Monterey County Herald | 12/25/2004 | Parents play vital role in children's education: "But researchers have laser-focused on a hard truth: If you want your children to have a college education, you have to make it happen.

If students graduate from high school unprepared for college, it is technically the parents' fault. Every year schools ask parents to sign a form approving students' classes. Some of those classes could be 'foods' or remedial English -- which don't prepare them well for college. If you sign without checking, you're saying you approve of it."