Fighting education fanatics

Fighting education fanatics: Column:
"The people running these schools are providing considerable evidence that they are not especially bright.
Or, at any rate, that they have little respect for American culture.
And the way they back down when these cases comes to light indicates that they know they're out of step with the public.
Which raises the question: 
Why are we giving them so much money? 
If public schools are places where kids can be persecuted for being kids -- especially if, gasp, they're boys acting like boys -- what's their claim on our support?
Increasingly, parents are exiting public schools for private schools, charter schools, online schools or homeschooling. (Hey, the guy who sold Tumblr to Yahoo for a billion dollars was homeschooled.)
This steady stream of stories involving what can only be called institutional child abuse can only speed that trend along.
And once large numbers of parents are no longer sending their kids to public schools, how long will the tax money keep coming?
That's the question I'd be asking myself, if I were running public schools. 
The people who actually are running them, however, seem to be oblivious. 
Fanatics usually are."