What is going on everyone? Who wants to know what state to move to if you want
to better your chances of having an underachiever for a child I know I did
about 20 years ago when my kids started hitting high school age I wanted to
leave California and find a better State for education and I need to know which
ones to avoid my kids started off in Redondo Beach Unified School District in
California up until high school it's a great school district it's a nice place
for your kids to grow and learn great schools great teachers then you get to
the high school when my oldest was a freshman at Redondo Union High School I
realized something had to change I actually left the state and moved to
Oregon so my kids could get a better education back in those days you didn't
have a thousand websites grading schools you had to go by word of mouth really
that was the main thing I'd gone to a high school about four blocks away in
the next town over Torrance California I went to West Torrance high it was about
20 years earlier than my kids were hitting high school and even back then
when I was in high school Redondo High sucked I thought had gotten
better over the years I mean you can't continually just suck forever right but
a couple of people told me no that it was a good school now and it gotten
better one of those people being my cousin's ex-wife should have known
better right then it's still sucked and the summer after my son's freshman year
we were living in Oregon some of you might be in the same situation that I
was in if you're looking for a new state with good schools these videos for you
it's going to list the ones you should scratch off your list now as always when
dealing with something like this we're talking about averages I'm sure you
could find a couple diamonds in the rough in each state maybe a good school
district here or a great school whatever we're talking averages I'm in that
category I moved Oregon for better schools and
organs on this list and you'll see later that being said why don't just sit back
and watch my top ten worst states to educate your kids number 10 Idaho so we
start off at the Gem State Idaho has a lot going for it but schools wouldn't be
one of those things they have the 10th worst graduation rate in the country at
seventy nine point seven percent and if you read the comments section of
anything I've ever made about Idaho one would assume the only thing they're
teaching these kids in Idaho schools would be how to correct people on how to
save Boise while you poor English grammar they also wouldn't
notice that I switch back and forth by saying Boise and Boise there's a reason
for it which they have include into yet but we'll move on Idaho spends the
second lowest per student at seventy one hundred dollars a year I guess they're
saving money by not hiring English teachers or something and to all the
people in Idaho California and Libertad are not real words let it go
number nine Michigan four states east of Idaho you
have the Wolverine State Michigan Michigan as you know is home to two of
the worst cities the country has to offer Detroit and Flint over the last
decade or three Detroit has been in bad shape and really schools are the least
of their problems schools are ranked right behind too many people living in
poverty too many bail bondsmen roaming the streets and too many payday loan
locations on the streets basically Michigan is two or three more cities
like Flint away from being the next Mississippi the graduation rate in
Michigan is seventy nine point six percent but they still spend a good
amount of money per student with the 20th highest in the nation
number eight Arizona heading down to the Southwest you have the desert state of
Arizona and before you do stop typing I know it's not 100 percent desert good
portion of it is that's what it's known for someone always has to explain
Flagstaff to us okay we get it Flagstaff has some trees a majority of the state
is desert like I said deal with it Arizona spends the third-lowest per
student in the country and it shows the graduation rate is seventy nine point
five percent and here's a strange story coming out of the schools that I read
while I was researching this video now this doesn't really have dude their
education it just it needs to be shared an assistant football coach at Mountain
Pointe High School in Phoenix was leaking game plans to opposing teams for
three years nobody really knows why he just started sending out game plans and
not just the local rival football teams like he had a axe to grind against the
school he worked for you know and he's trying to get at him he was actually
sending it out to out-of-state teams that were maybe coming in town to play
them it was weird I don't understand that one at all and
happen like three weeks ago I don't know if there's a big investigation going on
with it or the police are involved but it's just weird
number seven Georgia hey look we're talking about a southern state on
negative list and it's not Mississippi number seven is Georgia on this list of
shame the Peach State is known for a lot of things including not as many kids
lasting all four years in high school as they'd like
only about seventy nine point four percent of the students get that piece
of paper oddly enough this is only one of two southern states on this list
normally when it's a negative or a worst of list the videos filled with southern
states not education a few of them are actually in the top five for the best
graduation rates Tennessee and West Virginia West Virginia's third highest
graduation rate in the country that's amazing now back to Georgia
