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Maybe you're right and grades don't always reflect knowledge learned, but if kids are kept busy doing homework and exercising their brains, they're not doing drugs and committing mindless acts of violence. Every time I see that TV ad with the teenager mother of two (by fifteen):she's saying now she wants to be someone, I want to weep. And the boy who casually lists past missteps with the law that earned him six months in 'juvie' (that's enough to make your skin crawl),(nobody cared if he went to school, in fact he repeated 8th grade twice), and now he's back in school and he's happier. At least he 'thinks' he's happier. Somebody'd better point out that the face in the mirror is the only person you can depend on. Have some self esteem, do the best for that person, and you'll be okay.