I'm happy to clarify my position: I am actually for tougher standards.

I don't think we do our children a service by coddling them and only teaching them the things that are easy, fun, warm, fuzzy, whatever...

I'm just trying to make the point that you need to take personal responsibility for your own child's education. Don't assume that the school board, a school teacher, the Texas Legislature, or the U.S. Department of Education are going to do it for you.

The sad thing is that so few parents truely care about their own child's education that they don't take an active role in it.

To many parents are to lazy or stupid to even do the most basic things like reading to their child. They deserve and will get stupid children.

the most unfortunate part of that is that its not the child's fault.