I’m a Brussels sprouts before the cheesecake kind of guy, so let’s get the bad news out of the way first: You’re responsible for your children’s education. It doesn’t matter what school your son or daughter attends—a mediocre public school, the best private academy in the city, or homeschool—you’re the one who bears the weight in the end: the CEO of Operation Education.
Yes, you can blame the teachers and the curricula if your son enters eighth grade unable to read “Tom Sawyer” or if your high school daughter can’t compute 8 times 30 without using her fingers, and certainly all those years your child sat in a classroom may then appear a desert of time and resources. And yes, the school is at fault for that failure.
