One of the reasons I don't have children is I knew that I'd have to be the solution to their education challenges. I just could not in good conscious contribute to or comply with a system that so produces mediocrity. I was fine and compliant as a teenager to such mediocrity. I could have skated through high school had my parents not many times intervened on my behalf. My dad often said to me "you won't be given an education, you have to take it." I understand that now more than ever. I don't think the state sponsored educational system even can offer education at all these days. It can't even be taken on the state level. It must be chosen through alternative means.