they are the 15th lowest when it comes to per pupil spending Georgia's great
place with a lot of good things going for it they have some amazing
universities it's just when it comes to spending on the below university level
they're not really doing it and it shows a lot like some of the other states
number six Colorado and on to the Centennial state Colorado the nickname
for Colorado is the Centennial state because Centennial means 100 and
Colorado became the 38th state a hundred years and about a month after the United
States became a country not a lot of people know that and I get the feeling
that not a lot of people that have gone through the education system in Colorado
know that either only about seventy eight point nine
percent of the students graduate high school in Colorado putting them at the
sixth worst in the country Bravo Colorado they're also the
thirteenth lowest state when it comes to per student spending all that money
they've been making off those weed tax you think they'd be able to bump that up
a touch not Colorado
number five Louisiana and on to the Pelican state Louisiana our second and
final southern state on this list there's 4.6 million people living in
this state and a bunch of them haven't graduated high school they actually have
a lot of people that have never cracked the graduating fifth grade code either
only 78.6% of the students will wear that ridiculous hat at the end of their
four years in high school but a bunch of them will wear a hairnet for far too
many years after the year they should have graduated high school this might be
why Louisiana has some cities with some crazy crime rates one of the best things
you can do to lower a city's crime rate is to keep the kids in school kids that
stay in school and graduate have a better outlook on the future and more
opportunities they are also less likely to point a firearm at you and take your
stuff
number four Alaska and now for big jump downwards we have the great state of
Alaska it is a great state that is until you start looking at education numbers
then it looks more like the mediocre state only seventy six point one percent
of the students will graduate high school good thing for these kids Alaska
has a bunch of jobs that don't require a high school diploma now this is where we
get someone that explains that their job in Alaska they needed a bachelor's
degree or something like that and I don't know what I'm talking about I'm
talking about averages okay move on now here's where the last frontier gets a
little strange and yes that is their nickname the last frontier Alaska is
ranked as the fourth worst in graduation rates but they spend the fourth most per
pupil in the country I think somebody's getting hosed here not getting their
money's worth
number three Oregon and now for my current home state Oregon you remember
the place I moved my kids to for a better education that actually has a
lower graduation rate than the one I it's just weird anyway the thing is this
I left a bad school in California for a good school in Oregon like I said you
could find a diamond in the rough when you're looking for schools in a certain
state or city or whatever I wouldn't say my kids Oregon high school is a diamond
let's just say it's like a ruby in the rough not as valuable I don't know where
as the California high school was a turd in the rough the graduation rate in
Oregon is an embarrassing seventy four point eight percent that is sad come on
Oregon now they're middle of the road on per pupil spending at just under eleven
thousand dollars per year per student but yeah that that's seventy four point
eight percent that one's hard - that one's hard to take
number two Nevada coming in at number two is the silver state Nevada and that
is their official nickname I actually had an argument with someone who thought
it was actually Sin City state yeah that was the thing this was before everyone
had a smartphone so when I got home I emailed to her and she was irritated and
got all mad and said I've made it and I had to explain to her how to look it up
she looked up and then she never talked about it again she's irritating a couple
years later she convinced me my kids high school in California was a good one
on average only seventy three point six percent of the students entering high
school will graduate Nevada Nevada also is the ninth lowest in spending per
student they've been this way for a very long time and if you've watching my
other videos it's really strange that their schools look like prisons they
like have the same architect that designed their prisons it's really
strange
and number one New Mexico congratulations New Mexico you're slowly
becoming the new Mississippi if you thought all the other states on
this list we're in bad shape when it comes to education buckle up it's gonna
get ugly in the land of disenchantment only 71 percent of the students will
graduate high school that's right 71 percent they're almost two entire
percentage points lower than the next one on this list it's like they're
trying to not graduate kids it's really weird now they do spend almost 10k per
pupil every year so it's not like they're you know starving for money or
lack of funding they have some money for the kids but what's going on they now to
be honest the state has some serious hurdles when it comes to things like
poverty but come on man pull it together New Mexico by far is the worst when it
comes to education in the United States all right so that is my top 10 worst
states for education I hope you guys enjoyed it I hope you got some
information out it's kind of a bummer this list but you know it's got to be
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