[Echo-chan713]

well and the fact that it's not the state's fault for low grades in school (unless it has to do with budgets, but that the school district's responsibility). there's factors into it I can name a few (in my opinions, I have not researched it...yet):

1. Students/kids: the students are the main factor on the schools performance, if the students have the low grades on the tests then it reflects on the school. If they can learn in their own way, not just one way since different people learn differently.

2. Teachers: There are two types of teachers in the country the ones that want their kids to succeed or the ones that just don't care because they know that they won't get fired after their tenure. If teachers don't teach their kids then the kids don't learn.

3. Parents: Back in the day when if their child gets a bad grade then the child gets punished. Now it's a country of blaming everyone but themselves, it's now if the child get a bad grade they take to the teachers yelling at them for giving their child a bad grade. Parents are the vital key into raising their children properly in order to become a tax paying citizen, if the parents are fighting constantly, then it's going to reflect on the child in a bad way such as fights in schools.

3. The district: Each District handles their school and situations differently than other districts do. Such as: tests, learning procedures, schedules, health, and credits. Where I grew up it's a tiny district so they didn't have the quality education and money processed but they are willing to spend thousands of dollars on things we don't need like dances and police officers. I understand in a ghetto environment when it's necessary but to me it's a little over the top.

And their are districts that have social workers in the schools; their purpose to keep the cased child safe and to help them succeed by any means necessary, my school had councilor but didn't deal with the students situations and helping them it was more on the lines of hanging out with them and chatting about random shit instead of helping the child it was more sugar coating the problem.

4. State: Each states have different laws under the 10th amendment on many things and especially schools on how they will distribute the budgets via property taxes and what are the required academics each student needs until they are qualified to graduate. And each state varies in test score recommendation such as if a student takes a standardized test in Maryland scored a 58 then it's not qualified but then the student moved to Delaware and takes the same exact test and gets the same score of 58 to Delaware it's accepted.

In New York I would have needed 4 years of the major subjects (Math, Science, History, and English as well as 4 years of P.E), in Colorado I only needed 1 year of P.E for the whole school year, 2 Years of History (1 year Government that has to be taken in Senior year and 1 year in US History; geography doesn't count), 2 year in Science (1 Biology and another year of science of student's choice), 2 years in "English", and 1 year in Math and then multiple semester elective courses and then their are some more required classes but I'm only listing out the majors.

So in the end my mom doesn't understand the system in Colorado than New York in a span of 30 years.