Weekend Update - An Educating Line From Kipling 12/13

Cowboy State Politics · Dec 13, 2025 · 22m

Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem called, "The Gods of the Copybook Headings." It's all about propaganda. Most of what we hear about our so-called education system is exactly that. We are all told that we have to continue to pay high property taxes to pay for "our high quality education system." That's what Grady Hutcherson from the WEA called it. But is it really? Do our test scores really justify the hundreds of millions that we throw at Wyoming education?

The short answer is not even close. But you don't understand the reality of it until you look at the national NAEP scores as Superintendent…