Florida's public schools are not awful, they are not good enough to be awful.
Seriously, Colier County is opposite Broward and Dade. It is on the west side. It is a red county where much single home developement has occured.
Yes, my wife and I (and later, our kids) used to go to Collier County (Marco Island) every Spring, in late April.
I'd never move there. Well, maybe to retire.
Notwithstanding Collier being a distinctly "red" county and despite one crusading school board member, the local education establishment has the same ideology here as elsewhere.