We get it...you're rightly proud of your daughter who has done tremendously well, and will continue to do so in the future, no doubt...but I am uncomfortably reminded, in reading your posts, that some parents live their lives vicariously through the achievements of their children...That being said, you do raise an excellent point, which is: we spend a lot of time examining what is  or is not, or may be, happening in the education system, and entirely discount the enormous influence of engaged parents on the academic success and choices of their children...