Thank you for sharing this -- and for writing it. We're badly in need of a collective "squid to the face" ( a perfect term!)...and more good teachers, like the one you seem to have had.

Thanks, Dave. My teachers - every single one of them at my super-rural, public school were fantastic. Amazing what those underpaid public servants did while having a department of education with federal oversight, isn't it? And my own mom was one of 'em, go figure.