I traveled around the US to practically every major city of the United States selling software to middle/high schools. The quality of education is excellent in

I traveled around the US to practically every major city of the United States selling software to middle/high schools. The quality of education is excellent in certain places and abysmal in others. You can probably guess the correlation between school quality and the wealth of the surrounding neighborhood. Even if you were to tackle the issue of vast economic inequality, you would still need a new generation of parents who understand how to nurture an academic culture within their home and community. It is irrelevant how helpful our education software was to the classrooms who implemented it - it requires students who value education and who show up at school with food in their stomach and without the all-encompassing stress of what awaits them at home at the end of the day.