The public school system failed me. It let me drift through unchallenged and without direction, fueling the idea that my talent in artwork would carry me through life. Granted, my parents could have expressed more concern as well. I worked many jobs and eventually fought my way from the shop floor into an engineering department in the manufacturing industry. Im still vastly underpaid for the programming, imaging, and and automation skills/knowledge ive developed but this appears to be my lot in life. Do not trust the system to prepare your children. I won't and don't.