WL>  LP> I personally think the solution lies not with parents, not with
WL>  LP> teachers, but with students.  Unless & until students decide 
WL> that
WL>  LP> education is an important commodity, I can stand on my head & 
WL> spin,
WL>  LP> parents can check homework, the school can spend thousands of 
WL> dollars
WL>  LP> & nothing will happen.
WL> 
WL>  Bravo!  While schools and teachers and 
WL> curricula are
WL> all necessary and important, I think this is the part most in need of
WL> improvement right now.
    It's naive to expect students to value K-12 education when they can see 
the economy does not.
    When HS grades count for little in admission to most colleges (in part 
because colleges find them unreliable or inflated), when most colleges 
approach or are open-admission, students cannot be faulted for just observing 
that working their butts off and taking hard courses in HS does not pay off.  
Students will decide that education is an important commodity only when there 
is a payoff.    
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