OK, well for different reasons John's articles can be as entertaining as Sid's, and he had me going for a while since teaching languages early is a good idea, not that I can handle too many articles on why we should shovel even more money to K-12 so the funds can simply go to wage increases to existing workers without addressing "doing school", but then he ends the article in something that simply can't be handled on an empty stomach, or any stomach in any language. 
Do you really mean to suggest, John, that if residents of our state don't cough up $4,000 more per student when they're already funding $11,000 per student, a mind-numbing and think-staggering 36% increase in one year to WA's largest budget, that our children will simply end up in prison?!
I think considering even the present and strange era of shock-news and opinions presented as facts we now live in, that even that could rise above the stench. 
What is going through your mind to twist things as incredibly as that?