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I went to a public high school that was unranked. What does that mean. Would there be a statistical difference between the best unranked school vs the worst unranked school? I want to know!

supersunken says

For those that live in other states, is it also true where you are?

In other states, if you buy a house in a good school district, you usually get a better house and a better environment to go with it. In the Bay Area, the only thing that matters are test scores, although quality of schools often does not go hand in hand with higher test scores. For example, it is a well known fact that Cupertino has some of the worst schools in the state, as far as quality of teachers, underfunding, etc, but has the highest test scores, which make for higher house prices.

APOCALYPSEFUCK is Tony Manero says

If your parents can't afford a million+ home, you're fucked.

Get used to eating the other survivors.

What if you're a vegetarian?

burritos says

I went to a public high school that was unranked. What does that mean. Would there be a statistical difference between the best unranked school vs the worst unranked school? I want to know!

Depending on your state, it can mean a lot. I went to a public 4-year college in NY. Some of my professors, who also taught at community colleges, frequently lamented how they had to fluck students who in their high schools were valedictorians because the education in these schools was so poor that even their valedictorians couldn't achieve passing grades in community college classes. In some states you have discrepencies so wide that certain public high schools have average students prepared for the ivy league while others can't even provide a decent enough education to have their best kids able to write a three page essay. The SCOTUS ruled in 1971 that a state only needed to provide a minimum standard of education to its students, not an equal education, so some public schools do an excellent job while others fail every kid in them.

burritos says

APOCALYPSEFUCK is Tony Manero says

If your parents can't afford a million+ home, you're fucked.

Get used to eating the other survivors.

What if you're a vegetarian?

Then you just become food for the Vulgarous Carniferous.

dunnross says

For example, it is a well known fact that Cupertino has some of the worst schools in the state, as far as quality of teachers, underfunding, etc, but has the highest test scores,

Shhhh ! That is absolutely right. But please keep this reality yourself. It is better that the immigrants keep focusing on Standardized Test Scores so that they confine their wealth-infused overbidding-up of rents and house prices to those Grade Grubbing Ghettoes, to prevent the rest of us from getting priced out of the other neighborhoods.

APOCALYPSEFUCK is Tony Manero says

If your parents can't afford a million+ home, you're fucked.

Get used to eating the other survivors.

So what you are saying is that your choices are:

1) parents get fucked by the realtard while purchasing a wooden box for 1+ million or

2) kids get fucked with a crappy education and end up being realtards.

I'll have the chicken please.

futuresmc says

Depending on your state, it can mean a lot. I went to a public 4-year college in NY. Some of my professors, who also taught at community colleges, frequently lamented how they had to fluck students who in their high schools were valedictorians because the education in these schools was so poor that even their valedictorians couldn't achieve passing grades in community college classes.

I can attest that this is true. I went to our local public school. I got A's in my history and English AP classes, yet I didn't come close to passing any AP tests that involved writing(aced the Calc test in an hour). My writing was so bad, I had to take a remedial writing class when I went to college.

I would say most schools in the US are ranked by test scores, which does not mean students are thought to think or really learn anything. Some students just happen to have the smarts and other students may have to study a bit more. There are good teachers and teachers that no one wants to have a class with. That's just how it's always been around here. The difference between the schools that have higher test scores vs schools with lower test scores is what happens in college.

Do you want to be the big fish in the small pound before you enter college or do you want to be the small fish in the lake? If you're among the smarter students that kind of pushes you to work harder and know the reality of what life will be like in college. If you're the top in your class cause the curve is low to begin with, you may be in for a rude awaking once you get to college.

Teachers now days are mostly effective for avg students like how it's always been. If a student is below average, there is not much a teacher can do and if the student is just too smart, again not much a teacher can do.