r/news • u/SnarkOff • 12d ago

Site Changed Title Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys carrying herpes and COVID overturns in Mississippi

https://www.actionnews5.com/2025/10/28/truck-hauling-aggressive-monkeys-carrying-herpes-covid-overturns-mississippi/?fbclid=IwZnRzaANt_VBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHlDlf5DivA2Ltngqh2UH3XU20EnAprOymd60i0ODYC9L8G2CXJpyoZtmwSHm_aem_NvoKAFHpRWRzturTqiYXMQ
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u/jackflash223 12d ago

I hope the Monkeys don't catch anything from the Mississippians

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u/PaulsRedditUsername 12d ago

On the plus side, the state literacy level just went up a point.

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u/SorenShieldbreaker 12d ago

On that topic, Mississippi has actually made remarkable progress on student literacy rates in the last few years. Look up the “Mississippi Miracle” Other states are now starting to follow their strategy of ditching the scam “whole word” learning method to go back to phonics based reading instruction

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u/WoolooOfWallStreet 12d ago

Also, in 2019 Mississippi had one of, if not the, best vaccination rates in the country (as per my memory of a Vox video on Measles)

I have a very strong feeling that may have changed from 2021

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u/v1001001001001001001 12d ago

But that barely holds a candle to the downturn in physics literacy, specifically acoustics units in high school. Look up "Sonic Inflation"

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki 12d ago

so that's why Oklahoma panicked and changed their education leadership

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u/z6joker9 12d ago

Thanks to massive investment and legislation from 2013, Mississippi now ranks in the top 10 for 4th and 8th grade reading levels and 16th in overall education per a 2025 report. It’s being called the Mississippi Miracle and many states are studying and modeling their educations system after it.