Is Wisconsin Fat, Drunk & Stupid?
Dean Vernon Wormer once said, "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life," but could it be Wisconsin's next tourism slogan?
FAT
According to the Centers for Disease Control, 61% of Wisconsin adults are overweight or obese.
DRUNK
We're all familiar with the University of Wisconsin Madison's reputation as the ultimate party school, but did you know that Wisconsin has about 340,000 licensed drivers with at least one drunken driving conviction, and that 45% of all traffic related crashes in Wisconsin last year involved alcohol? Still Wisconsin remains the only state in the nation to consider first offense drunken driving an ordinance violation rather than a criminal misdemeanor.
This qualifies as drunk and stupid. Maybe that's why Wisconsin was one of 6 states targeted by the Federal government for checkpoints over the Labor Day weekend.
And yeah I did, but then I grew up.
STUPID
Wisconsin has once again been caught dumbing down its academic standards in a thinly veiled attempt to skirt the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act. As if this and the abomination that is the Milwaukee Public Schools is not enough to make us look really stupid, Governor Doyle's Board of Regents has found new ways for Wisconsin to fail upward.
First the Regents decided to put diversity ahead of academic standards, now they want students to pay for diversity programs with a tuition surcharge.
3 Comments:
"First the Regents decided to put diversity ahead of academic standards..."
You are guilty of "dumbing down" the discussion. These standards have been applied to UW-Madison admissions for a number of years. During that time the median class rank and median ACT/SAT score for each class has gone up, not down, at Madison. How can this be, if what you say is true?
Do a little research before you pound the keyboard.
According to Hotline NO.
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/
Ok, my first visit to Above the Belt and I like it already. This will take a while as I am too fat to efficiently navigate the keyboard. But I'm not as drunk as usual for I noticed I'm fat. My stupidity must be contagious cuz Theodore Donald Kerabatsos accused you of not doing your research and yet he expects us to accept his statement without supporting evidence.
I hope fat, drunk and stupid doesn't become the tourism slogan cuz I don't tour here. I live here.
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