Unless you have worked in the Orange/Osceola school system you probably would not know the problems. The reality is A-rated schools are not always what they appear to be.
Smarty, what is your connection (other than a google search) to these Florida schools and why do you disagree with my comment?
BTW: I personally know the county superintendants in Polk and Orange counties.
I can't profess to know much about public high schools except that they weren't too good when I was a kid (thirty years ago), and while they appear to have gotten more layers of bureaucracy slathered on, the cirriculum is still watered-down and too overly-PC for anything of any great challenge or value to be learned there.
My kids are still at the elementary stage, and both are in the gifted programs there ("gifted" = standard cirriulum, imho). One more year to go, and if my oldest boy, age 10, can keep his grades up, he will be going to Pine View in Sarasota, which is indeed an excellent and very challenging place to be. My daughter will follow a year after him, at the rate she's going.
But my kids are lucky -- they are naturally smart (must be my wife's genes $;-), and have a solid mom and dad backing them up and pushing them forward day after day. For kids lacking that, from what I have personally observed, the "standard" public school educational fare is pathetic in the extreme.
“Smarty, what is your connection (other than a google search) to these Florida schools.”
Other than my brother living there for 50 years and it being a second home, none.