We have had one of the lowest-ranked school systems in the country for a number of years. Those unprepared children pass up from grade to grade and eventually matriculate into general society. That’s when the real impact of failed teaching begins to show.

That impact ranges from clerks who can’t make change to government workers managing systems that are targeted by hackers. Nevada was targeted because it is vulnerable. Nevada workers fail at many other jobs between those two extremes as today’s world demands great communication skills (reading and writing), the ability to manage finances (math) and the ability to understand the difference between a scam and an opportunity (common sense). While many other states — including Mississippi, once the bottom-dweller — thrive, Nevada operates at

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