[David]

My overspending comment was of course sarcasm.

As far as which is more important, parents or teachers: I forget which one of the books I just finished, Factfulness by Hans Rosling or Thank You for Being Late by Thomas Friedman, covers this but they review studies on education and found that teachers are the overwhelming key to better education. Sure bad parents are a big problem but I think that affects kids as they get older. If kids have good teachers from the beginning, even a bad parent can't derail them as bad as a bad teacher from the beginning can.