(300Busa @ Nov. 18 2006,17:43) Do you think people wait in line for days to attend parent conferences at their children's schools? A lot of them do not bother even showing up. It is no wonder that we have children in seventh and eighth grade who are reading at the second-grade level. Their parents' priority is to make them into couch potatoes who cannot read or function in a job. Our country is in trouble. People are totally out of touch with reality.