I swear, one of these days we're going to open the morning paper and read that teachers are suddenly expected to teach toilet-training along with everything else...

I sometimes fear that the day isn't that far off, honestly. It's not that big a step from where they are, and I suspect the only reason it's not already on the curriculum is that most kids are toilet-trained before kindergarten.

And then, of course, people wonder why schools have such a hard time getting to subjects that are, say, school-related, like poetry or history or the scientific method or basic reading comprehension.