I never suggested or implied that education needs to be dumbed down or already is dumbed down, it's just being realistic! But seriously, you live in Canberra Onyx. Of course there are going to be people like you describe who can come into your kid's school and help teach reading. You have your kids at a bi-lingual school so it would be expected that they would be getting LOTE readers for home. But try doing that in a regular public school with 20 kids located 10 hours from Sydney in a completely white community. I'm just aware of the realities of putting it together. We don't live in a Utopian world.