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I appreciate your efforts and please don't stop. I was educated in public schools in MI up through the 1970's. Then I graduated from a public university. Wow, I was pretty ignorant of what didn't know!

Thankfully I moved to TX, got married (a bit less thankfully) and had a child (very thankfully). The schools in Austin have been surprisingly excellent. I also lived in Baton Rouge and my son's kindergarten and 1st grade were as good as any private school in the area.

My only problem at this point is feeding the union beast. Where I've lived so far, the teachers and schools have been light years ahead of what I suffered through, but the trajectory is not healthy.

My criticisms are generalized, of course. Yes, there are good schools here and there. Often, rural schools are far superior to those in the inner city (and often just as black) because they still have a work ethic in the country, and they still have God.

Part of my despair this week is that Romney's words on education will go for nothing, now, and I will never in my lifetime see the dream I have long had, of widespread freedom of kids FROM government schools via vouchers and tuition tax credits. Won't happen now. Very little of what I dream for will happen now. The world seems very bleak.