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Thank you for your incredibly detailed response.
The way a writer knows that he's covered his subject well and struck a nerve, is by the responses. My editor at United Press International also thought this was my best and most provocative column to date.
It's danged near impossible to hit the mark every week. It is sufficient to try for it every week and to succeed at least once a month. Thank you for confirming by your passionate response, that this was this month's success story.

Congressman Billybob

As the man formerly known as Al Gore said, Buy my book, "to Restore Trust in America"

I agree - fporetto's response to your excellent column was also excellent.

While there are a lot of things wrong with the education system (my husband likens it to a prison environment, with its own internal culture and rules), ending the compulsory requirement would be a good start to fixing it. Children who have no interest in education and whose parents have no interest in education do not belong in school with those who want to learn. Those who chose not to go to school can actually become educated later in life (as many of those who've graduated as illiterates already do), and they would no longer be disrupting everyone else. Then, we need to make our school boards allow teachers who come from other careers instead of from the indoctrination, I mean education colleges.

I've read most of Charlotte Thomson Iserbyte's book; it's kind of scary that so much of the social engineering is entrenched at the federal level.