The vast majority of parents work hard at making sure (their children) get an education. There are some people who aren't as responsible about it.

One of the challenges is that when you get scores like that in the upper 80s or better, improving on that is increasingly difficult.

I gave my children what my parents didn't give me, and that's stability. I'd like to give that to my youngest child, and I think it's extremely unfair for you to take that away from him.

My parents placed a high priority on education of their children, as their whole
generation has, ... They saw the value of the opportunity that it presented to
my generation.

It's not the education; it's the social issues in the schools. The children are troubled there. The parents are troubled. There's no cure in sight.

The majority of people there could have easily been my parents, or they were elderly. Nick and I were by far the youngest people there, besides the workers.