[HiTech RedNeck]

And... the kid could have done much worse than to contact Sowell.

[jazusamo]

Correct...Sowell should be required reading in all middle schools and above.

[Huntress]

I agree with both of your posts. I hope Dr. Sowell didn’t discourage the kid who wrote to him. Any fifth-grader who knows who Dr. Sowell is and wants to write to him has a lot on the ball. Most of kid’s classmates probably wrote to people like Tom Brady or Britney Spears.