My kids attended a "very good" school. It was a crap shoot. There was a large population of kids who were children of professors and doctors. Some kids did very

My kids attended a "very good" school. It was a crap shoot. There was a large population of kids who were children of professors and doctors. Some kids did very well, others fell through the cracks. There's only so much you can control through selection of a school, and other factors, and then it's a crap shoot. Possibly the only predicting factor I was able to discern is that highly disciplined, self motivated parents tend to have highly disciplined, self motivated kids. People in professions that select for those traits will have "successful" kids. One thing I noticed is that I had vastly more spare time as a kid -- enough that I was able to play music while also teaching myself electronics and programming. On the other hand my school paid very little attention to writing, and I think my kids got a lot better preparation in both writing and critical thinking.