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.
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Very good post!!!!
Great post, and love the tag.
Nicely put.
Mine is still in middle school, but sons and daughters of friends of ours from church have recently graduated from the high school my daughter will be attending starting in 2012. All have all sorts of scholarships to some of the better universities here in Virginia. I also know a few closer to my daughter's age (also same church) that will be lucky to get out of high school at the rate they are going.
They get out of their education what they put into it.