A reader (a teacher, it seems) writes to the St. Petersburg Times:

Did Jeb Bush really say “our education system is an eight-track system living in an iPod world”?

That proves he is frighteningly out of touch, and that he hasn’t set foot inside a classroom in at least 30 years: Nowhere have I ever seen one of those obsolete devices in any school I have been in as a student or teacher.

I can assure you our schools are more technologically current than most people’s homes. But Jeb Bush still envisions purple-inked dittos, green boards and yellow chalk, back when the teacher wore her hair in a severe bun and rapped knuckles with rulers.