LOL, as if they're that different.
This entire state is a sh--hole. This is the only place I know of where it's perfectly okay to have people that have NO BACKGROUND OR DEGREE OF ANY KIND in Education running school content programs, threatening to re-write history to support their religious beliefs.
Don't even get me started on how we had to fight and fight to get a transfer for our kid to get him OUT of a elementary school where literally there is ONE CLASS in every grade that is for English speakers, all the rest are taught in Spanish. So even though he suffered abuse from classmates he could not be moved to a different classroom because he's not part of the 89.7% hispanic population and they couldn't be removed from the school because it's their "right" to be there...
Even when 1st graders are threatening to bring guns to school. *roll. Eyes.*
Frax, your train left the rails at statement 1.
As a mid-40's native of Dallas, yes, Dallas and Fort Worth are vastly different, even though they are only 40 miles apart.
Dallas = east cost mentality
Fort Worth = a true 'western' mentality
The education system's style, and the utter stupidity in which it engages, is rampant in the south. Texas is a high population state, so it receives all the attention.
Sounds like, based on your statements, you live in the Valley. If so, yeah, it'd be a good idea to leave.
Guns & kids. It's everywhere, dude, just the most recent story was Texas. Give it a couple of weeks.
You want a place which is worse off than Texas when it comes to logic in pretty much all aspects of life? Go to Oregon, specifically the Portland area. At least Texas is predictably wacko.
I lived in TX, Dallas county only, 'till I was 28, then moved with my new, who also had never lived outside Dallas county, wife to the Colorado high country for a few years, Portland, OR, for a few, Vegas for four more, Austin for 8 months, and landed in Fort Worth...for work as well as family.
Will I stay forever? Nope. Going back to Colorado first chance I get, but you'll find there is almost unbelievable stupidity everywhere, you just have to figure out what it is.
Use the lame Texas educational system to teach your kid(s) to read and learn things on their own.
FWIW, my sister was a teacher, degreed in it, and after a few years, she threw up her hands in frustration. I'm glad, honestly, 'cause my niece and nephew will grow up able to actually think, and not merely parrot back 'facts', as presented by someone claiming to be correct.