[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I guess parents are involved here too, so I am not seeing it as THAT broken, ie, not too late JenB.

I agree that it is not hopeless, but would not put a child of mine in the inferior institutions that do exist. If I found that my child's school system was nearly as good as the one I went to, I likely would send my child there, if not, not.

[JenB]

Sounds like the one you went to is closer to a British "public school" than to our kind. I wish I'd learned Latin. I know tons of roots, and I can get the gist of a paragraph, usually, by deducing what the words must mean... but it would be cool to speak it.

[HairOfTheDog]

If I found that my child's school system was nearly as good as the one I went to...

Well we all know it will never be as tough as it was when you were a kid, you know, the 10 miles in the snow, up hill... both directions....