What is it like being an alumni of a school that’s underfunded or neglected? Even if the school is “good” (as in well funded or private), does the learning environment reflect that? Also, the dark side of American schools (shootings) dampens peace of mind for parents since at any given moment some gun wielding individual can storm in murdering those inside (students, teachers, custodians, etc.)
A funny thing when I went to college. I was sorta funny. Had like half accelerated courses and half not. I could get sorta screwed in the accelerated because in the normal courses I was A/B with A being pretty likely and in accelerated I was B/C with C being likely. So because of the rules an A was a 5, a B was a 4, and a C was a 2 grade point average wise. Anyway that is all sorta an aside. When I got to college I started out strong but semester by semester was burning out. You could sorta see a semester to semester drop such that like my first semester was all A+ and by the time I graduated I had a D or two and boy did I ever need to graduate while my gpa was still decent. I had this friend and he had screwed around in high school so he had to come in as a PE major as he did not have the gpa or test scores to get into some of the more prestigeous colleges at the university. He worked his ass off and was just getting his paces. Eventually he transfered into my major and as we got near the end we compared transcripts. His was the opposite. His grades got better and better each semester. So in the end I had some of those fancy classes and came out at a pretty respectable rank and a pretty respectable high school. He came out of a typical high school (could not claim highly ranked or anything) at a pretty typical level. We ended up with the exact same degrees at the exact same institution for our bachelors with pretty close to the same gpa.