:45 pm • 1 0 • view
I took it the same way Jess took it. It’s insulting as hell. We’re constantly berated by the politicians in our own state, but now we have the hyper critical from elsewhere casually calling us dipshits. THERE ARE 16 MILLION DEMOCRATS IN RED STATES. We’re tired of being thrown under the bus.
aug 5, 2025, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
No one is throwing you under the bus and, as I said, if you're not voting liberal policy and then backing conservative politicians, then this doesn't even apply to you. Chill tf out. My god.
aug 5, 2025, 1:55 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m a Missouri voter and your initial statement was a very, very broad brushstroke. Be clear with your labels. Calling me a dipshit and then telling me to chill tf out is wild. Jumping back in with clarification doesn’t ease what was felt with that initial sting.
aug 5, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
If the post didn't apply to you then don't take it personally.
aug 5, 2025, 2:08 pm • 0 0 • view
How is this a helpful comment? There are many dems in Missouri working to change our legislators.
aug 5, 2025, 1:42 pm • 1 0 • view
"The people who voted for that are dipshits." Did the dems in Missouri vote for that? If no, then why would they take my comments personally? I don't understand why some people go out of their way to feel outraged.
aug 5, 2025, 2:10 pm • 0 0 • view
You... you know there's no way to vote AGAINST someone, right? Just because you CAN post something doesn't mean you SHOULD post it, ma'am.
aug 5, 2025, 1:47 pm • 5 0 • view
Why, yes. I do know that! That's why that's not what I said.
aug 5, 2025, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Huh, seemed like you were blaming voters for voting for the scum when the reality is they voted for the alternative in the few cases where they had that choice, or didn't vote at all when there was no alternative.
aug 5, 2025, 2:01 pm • 6 0 • view
If they wanted an alternative they could have run for the office. They don't run for the office because they know that no one with a "D" after their name has a chance in rural MO. That won't change until the majority of voters decide they don't want to be sick, poor and "poorly educated" any more.
aug 5, 2025, 2:15 pm • 1 0 • view
It won't change until Churches aren't allowed to steer our political discourse and declare an entire party as being people you must hate. Regulate the Churches and fix the issue. Enough is enough.
aug 5, 2025, 5:05 pm • 3 0 • view
Exactly. Start by taxing the hell out of them. If they want to play politics then they can pay Caesar.
aug 5, 2025, 8:30 pm • 1 0 • view
That would help, sure, but liberal Christians need to start calling out maga Christians as being NON Christian. And they just refuse to do it.
aug 5, 2025, 8:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Piper has the right idea. Get Dems on the ballot in rural areas. Even if they lose for a few cycles they will make progress. AND if there is a local Dem on the ballot Dems will be more likely to vote period.
aug 5, 2025, 5:18 pm • 22 2 • view
I live in a district that votes 2 to 1 Republican every 2 years even though we run a Dem. Waste of time and money. Many districts aren't going to switch to voting blue until the culture in that district changes, and that won't change until right wing media is destroyed.
aug 5, 2025, 8:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Piper lives/works in Missouri where people vote for liberal ballot measures but elect MAGA Rs. She believes: - Rs running uncontested discourages blue votes. - Voting blue even in deep red districts is good during federal elections, it negates the assumption blue votes are all in urban areas. 1/
aug 5, 2025, 9:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Agreed the right-wing propaganda machine is leading voters by the nose into a dictatorship. Reagan really screwed America when he paved the way for the Fox "News" GOP propaganda network. And now Putin is using social media to manipulate voters all around the world. Our work is cut out for us. END/
aug 5, 2025, 9:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly.
aug 5, 2025, 5:20 pm • 3 0 • view
Bingo. They complain that the Democrats have forgotten them, but they keep voting for this nonsense. It's a little hard to have sympathy towards someone complaining about their foot pain when you watch them continually shoot themselves in the foot.
