[GenuineRisk]

Timm, the Gen Xers are now in their 30's. You need to throw out your old copies of TIME and Newsweek and get a new subscription- I think the last cover story on Gen Xers happened around 1994. When we were still just getting out of college. Which was over ten years ago. I myself have been gainfully employed in one way or another since I was 13.

Pgardn, I think while parents have a huge influence on their kids's success at school, I also think it's easy to disregard the fact that public schools are tied to property taxes and because of this, schools in rich areas will always have more money than schools in poor areas and will always perform better. If we want inner-city schools to perform better, we should abolish this inherently unfair system of school funding. Many of the schools here in NYC have been shut down at points due to being unsafe. And many of them have crumbling ceilings, broken bathrooms, water leaks, etc. I would find it hard to learn in some of the schools I've visited. I think there's only so much even a passionate, dedicated teacher can do, and only so much a poor parent can do when the school is unsafe, underfunded, etc. Today, our off-site theater program came back from a public school that had to be closed today because there was no heat. For the second time this week. No heat, no kids, no show for the actors here, and no education today.