I'm in NM. I know several h/s kids and it's just like anything else. Good teachers are the key. Some parents are not committed, some are. Just like the PS!
When you have a child that requires elementary school for some subjects, middle school for others and high school for still another it becomes impossible to keep them in PS. Even the district agrees, it's just not feasible.

Maybe you are speaking of ND kids that you know, but I still don't buy it. Give us cold, hard published facts please, not rhetoric.

Shari
Mom to DS 10, DS 11, DS 13
Ability doesn't make us, Choices do!