<p>@mathyone </p>
<p>Just read your last post. It is sad that your school district would haul the family to truancy court when their son is working on an enormous possible breakthrough in pancreatic cancer detection. The world might not have lost someone like Steve Jobs if such a cheap test were routinely available.</p>
<p>You sound very cynical and bitter. I don’t know why. I believe kids are able to accomplish unimaginable things if given the right encouragement. Does a kid with the talent of someone like Yo-Yo Ma playing Carnegie Hall also make you upset? If the kid had to miss school to play various venues, would that be okay? If the mother had to drive him/her to lessons in say NYC would that be all right? If both parents were accomplished musicians and the father gave his child extra lessons is this somehow cheating? I have trouble following exactly what it is that you are upset about but it seems to be just about everything.</p>