Fixing American Education:

Harold Levy thinks he's got the answer. First, he wants to raise the age for compulsory education nation-wide to 19, and better yet, one year beyond high school. Then he wants to lengthen the school day and the school year. We're still running our school's under the old agrarian system that allowed students time off to help with the planting and harvesting when only one person out of a hundred is employed in modern agriculture. He also thinks we should look at the truancy issue. It seems that the average urban school student cuts a month off from every year.

Mr. Levy apparently believes that parents and other adults are actually interested in education.