[JavaBrewer]

My kids are both in High School now. But when they were in elementary school, highly ranked (why we moved there) public school, I think the biggest threat was getting bad teachers. Parents need to be very involved with the entire process. Doing so will provide insight into what teachers to avoid. Seems that every grade had 1 super star teacher, 1-2 who were 'good', and 1-2 to absolutely avoid.

The wife and I decided she would stay home with the kids (at a big hit $$) those early years. She volunteered at the elementary school and was a teacher assistant 2x a week. Our kids always ended up with the teacher we wanted. It was sad to see how terrible some of those teachers were.