I'll also add that my husband is in a high tech field. Nearly ALL of our neighbors are from India. Why? It's because we simply DO NOT have skilled enough workers to fill these high tech positions.

If you look at the future of education, if you listen to people like Bill Gates, they all say that our education system is not meeting the basic requirements to fulfill the jobs of the future. For us, it makes sense to help our kids get a leg up. They can sooner find out what they are good at, where their passions are, and what they want to do with their lives than a kid who spends 15 years in the public school system, still doesn't know what to do, spends too much money on college, and then is STILL clueless about what they'd like their career to look like.