Three cheers for modern schools

I spend a lot of time griping about modern education, but for now, let me take a moment to praise the opportunities at today's public schools. My daughter attends Huntington High. She has many more choices and options than I had 35 years ago at the small country school I attended. I tell people the only honors class we had was vocational agriculture. She will have a much beer preparation for higher education than I had, at least as it comes to schooling.

She may have the Internet, but she does not have the bookmobile. The van from the Gallia County Public Library got my brain through many summers. But she can get to downtown Huntingto whenever she needs to go to the library, so it's a wash.

I still envy here, though, for the opportunities she has for education.