Article transitions from book ban to funding needs before acknowledging past practice. Slate and chalk educated generations of poor, rural Americans. Today, everybody is bewildered that children are unable to learn without enormous sums of cash available to every teacher. I will never forget touring a juvenile detention center equipped with computers meant to ready the boys for the real world and one of the men touring with me looked over at in my direction and said, "these kids don't even know how to read." Content reads like hand-wringing worry without addressing the most basic education requirements.