Your point is so flawed and ridiculous that I am actually frightened for you.

Parents didn't ever go through school to learn how to teach so how can you expect them to be able to?

If I'm a lawyer and you're a doctor and you kill my kid in surgery, you can't jsut say "I'd like to see you do better", because I wasn't the one who went to school for seven years training to be a doctor.

It's your job, I'm paying you for it, do it right.

Is it that ridiculous for a parent, required to send their kid to school for ten years and paying thousands into the education system each year, to want a good education in return for their child in return for their time and money?

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From a completely distanced economic perspective, Truth, that works. Unfortunately you have to consider the number of kids in school, the number of teachers, the pay of those teachers, and other such factors. In all reality, it is not likely that your kid is going to get a good education if you do not take up some of the burden yourself.

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-opening from Tales From the Darkside

You're entirely correct, as I find you often are; I was merely adressing the original topic of this post and suggesting that the taking up of that burden should all upon higher taxes or education reform, not this radical notion of "see if you can do it better".

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Thank you for the compliment.
I think Mike was just trying to be illustrative, not seriously suggesting that people try to do better. It is common that parents expect schools to teach their kids to be winners with no effort on their part and further more lash out at teachers over their kids failure to succeed, whether or not it is the teacher at fault. I think that is who he was addressing.
But we'll never know. Mike left us.

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"Man lives in the sunlit world of that which he believes to be reality. But unseen by most is an underworld, a place that is just as real... but not as brightly lit... A DARK SIDE!"
-opening from Tales From the Darkside