Beaumont Texas least educated major U.S. city

[Texashiker]

For people who live in southeast Texas this should be well known. I am not from Beaumont, I grew up about 30 miles from there.

A new study of America's largest 150 metropolitan areas places Beaumont dead last in the list of most educated.

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/loc...ast-educated-major-U-S-city-study-5758815.php

This is what happens when you have a corrupt school system and a bleak job future. In the early 1980s shipyards that supported the economy of the Beaumont area closed down. Wages dropped and have not yet recovered.

Over the past 2 years beaumont schools have been in the news on a regular basis. There was even a fight with a local TV crew when someone from the school tried to block access to a school board meeting.

A news crew tried to enter a school meeting that was supposed to be open to the public. A school employee physically blocked the news crew from entering the room. There was some pushing and shoving. I think the police ended up filing charges against the lady.

http://watchdog.org/99886/confrontation-at-tx-school-board-gets-physical/

Then a purchasing director has been indicted for fraud.

http://www.panews.com/news/local_news/article_18293f42-3a8b-11e4-be70-53df6d3e9529.html

BEAUMONT — A former purchasing director for the Beaumont Independent School District has been indicted for theft related to her billing the school district for hourly work she never performed, Criminal District Attorney Cory Crenshaw announced on Friday.

Who pays the price? Not only the kids but the tax payers and the local economy. The school is pushing kids through the system who will be unable to enter the job market.

 

[slatr]

"early 1980s shipyards that supported the economy of the Beaumont area closed"

Just curious where these jobs/shipyards went. A coworker from the Houston area used to brag about all the shipping.

 

[OutHouse]

I thought port author would be lower than Beaumount.

 

[Texashiker]

"early 1980s shipyards that supported the economy of the Beaumont area closed"

Just curious where these jobs/shipyards went. A coworker from the Houston area used to brag about all the shipping.

Shipyards closed. A lot of those jobs went oveseas.

At one time a Livingston shipyard in Orange, which is around 30 miles from Beaumont, employed 20,000 people.

There was a Bethlehem shipyard in Beaumont which employed several thousand people. The shipyard closed, equipment sold, and most of the buildings on the land dismantled.

Detroit had the steel mills and car factories.

Beaumont had shipyards.

 

[smackababy]

That whole area has been in major decline since the mid 80s. Doesn't surprise me their school system is also crap.

 

[squarecut1]

Somehow I doubt that that area was the center of enlightenment and education even before the jobs went away

 

[Texashiker]

Somehow I doubt that that area was the center of enlightenment and education even before the jobs went away

Pretty much, yep.

Diarrhea is more organized than Beaumont. I do not mean the chunky diarrhea. I mean the squirts, have to install grab handles on the wall type of diarrhea.

There is a little area for entertainment downtown. Then the shopping district is way on the other side of town.

Part of the mall was damaged during a hurricane a few years ago and never rebuilt. While shopping malls is the woodlands are getting upgrades, the mall in Beaumont has not been upgraded in 20 years. It is depressing to walk into parkdale mall. The food court is sad, the mall is one story, no play ground for the kids,,,, no real reason to go there.

City counsel has done a terrible job at attracting any kind of non-retail development.

 

[Oldgamer]

For people who live in southeast Texas this should be well known. I am not from Beaumont, I grew up about 30 miles from there.



http://www.houstonchronicle.com/loc...ast-educated-major-U-S-city-study-5758815.php

This is what happens when you have a corrupt school system and a bleak job future. In the early 1980s shipyards that supported the economy of the Beaumont area closed down. Wages dropped and have not yet recovered.

Over the past 2 years beaumont schools have been in the news on a regular basis. There was even a fight with a local TV crew when someone from the school tried to block access to a school board meeting.

A news crew tried to enter a school meeting that was supposed to be open to the public. A school employee physically blocked the news crew from entering the room. There was some pushing and shoving. I think the police ended up filing charges against the lady.

http://watchdog.org/99886/confrontation-at-tx-school-board-gets-physical/

Then a purchasing director has been indicted for fraud.

http://www.panews.com/news/local_news/article_18293f42-3a8b-11e4-be70-53df6d3e9529.html


Who pays the price? Not only the kids but the tax payers and the local economy. The school is pushing kids through the system who will be unable to enter the job market.

I have family in Beaumont, and in Vidor Texas. I can tell you that Beaumont is considered (as you should know Texashiker) the armpit of America. Before Houston became a major city, Beaumont was initially slated to be the Big City back in the 60s. But most of the big jobs and expansion went into Houston. So Beaumont kind of got the shaft, but only because people there in that city are ignorant as all get out.

 

[Texashiker]

I have family in Beaumont, and in Vidor Texas. I can tell you that Beaumont is considered (as you should know Texashiker) the armpit of America. Before Houston became a major city, Beaumont was initially slated to be the Big City back in the 60s. But most of the big jobs and expansion went into Houston. So Beaumont kind of got the shaft, but only because people there in that city are ignorant as all get out.

I lived in Lake Conroe for a few years and spent a lot of time in the woodlands. Everything going up in the woodlands was amazing. You could catch a movie, go shopping, even go to a doctor, and just have to drive a few miles. The woodlands mall is great. I loved that place.

