Show me any state where public schools produce college ready students! Parochial schools - YES - Public Schools -NO.
Texas does.
Our three were more than ready for college, all products of big city public schools. So were many of their friends.
They also had both public and private school friends who bombed college.
The qualifiers for success: a home emphasis on education, from childhood. Parental involvement. Taking the tough courses, honors over electives, and college tract, not just the minimum to graduate. Subsistence allowance, summer jobs, a realization early-on that material rewards come with hard work.
It didn’t hurt my 16-year-old to work digging ditches in summer in the Texas heat learning why he wants a college degree. He now draws an engineer’s paycheck.
Too much blaming of the schools. Parenting is the key, and schools shouldn’t do that.
It’s all available