I won’t speak for all of Metro Phoenix, but the public schools I went to were good. The only problem with the schools I went to was that you could make your schedule as hard or as easy as you wanted to (especially in high school). For example, students could choose to take Chemistry and Physics in their junior and senior years as I did, or they could take exercise physiology instead and only study science for three years in high school.

If students wanted to, they could even get away with not taking calculus. The bottom line is that where I went to school, students got out what they put in to it. That is where I think the AZ public school system goes wrong. I was able to graduate college and get into law school, and I never felt that being educated in the Arizona public school system held me back.