[austin-cheney]

For me I received excellent education because my parents picked the right geography to live in. I attended what might be the best public school system in the US before it became inundated with extreme wealth.

I have found that I have gotten through life well enough by skills and intelligence alone so I never placed much consideration into academics. This has proven exceptionally disappointing as it directly determines your peer group. As such I instruct my own children to balance good grades from more challenging classes against making proper life decisions. I am quick to remind them that as high school draws to a close they are on their way towards being cut off from their parents. That reality is as equally challenging and foreign to them as it is to my spouse. Nonetheless, if you want your children to be worth anything push them to have initiative and be competitive.