There's a reason we say - 'in whom we live and move, and have our being...'

I'd agree that we need to push back on RFKjr anywhere. Any curriculum will be a Bataan Death March with insufficient staff, so i'd assert that public schooling has perhaps 1/2 to 1/4 of the teacher staff actually needed.

It's possible to see the scene as the fireplace's POV.

How is this not kidnapping? If something had happened to the kid, how are the CBP agents not materially culpable?

In the first place.

Anything to avoid actually funding the staff required to teach English phonics - notoriously difficult vs say, Finnish - along with why it was *interesting* to learn to read.

One of the issues with constant reduction in real funding for public schools over the past 4 or 5 decades is the squeeze to use techniques that are more amenable to factory model schooling at minimal possible cost - and that could be mandated by statute.