A Florida teacher created an uproar when she allowed classmates to vote a disruptive student out of the class and criticized him in front of the class.

According to a police report from the incident:

When Ben and I talked last week to Maj. Todd Schmidt about his proposal that the U.S. encourage Western-style education in the Muslim world -- part of winning the "war of ideas" in the war on terror -- there was one clear hitch: Would the Muslim world accept U.S. education efforts? Schmidt's response: The U.S. probably needs to keep its fingerprints off the program and work through international institutions.

A couple of weeks ago I found myself giddy to be agreeing with the Washington Times that the United States should be helping build schools in the Middle East. Well, it turns out that some folks in the Army think that's a good idea, too. Maj. Todd Schmidt writes in the latest issue of Military Review:

An honor student gets busted for possession of a controlled substance: candy. Another student is suspended for wearing a gun to school. On his t-shirt. Zero-tolerance strikes again.

How well do you think the US ranks on the world education stage? Why is this?