Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science

And for attrition, most of it's eighth grade.

You fail out because of English, much like MSMS.

The math is tough.

The English is just a barn burn.

mean, I've succeeded at everything I've done.

It was more a matter of finding what I was meant to do.

And after I'd been teaching here at MSMS for a couple of years, I went home and one of my good high school buddies is the late federal judge, John Jarjula, who is from Gulfport.

And I saw John in a store and he asked what I was up to because I hadn't seen him in several years.

But it's usually for friends and for charity stuff and for good kids in the community.

Tell me a little bit about the MSMS.

OK, so I'll just pretend like a lot of folks don't know what it is.

We're the Mississippi School for Math and Science.

And that's

probably the biggest misunderstanding or misnomer.

That's a junior level, uh, word at, uh, MSMS is that it's just math and science.

Uh, you have, uh, Unequivocally, the best history teacher in the United States there and the best history staff.

And the number one, both the ASN, which is your Associates of Nursing degree, Bachelors of Nursing degree, and the RN to BSN program that we have at our Tupelo campus, those programs are number one in the state of Mississippi.

And outside of Mississippi, because sometimes I have to explain this when I say, like, Mississippi School for Math and Science, which is housed at MEW, clearly the number one school in the state of Mississippi, but quite often is in the top 20 or 30 of the country.

The most interesting part about that to me is that it's a little chronically underfunded public school in Mississippi, and it's going against boarding schools in Connecticut that have $100 million endowments, that sort of thing.

So I can make a similar comparison to what I know about nursing schools.