<i>I am not saying it&#x27;s sufficient not sure how you got that idea.</i><p>You were the one who wrote, in the higher-level comment you made,<p><i>The key to succesful education is involved parents. It&#x27;s really that simple.</i><p>Now that we have agreement here expressed by each of us that parent involvement is important, but not the whole story of what&#x27;s important in education, how about let&#x27;s discuss the specific content of the article submitted for discussion? How could an involved parent, for example, CHECK whether or not a teacher in the friendly local public school has learned enough about reading instruction to know how to distinguish phonemes from graphemes?<p>I&#x27;d be happy to see other readers&#x27;s comments on my own top-level comment in this thread (it is &quot;below the fold, I think), in which I give examples of differing practice in the other country I have lived in, Taiwan. The schools there did an amazing job when Taiwan was still a developing country of providing good instruction with very limited resources. One big aspect of that was better teacher training.