[Kevin M]

You're right, this isn't worth making personal and I'm not interested in that either. But some of your statements about the people in education were very cynical and not true. The low pay of teachers right now pretty much guarantees that only people who really care about the profession actually move into it. My wife has dual BS degrees that worth be worth twice as much in a private field, but she really likes being a teacher. So the suggestion that public education fails because of the personnel involved is just not true. The main problem is that public education is such a political football, and a lot of people who aren't professional educators get to influence the system.