The education problem, for most parents, is out there somewhere. This is probably inevitable in a universal, socialist school system. In the end, the real losers in our leveled education system are the ones at the very top and the ones at the very bottom. MCAS results by town will illustrate the lower-end problem, that failure is not evenly distributed geographically. Parents who do not want their children's achievement limited by a mediocre system get their children out if they can.
Poor parents have their children held hostage by the system.
Instead of wasting more time, money and words trying to reform an unreformable public system, we should do all we can to help these parents get their kids out.