aug 5, 2025, 12:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Only stupid people will believe the 💩 coming from this administration! Lack of education is to their benefit 🤬
aug 5, 2025, 4:33 pm • 9 1 • view
The stupid leading the ignorant. How maga.
aug 5, 2025, 4:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Too bad, reading, math and basic critical thinking was taught on the day they’re closed
aug 5, 2025, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
WTF ! Who the hell are voting for these assholes ?
aug 5, 2025, 8:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Our government’s contempt for its own citizens is incredibly disturbing
aug 5, 2025, 12:49 pm • 25 4 • view
They are getting the government they voted for.
aug 5, 2025, 1:15 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s a participatory democracy.
aug 5, 2025, 1:04 pm • 5 1 • view
the thing is that most of the people who participate support this awful shit, People wonder why I don't like my neignbors, take a look at who they've elected.
aug 5, 2025, 4:50 pm • 3 0 • view
Wow. I was not aware of that. So sad.
aug 5, 2025, 1:03 pm • 2 0 • view
The Texas small town school district where I live has gone to 4 day weeks as of the school year that just started.
aug 5, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
What!!
aug 5, 2025, 10:34 pm • 0 0 • view
And the only reason Republicans can do this is because the majority of voters keep voting for it. When you have enough people who don't care enough about their own self-interest and would rather "own the libs," this is what happens.
aug 5, 2025, 3:24 pm • 15 2 • view
🤬
aug 6, 2025, 2:56 am • 0 0 • view
That is messed up School is the most important stepping stone to making it in America #WTF ?! Republicans hate all Americans
aug 5, 2025, 1:04 pm • 3 0 • view
The poorer their education, the better they fit his base.
aug 5, 2025, 1:15 pm • 1 0 • view
This is absolutely pathetic
aug 5, 2025, 2:19 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s one way of keeping the people dumb so that they always vote republican
aug 5, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
An uneducated or undereducated citizen is easier to manipulate and control.
aug 5, 2025, 12:50 pm • 32 2 • view
Really? That’s ridiculous And for decades?
aug 5, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
This is impressively horrifying.
aug 5, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
What?!
aug 5, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
So...this puts the burden of one day a week child care on the parents who work while their kids are not in school?
aug 5, 2025, 1:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Are the school days lengthier over the 4 days, so they still attend the same number of hours? I'm just curious. Thanks.
aug 5, 2025, 3:19 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s a growing trend nationwide as well. Public education, due to republican dominated legislatures is leaning more to for-profit schools which favor whites and wealthier families. But it’s just so “the haves” keep more and the “have-nots” let it happen. www.k12dive.com/news/4-day-s...
aug 5, 2025, 1:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Only 12% of the people in Missouri have gone to college. So that tracks.
aug 5, 2025, 1:17 pm • 4 1 • view
OMG. NYC is 5 days away/week and specialized programs like after school etc to help students. I am so sorry for this. Children are loosing out on their educational opportunities.
aug 5, 2025, 1:21 pm • 5 1 • view
They love the ignorant.
aug 5, 2025, 3:16 pm • 1 0 • view
God forbid that the general public gets a decent education, that way the Republicans can feed them BS and slogans and they swallow it.
aug 5, 2025, 3:13 pm • 3 0 • view
😮
aug 5, 2025, 5:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Budgets reflect choices between competing priorities. These choices reflect the relative value that we as a society place on each item. Republicans value cruelty, ignorance, and superstition over compassion, education, and science.
aug 5, 2025, 1:03 pm • 0 0 • view
And look, a ruby red state It’s almost as if they’re fucking related We can serve as a cautionary tale to the world - if Rupert Murdoch stays on the air for 30 years and there are no social media guardrails you too will turn into a fascist dictatorship
aug 5, 2025, 3:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh wow. One of the teachers I work with from MO told me schools are better there than this state. That’s really saying something.
aug 5, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view
SINFUL AND DISGUSTING and should never happened anywhere across AMERICA.
