You contradict your name "Logix". It is your responsibility to ensure that the education they are being offered, is in turn being learned. It is not the schools responsibility to ensure the education of each child. It is the schools responsibility to ensure the "offer" of education for each child. If your child is falling behind because you are not spending the necessary amount of time focusing on their education, that is YOUR FAULT...not the schools. I don't feel sorry for you a bit. My kids get home, immediately address their homework until completion, and then they can continue on with their day. Our days can be hectic at times, but the necessities get done first. If you are not willing to do that, than you are not accepting responsibility for your kids, opting to dump a portion of rearing your children on your kids on someone else. Your attitude perpetuates the problem "Logix", not the solution. It is also exactly the attitude that got us worthless programs like "No Child Left Behind", which does little more than stunt the potential for kids to get ahead.

You are under the assumption that a 15 year old would be allowed to attend school with a 5th grader. In ancient times, like the 70's and 80's, when a child proved they were not willing or capable of continuing on with their age group, they were not sitting in a 5th grade class at 15 years of age. They were identified, and placed in programs better suited for the learning ability, or the lack thereof. It is the teachers/schools responsibility to affectively offer the required education. It it the responsibility of the student and the parents to ensure that the student optimizes the education he/she of offered. Mom and Dad: if you child can't read to grade level, don't blame the school or the teacher....blame yourself. I believe there should be some consequences for poor performance. It is how the real world works, and kids/parents need to learn that if they will not be rewarded for under achieving. At least with something like this, we can stop educating to the lowest common denominator, and give kids the chance to advance at a pace that better suits their potential, as opposed to "no child gets ahead".

Why not take it beyond extra-curricular activities. Allow for one or two children to attend public school at the present rate of taxation, and place a head tax on each child that attends after the first one or two slots have been populated. The cost of education should lie squarely upon one of two agencies. 1. Government - remove that pretty programs that do not benefit the public as a whole, and allow the community to make up the difference when those programs cease. Pour that money into education, highways, and protection of the people. 2. Parents - If Government will not cease to fund every program designed to assist a small portion of the population, those that would opt not to take care of themselves, and those programs that do little more than make us feel good about ourselves, than head tax for education so the burden of cost falls upon those that burden the system.

Perhaps he will play himself into a earlier late round draft pick....but I doubt it (assuming he is drafted at all). I figured Pitta would go in the draft either way and not risk the injury of a senior game. I guess not.

One foot in the grave? She looks like she was fully interred months ago. I guess she could be a zombie. A perfect face for an anti-drug campaign for sure.

Interest only loans coming due for principal payments?