I don't discount her knowledge of this at all! However, I have had a stake in this for years as well, albeit not as personally. Both my father and mother were teachers, and I was intimately involved in their eventual leaving of the profession; not to mention, where a lot of the hell of the regulatory bullshit comes from is Ross Perot's "reforms" in Texas, which has one of the craziest public schooling systems ANYWHERE, and was taught by a lot of activist teachers who just loved to expound on everything.

So what I'm saying is, I don't discount what she's saying at all, but I'd appreciate the same consideration; I may not have had a personal dog in this hunt, but it's one of my major sources of political interest. The sanctity of public education is very extremely strong with me.