That being the sound of the gauntlet that I've thrown.

If you're reading this, I challenge you.

I challenge you to a posting of polemics, a duel of (i)'deas, a chorus of concepts, an eyeful of ideas, a mailing of maundering missives.  Call it a quest after question-answers.

(Sorry, I have Phantom Tollbooth in my mind.  And a shout out to my whimsy-literate homies who catch the connection!)

/>I propose that this Monday upcoming be called and considered Education Monday.  Even public ed's biggest champions will be very quick to say that the system is not the ideal.  There's serious reason for concern about the state of public education in the United States.  On the up side, that's always been true.  Nonetheless, We got troubles / Right here in River City.

On Monday, post your ideas, notions, pipe-dreams, reforms.  Forget practical concerns.  Pah!  What matter they?  Ours is an ideal nation in which every voting citizen would be enthralled to increase all taxes by 1.5% purely to fund education and education reform!  

If YOU were King of the World (yes, even you, terpsichoros, as disturbed as that notion makes me--I said with a smile, please note, in gentle good-humor), able to aloofly wave an arm and declaim "Make it so"--how would you change, supplement, support, extend, reinvent public education?