It takes savvy parents to get their students into private or religious schools, voucher or no voucher.

That practice - widely known but not official policy - allowed savvy parents to place their children in top schools and avoid neighborhood schools they found less desirable.

The mothers who have advocated for the ban on peanut butter in their children's schools are obviously astute, politically savvy and concerned parents.

What you do if you are a savvy parent," Mr. Randolph said, "is you piece this all together.

"We're savvy parents; we recognize that there's more than a test score to a school," she said, adding that she liked Columbus's nurturing environment.

Still, the savvy parent can often make the system work.

In an interview last week, Deputy Chancellor Carmen Fariña said it was "a matter of equity" and complained about past manipulation by savvy parents.

Join the 'growing' number of savvy parents and celebrities who have declared the Maya Wrap the "baby product you can't live without"!

That will not surprise savvy parents.

Mr. Phillips's contentions that only "savvy" parents can get their children into private schools and that those students would do as well anywhere are false.