Which indicates much greater systemic troubles than parent advocacy is likely to impact much on a time-scale that makes sense in terms of being a parent-advocate and trying to help YOUR child.

Sure, you could fight the good fight, lead that horse to water, shove the firehose, grab your wrench, replace the firehose, pick up the wrench, look for duct tape to affix the firehose...


well, you get the picture. It's likely to be a very long, slow, painful kind of process, and they aren't likely to thank you for showing them the light. That only happens in movies, I've discovered.


Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.