<p>I currently dwell in the tedious, ''stupid'' state, FL. I believe its the lowest ranked state in the nation, education wise. My teacher recently have told me, students from the North have a more rigorous type of education. Is this true?</p>
<p>yes, but it mostly depends on where you live. According to Newsweek, there are a few schools in the top 30 from florida.</p>
<p>Well, I'm from NY & I recently to a summer program and like all my friends were other places around the country</p>
<p>I think it really varies school to school, but NY really does have one of the best school systems/smarter kids going there. Why? Is the water magical? No. It's just that it costs so much money to live that you need a well-paying job or at least ambition to get a well-paying job. You know how on those papers you always got those "percentile based on region, state, country", NY would ALWAYS have at least 2-3 % points, which is a lot on like the IOWA tests.</p>
<p>Also, NY has Regents, which are standardized subject tests (like SAT II's but easier and replace finals for NY students) and you need to pass 5 or 8 to get your HS diploma. So, in that respect, the fact that a certain curriculum must be done in each subject during a year, is more rigorous that "we'll see" approach. However, a lot of schools are really good, and of course, on a school-by-school basis, it depends on the individual teachers, etc. </p>
<p>As for other parts of the country, I doubt Florida is the worst. My friend from OH only had American History all four years of HS offered. ONLY AMERICAN HISTORY. And they didn't even repeat the course! When we were doing a lab (marine science summer program) I was checking over her lab for her and she spelled it "peach-ri dish". I asked her, and she had NEVER DONE A LAB BEFORE. She never took chemistry or physics-it was never offered, only earth and biology. She also goes to one of the best schools in OH, so take that for what it's worth.</p>
<p>I'm sure a state like Idaho is worse.</p>
<p>Tennessee.</p>
<p>That is all.</p>
<p>I recently moved from Florida to Illinois, and from my experience the education system is more difficult here. However, it seems like there were better students and teachers in Florida.</p>
<p>i live in new york and the public schools are all ok i guess. .. my chem teacher complains about how nys curriculum is so behind though and too easy.. so idk i guess there's problems everywhere.. but i'm happy with new york : ]</p>
<p>The NYC system, no matter how people like to complain about it, is actually rather good. I've also heard good things about Boston's schools. Us northerners just love hard-core schooling. Plus, if you think about it, we've got about 75% of the top-colleges too, but that may just have to do with the way things were colonized and stuff like that.</p>
<p>This sounds too familiar. I live in Florida also, and with all this stress on the FCAT, I really feel as if I would have been better educated had I lived up north, or even anywhere else...isn't Florida ranked extremely low in education anyway? I don't think that it was the lowest. Sometimes you sit back and think, do my A's equal "their" A's, am I learning only in spite of the system?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure states like Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas are way worse than Florida.</p>
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Tennessee.</p>
<p>That is all.
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<p>I hear you.</p>
<p>The PSAT/NMSQT semifinalist cutoffs are a good indication of this. It takes something like a 222 in NY or MA while a 204 will cut it in MS.</p>
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<p>I'm guessing your friend is from a rural school. This may have something to do with the taxing system in Ohio, but rural schools are vastly underfunded. My high school is one of the better rural ones, and it comes nowhere close to having adequate money. Biology labs are basically a joke. I remember trying to track down a paramecium on a terrible outmoded microscope last year. It wasn't a pleasant experience. In addition, the math books are 20 years old. Math doesn't change, but it still shouldn't say things like "x number of black-and-white computer monitors" or "write a BASIC program to calculate the foci of an ellipse." The Spanish textbooks are from the 70s, and all the people have afros and short shorts. These books have long since run out of lines to write names, and now we're writing up the side. The school just got rid of its last Windows 95 computer last year, while Windows 98 is still going in the library and several classrooms.</p>
<p>This really depends on the district. My district is filled with affluent students whose parents have college educations. My district also performs better on state exams than other local schools. It depends on the demographics. Motivated parents are usually the driving force behind a good education.</p>
<p>Back to the topic, yes, northern schools give better educations. If you remember American history, reflect on what happened after the Civil War. Then it becomes obvious why northern schools are better.</p>
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<p>Hawaii has horrid schools outside of privates.</p>
<p>I guess it does solely go back to history, JBvirtuoso.</p>
<p>I can tell you right now that Massachusetts has it good. Our school system rocks, in my opinion. I mean, everyone at my school hates it because it's butt ugly, kind of like Boston's City Hall, but there also isn't a single person who doubts its educational value.</p>
<p>My APUSH teacher told me New Hampshire is the armpit of education though... because they didn't have taxes at all until very recently. I'm not sure if he was cracking a joke or not, because he does that a lot without telling us that it's supposed to be a joke...</p>
<p>to the person who said that texas is much worse, there are actually some VERY good public schools here. as everyone else has already said, the rural schools do tend to be worse here. anyways we have our share of horrible schools, as im sure all states do (some states just have less), but we also have quite a few really good competitive schools.</p>