whew the guy with the white hair in the last bit before Fonzie
   nails it though: "If you wanted to invent a system that would
   literally drive you insane, that's the kind of system you'd come
   up with". Yeah, in all these years, I never stopped thinking
   that. Started around the age of 8 when I started to see the
   cracks and by 12-14, I was writing letters to the editor about
   it, reading books about Summerhill, "Unschooling" and stuff, by
   18, I started a children's rights list on the early internet
   (1990-1995) which got pretty big... it started a few children's
   rights groups of various kinds (they met on my list and formed
   focuses on the issues that mattered to them). I did my little
   part of history. NYRA is one of the groups. Another is TCS, one
   for parenting style.... I can think of a few others. Always
   wanted one with more of a school-fairness focus but the ones
   I've seen were overly optimistic and unrealistic. I keep hoping.