https://illiterateuky.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/illiterate-kentucky/
This article though quite dated back to 2000 says a lot about Kentucky and the truth is that in many of those cities and counties not much has changed over the last 17 years. If anything, the Kentucky educational system is a disaster when nearly half of the population that graduates high school can't read at a proficient or distinguished level. Especially in a state that spends 10,192 dollars in public funds to pay for public education yet the state still ranks at the bottom even 27 years after the Kentucky Educational Reform Act was passed in 1990.
Imagine, in a state that continues to be the laughingstock of America that even after an entire generation the situation regarding education hasn't improved. Here is the 2000 article from the BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/1028424.stm
Here is another nice post from an illiteracy organization working to cure the problem.
http://literacyinc.com/about-us/
10 States with the Highest Child Poverty Rates
Rank Number Percentage of Population State Rank
New Mexico 145,284 30.1% 50
Mississippi 211,466 29.7 49
Louisiana 313,926 28.6 48
Kentucky 247,780 25.0 47
Alabama 265,901 24.5 46
West Virginia 88,351 24.0 45
Arkansas 165,100 23.8 44
Arizona 378,800 23.6 43
South Carolina 248,595 23.0 42
Oklahoma 216,713 22.9 41
Well Looky, Looky, there is Kentucky again at 47th in the nation. At least they are not the worst in child poverty statistics in the country since Mississippi and New Mexico are at the top.
Here's another one about Kentucky and how white kids in Kentucky have the second worst child poverty rate in the country for all white children. So much for the racial superiority views of their parents and so called white kinfolk.
10 States with Highest White Child Poverty Rates 10 States with Lowest White Child Poverty Rates
Number Percentage Rank among States
West Virginia 74,514 22.9% 50th
Kentucky 168,727 21.7 49
Arkansas 76,609 17.4 48
Tennessee 151,320 15.6 47
Oklahoma 78,374 15.4 46
Maine 33,409 15.2 45
Mississippi 52,906 15.2 44
Idaho 48,696 15.0 43
Vermont 15,302 14.8 42
Alabama 91,666 14.6 41
Isn't it amazing that our Kentucky crickets probably have nothing intelligent to say why the White Trash state of the Ohio Valley regularly shows up in the bottom of all these rankings. Wonder why that is? I mean with all the family oriented and educated people in Kentucky to rank 49th in poverty amongst white children in embarrassing. Not to mention that you're 47th overall in that stat.
You know some of them good pillars of the community that leave their kids in poverty because they're too lazy to work or plainly too stupid to accomplish much of anything. All the while their state continues down the abyss and the governor whines that he has to cut the state budget more. All the while that will just increase the number of illiterate morons from Kentucky when education funding continues to get cut. Add in the fact that Kentucky can't even keep its state police with proper rifles, police cruisers, and equipment shows what a joke that Kentucky truly is. A state that has no real priorities and a listless and often unemployable population of mental misfits. I just love it when Kentuckians whine and cry about how their state is the best and how people are just plain picking on them. The proof is in the pudding as my old doctor said many years ago.
While we are at it, let's talk about child abuse in Kentucky of which it has exploded over the past decade or so. Even back in 2007 Kentucky was the worst state for child abuse and the statistics only got worse over the last decade.
Look at this nice piece from the Lexington Herald Leader from February/March 2017.
http://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article130535059.html
Some excerpts from that damning report about Kentucky and its governmental indifference and the lack of judicial oversight and discipline in order to correct abuse problems.
"However, the number of substantiated child abuse and neglect findings in Kentucky has steadily risen from 9,934 in fiscal 2012 to 15,378 in fiscal 2016, according to Community Based Services. At least 334 children in those cases died or nearly died from mistreatment.
And the heightened scrutiny has not significantly reduced how often children die or are severely injured despite the presence of state social workers. In its 2014 report, the panel said 66 percent of the 116 cases it reviewed had previous involvement by Community Based Services. In its 2016 report, issued at the start of January, that number was 59 percent of 116 cases — still more than half. Among the cases with state involvement, there was an average of 4.25 previous contacts, the report said."
Quite damning indeed when the abuse rate has increased by 35 percent since 2012.
Here's another excerpt regarding Kentucky and its crappy court system and judicial oversight in abuse cases. Too many judges are letting off the scum of society.
"The state’s court system proved no more effective at preventing tragedy. Fifty-seven percent of the cases the panel reviewed in 2016 had a history that could be tracked either through criminal proceedings or behind closed doors in dependency, abuse and neglect hearings. Each of those cases averaged 6.2 court contacts before the child fatality or near-fatality occurred.
Nearly half of the children’s deaths reviewed in 2016 were “potentially preventable,” the panel concluded. It cited many problems it found along the way, from bystanders who failed to report suspected abuse to social workers sometimes “screening out,” or rejecting, substantive tips that are called in, leaving children in danger. When the state does act to remove a child from a chaotic home, there might not be enough stable relatives or foster parents available to accept them."
The white trash state strikes again in that many of these deaths were potentially preventable which is doublespeak for saying that they really don't care about the children of Kentucky to start holding these lowlife bastards accountable that abuse kids. The best mention is when it says there might not be enough stable relatives or foster parents available. You think? Would you want most of the riff raff wrote me stupid comments to be entrusted with kids and the future of your state. If you're that stupid then you've been sniffing Krazy Glue again.
More about Kentucky's woes with child abuse and losers that are treated lightly and let off by the system.
"Kentucky isn’t making anywhere near the progress it should to keep children safe, panel members said in interviews. DCBS is struggling to monitor too many cases even as more families collapse every year into drug addiction, they said.
“We need a systemic, a top-to-bottom tightening of the safety net in this state, because too many children are continuing to fall through even when we’re aware of a bad situation,” said Ed Staats, a panel member who oversees more than 700 volunteers statewide through the Citizen Foster Care Review Board.
“I think if the public understood the system better, they would be a lot more concerned about it,” Staats said. “These cases — every single one of them is serious to somebody. And some of them are truly godawful.”"
Because the general public doesn't give a damn about kids so they continue to perpetuate the long standing cycle of ignorance, poverty, and drug abuse along with family abuse.
Kentucky isn't anywhere where it needs to be regarding this? Well no wonder when your state is the third world of America with a population that is amongst the bottom states in child abuse, elderly abuse, animal abuse, the economy, incomes, education, etc. As if its not a self fulfilling prophecy that Kentucky ranks in the bottom of just about all those categories.
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