Damn autocorrect, I typed wanker, it corrected it to wander. And the way we got onto it was, though she's backed off it now, Joanna said that schools'd be better if teachers knew their stuff better. There are many folks running around this country saying - loudly and to attentive ears - that teachers don't know their subjects any where near well enough and that standards for people to become teachers must be raised. I was disagreeing with Joanna. I was saying that despite knowing their subjects to a pretty shallow extent, most teachers I had did a more than sufficient job of teaching me what they were assigned to teach and that the problems with schooling (and, yes, I know the problems with the work problems) are wider social problems not problems with teachers. But now Michael Yates has taken what I was specifically saying about Joanna's specific statement as if it were ringing endorsement of public education in every place at all times...