i got some edumacation. i went to yale, but i was born in tennessee and both my parents were public schoolteachers. and i had a teacher named ms. brown who was my kindergarten teacher. whenever we were stumped, whenever she would ask us a question that was just too hard to answer, she would say, now put your thinking caps on. you have thinking caps in the budget in your public schools? and we would put them on. and we would think. and lo and behold, somebody would come up with the answer. why was that? because we had a moment to go deep and we had a public schoolteacher who cared. and i'm going to say this before i move on. maybe i was raised wrong, but in my community, in my neighborhood, in my home, i w never new about a threat to a public employee. we didn't call them public employees. we didn't see them as some sort of threat that needed to be turned into a political punching bag and disrespected. we didn't call them public employees, we called them teachers, we called them nurses, we called them librari