A quote that has stuck with me for 20 years now, by a Mexican immigrant who was not in favor of bilingual education: "They teach my son to be a busboy or waiter.  I want them to teach him English, to teach him to be a doctor or a lawyer."<p>Now, I know, satisfying the social urges of yuppie parents to have their kids get their hands dirty (in a carefully supervised way with a bottle of disinfectant close at hand and absolutely no chemical pesticide or genetically modified seed used) probably won't hurt anyone.  Those kids are going to be decently educated in spite of it all.  But for the kids who actually need school to get ahead in life, can we focus on teaching them to be doctors/lawyers, etc?<p>Incidentally, I am reminded of a Chris Rock comment regarding Martin Luther King Blvd: if you attend a school named Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, you probably can't afford to have your education planned by trendy educators.