So wait...

... we are being told that the attitudes and actions of a parent have a massive impact on the academic development of their children; more so than the school they go to and the amount of money the parents have. Who knew?

"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.” - Andrew Carnegie /via Billy Blofeld

 So ambition counts for more than money, I could have told you that for less cost than those studies.

//Sorry to any regular readers (however unlikely that people read our ramblings), I made a promise to myself to stop fisking Ritchie (because shooting fish in a barrel gets boring after a while) and I haven't been able to summon up the anger or sarcasm that usually fuels my rants (because sarcastic and/or angry posts are much easier than well thought out pieces).  So Sorry//