Understandable impulses

Everyone is all aflutter about the state of U.S. public edgimacation. As I've mentioned before, we homeschool but I don't want to talk about that too much. Instead I want to talk about this NY Times editorial.

Now, I've always understood that people are alarmed about public education nationally, but most people think their school is an exception. (Do note that qualifier–I didn't add it to up the word count of this post.) They (still refering to "most people") believe their teachers are d...