Carolyn,

To whom or to what are you responding? You’ve got me mystified.

I have never to the best of my recollection ever once suggested that schools should not be available, funded by public money and monitored and regulated to protect students and to prohibit discrimination, or that teachers should not be provided and paid well and respected. Have you checked you eyesight lately?

For the record, once again, I fully support free public schooling. They are an essential public service and should be providing much more in the way of service than they ever have in the past.

For the record: Compulsory attendance in those schools for either boys or girls is an abomination. There is no such thing as “mass education” or “compulsory education” and those terms are oxymorons. I have stated repeatedly that the paternalistic, unconstitutional, and counterproductive laws must be eliminated so that schools will finally become hospitable, civil, and safe places for children. The first thing they should be doing is training children to be discerning and to not read into remarks things which are not there.