Unfortunatly, the revolution that we wage for education can't always be fought in the confines of the classroom. Public schools are under seige from the always-touted-never-funded NCLB, budgets are being voted down, and schools have to fight to keep religion out of science classes.

Here is one man's own personal revolutionary act: it is in the form of an open letter to the Kansas School Board in response to the case for "Intelligent Design". It is quite funny and poignant:

You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s. For your interest, I have included a graph of the approximate number of pirates versus the average global temperature over the last 200 years. As you can see, there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature.

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(Link via Boing Boing)