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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

I see it as this: I send my kids to school not only to learn how to read and write and do math, but also to develop socially. So if there's a negative interaction between my child and another child, what I want to know is, how was it handled, what lessons came out of it, and, of course, is my child okay?

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate.

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.