aug 5, 2025, 6:33 pm • 2 1 • view
Smart state. Not.
aug 5, 2025, 3:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Cringe….
aug 5, 2025, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Why the South won’t rise. Ever.
aug 5, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Sounds Missourable
aug 6, 2025, 5:30 am • 0 0 • view
Republicans like ignorance
aug 5, 2025, 9:49 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s insane.
aug 6, 2025, 3:31 am • 0 0 • view
Ohio has a similar situation, though not sure about the number of days. Ohio legislators keep voting to approve vouchers & build stadiums and haven’t fully funded education programs for years, even after our state SC told them they should in the DeRolph v. State case and those after this ruling.
aug 5, 2025, 6:35 pm • 5 0 • view
Same as Florida.
aug 5, 2025, 8:44 pm • 0 0 • view
😳
aug 5, 2025, 8:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Keep 'em dumb when they're young so they end up numb.
aug 5, 2025, 12:50 pm • 10 1 • view
"the formative years" "What, me worry?" — Alfred E. Neuman
aug 5, 2025, 1:04 pm • 3 0 • view
⬆️⬆️⬆️
aug 5, 2025, 12:50 pm • 1 0 • view
How long is the school year? How long is the school day?
aug 5, 2025, 1:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Colorado has moved to 4-day school weeks and it has nothing to do with funding. I love having a 3-day weekend with my kids.
aug 5, 2025, 1:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Primarily small rural districts affecting a small percentage of students, not the larger urban ones.
aug 5, 2025, 1:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Hovering around 40th in education is something to be proud of. They don’t want an educated populace.
aug 5, 2025, 12:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Which goes quite some way to explaining why Missouri voters fall for the BS the GOP is spouting.
aug 5, 2025, 9:58 pm • 1 0 • view
What??!!
aug 5, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Keep the peasants ignorant.
aug 5, 2025, 1:49 pm • 5 0 • view
wow
aug 5, 2025, 4:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans are dedicated to enforced ignorance; it's the only way their party thrives.
aug 5, 2025, 1:19 pm • 3 0 • view
It's almost as if they don't like educated people.
aug 5, 2025, 1:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Don’t move your kids to Missouri!
aug 5, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Holy shit poor Missourians.
aug 5, 2025, 12:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Do they give "vouchers" to parents so they can send their offsping to christian academies five days a week?
aug 5, 2025, 5:23 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes. And the “education” they get there is skewed far right.
aug 5, 2025, 8:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Keeping people uneducated is exactly how you ended up with the orange clown.....
aug 5, 2025, 2:16 pm • 4 0 • view
This explains a lot
aug 5, 2025, 6:04 pm • 0 0 • view
What the heck? That’s crazy. They wouldn’t stand for that here. Parents would go ballistic!
aug 5, 2025, 2:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Nearly 40% of schools here in Montana. State had a huge budget surplus and finally put some money into starting teacher salaries this year, as we were 51st (yes, 51st) in that category in FY 2023-24, according to the NEA. 45th in average teacher salary, 44th in higher ed faculty salary
aug 5, 2025, 1:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Are they counting Puerto Rico? There are only 50 states.
aug 5, 2025, 1:46 pm • 0 0 • view
DC is counted
aug 5, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
sad. sickening.
aug 6, 2025, 11:24 am • 2 0 • view
... in hopes the Dumb and Dumber keep Riding The Crazy Train🤔🤷♀️😖
aug 5, 2025, 7:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Are there any voucher programs in that state?
aug 5, 2025, 3:22 pm • 0 0 • view
hartmannreport.com/p/we-watched... A MUST READ PLEASE SHARE
aug 5, 2025, 6:43 pm • 1 1 • view
And a lot that are open 5 days a week really aren’t, because of half days they love to label “collaboration day” which is just code for we can’t afford to keep operations going 5 days a week. It’s so messed up and I feel for anyone in this state with school aged children.
aug 5, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view