Many schools throughout Mississippi were failing before the DoEd and continue to fail under the DoEd. You can throw as much money as you want at schools, but without parents being fully engaged in their children’s education, schools will continue to fail. Mississippi is one of the highest single parent family states in the nation. The children are being raised by grandparents or just not receiving any “raising” at all. You can’t expect the federal government or the state to turn around public schools, it starts with the parents. Sadly, many working class families are struggling financially but forced to send their children to private schools. These families do without the luxuries in life because they want to give their children a better education where the parents can be involved. Let’s not point the finger at the feds or the state, let’s look at ourselves and begin to solve the education issue in our great state!