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  Great news!  That must mean she has solved Arkansas' other big problems if she is attending to trivia like this, right?
  The five states with the highest poverty rates are:
  
  Mississippi - 19.6%
  Louisiana - 19.0%
  New Mexico - 18.2%
  Kentucky - 16.3%
  Arkansas - 16.2%
  
  Arkansas is 48th out of the 50 states for infant mortality.   I guess they thank god for Louisiana and Mississippi for keeping them from the bottom.
  I could probably go on, but you get the idea.
context: Im sure now that this has been taken care of getting Arkansas' education system out of the gutter will be her next priority. >
  
  Sigh…I’m 40 years old with 2 kids and have been taking 2 classes per term for 7 years now year round without stopping to become a high school history teacher. I unfortunately live in AR. I graduate in June and will be moving out of state to find a job. I just can’t stay under this as much as I feel like the state needs teachers who will fight this ignorance. But I have to think about how I want my kids raised and AR education is not it. These asshats  act like they own words and they don’t. But in a weird way they do. We have to fight this like the culture war that it is. But AR is ground semi zero for this hateful, uneducated intolerance >
  
  Please don’t go to Florida!  I just left with my 11- and 8- year olds for the same mess in the school. >
  
  Never!! Literally the last state I’d ever go to. I don’t even travel to Florida cause well…Fuck Florida >
  
  Fuck Florida. >
  
  Was Latinx actually on the government documents, or is this one of those "the problem doesn't exist but we're fixing it because we're desperate to look like we're fighting the woke" things? >
  
  I actually just filled out a government form with Latinx as an identifier. 
  Aside from that I doubt its on anything. >
  
  In Arkansas? >
  
  No sorry not specifically in Arkansas I cant speak to that. It was just the first time I had seen it ever on like an official document, I was surprised to see it. >
  
  My Latino friend thought it was pronounced Lahtinks and it was the best thing ever. he hates the term, and then hated it more when I told him how to say it properly. >
  
  I actually thought the same thing and for some reason Latin X is like twice as bad as Latinks to me >
  
  It really is :) I ended up getting my friend a shot and kept laughing and he just got more annoyed!
  Seriously, I'm on the left, but we gotta take an L on this one. It's a dumb term and will never catch on. >
  
  One suggestion for replacing Latinx with another, more pleasant-sounding gender-neutral term was 'Latine' pronouned lah-teen. I too read Latinx as 'lah-tinks' which rhymes with sinks, inks, and stinks. Were most people of Latin descent really clamoring to replace 'Latino' or 'Latina'? Some have suggested that the term was pushed more by white academics than the Latin community itself. >
  
  Genuinely curious... Why does it not work to just use 'Latin'? >
  
  Good point. 'Latin' would be another alternative for a more euphonous and less contentious gender-neutral term.