Beaumont on the other hand, like I said it looks like people sprayed the wall with diarrhea, said yep, that looks good.

I hate going to Beaumont. To do any kind of shopping I have to drive all over the place, and then traffic is terrible.

Want to go to a movie, academy, sears and fudruckers? Get ready to drive a couple of miles and go have to stop at each place.

 

[unokitty]

At least, they can't take the Big Bopper away...

 

[DrPizza]

For people who live in southeast Texas this should be well known. I am not from Beaumont, I grew up about 30 miles from there.

So, more or less, a suburb of Beaumont. That brings things into perspective... you grew up around a lot of uneducated people, and your environment often shapes a lot of your beliefs and opinions.

 

[Texashiker]

So, more or less, a suburb of Beaumont. That brings things into perspective... you grew up around a lot of uneducated people, and your environment often shapes a lot of your beliefs and opinions.

I am not going to disagree with that.

I grew up in a small town called Bridge City. At the time it was predominantly white and middle class.

One of my neighbors was a veterinarian, another neighbor was a bone surgeon, one of my buddies dad was a chemist for Texaco, another buddy his dad was a welder. My mom and dad held typical middle class jobs.

It was not a segregated area based on income or race.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

I guess that must be for the people who were born and raised in the area as the engineers/operators/rotating machinery specialist that work in the refineries, chemical plants, and Goodyear are quite smart and have degrees from some of the best engineering universities in the country (Texas A&M, Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, Perdue)

 

[Texashiker]

I guess that must be for the people who were born and raised in the area

Not sure what you mean?

 

[smackababy]

I guess that must be for the people who were born and raised in the area as the engineers/operators/rotating machinery specialist that work in the refineries, chemical plants, and Goodyear are quite smart and have degrees from some of the best engineering universities in the country (Texas A&M, Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, Perdue)

Not sure if serious. Best engineering university; couldn't engineer a bonfire correctly. Also, Notre Dame and Purdue are in Indiana. They are a thousand miles away, not that Georgia Tech is much closer to Beaumont...

 

[dmcowen674]

Beaumont Texas least educated major U.S. city

For people who live in southeast Texas this should be well known. I am not from Beaumont, I grew up about 30 miles from there.

No surprise. Just look at the crap Texans post including the OP and he even admits to it.

Too bad these people vote.

Repuplitards are easily able to brainwash these uneducated people to vote their way which is why the U.S. is in the crapper thanks to these people.

 

[squarecut1]

No surprise. Just look at the crap Texans post including the OP and he even admits to it.

Too bad these people vote.

Repuplitards are easily able to brainwash these uneducated people to vote their way which is why the U.S. is in the crapper thanks to these people.

On the other hand, the Democrats too get a lot of utterly uneducated people to vote for them. The country is worse off for that too.

It is naive to think there is a major difference between the two corrupt and self serving parties

 

[Texashiker]

No surprise. Just look at the crap Texans post including the OP and he even admits to it.

Too bad these people vote.

The southeast Texas area has been stagnated for probably 40 years. There is plenty of land along interstate 10 to build a water park, shopping malls, factories,,,, whatever.

Once you get past beaumont heading towards Houston there is nothing but rice fields.

Texaco refinery in Port Arthur at one time at the second largest refinery in the world, second only to a refinery in Saudi Arabia.

There is the port of orange, port of beaumont, port of orange, but they do not compare to the port of houston.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

Not sure if serious. Best engineering university; couldn't engineer a bonfire correctly. Also, Notre Dame and Purdue are in Indiana. They are a thousand miles away, not that Georgia Tech is much closer to Beaumont...

Texas A&M has the best petro-chemical engineering program in the US, many of their graduates work in refineries and chemical plants in the gulf region of the US. Other graduates from good engineering schools work in refineries and chemical plants in the gulf region as well.

http://www.toppetroleumengineeringschools.com/

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankings...ering-schools/mechanical-engineering-rankings

 

[Newell Steamer]

It's OK, the Texas education system will get these people up to snuff.

 

[Texashiker]

It's OK, the Texas education system will get these people up to snuff.

Texas education system sucks.

Before you say I am a good example, I hated school. My bad grades in high school were a direct relation to my resentment of being forced to do something against my will. My body my choice, remember?

College, I had a 3.6 gpa working a full time job.

The problem with beaumont is the school district is corrupt.

For 30+ years nobody has wanted to live in Beaumont. People with good jobs and who could afford to move relocated to smaller communities.

Beaumont is a result of upper middle class and rich yelling "abandon ship." The people who are qualified to lead the school district live in communities around Beaumont, but not in Beaumont.

 

[MrPickins]

No surprise. Just look at the crap Texans post ...

Fuck off, Dave.

 

[I Saw OJ]

I knew a guy who's last name was Beaumont and he was a dumb fuck.

 

[smackababy]

Fuck off, Dave.

With the exception of TH, Texan's posts are far better than anything Dave posts.

 

[OutHouse]

but only because people there in that city are ignorant as all get out.

yup, my wifes aunt lives there, neither one of us can stand her and she is banned from our house.