I, too, laughed when my Australian friend sent me the Guardian article. But I can think of no better way to illustrate the importance of funding good public schools than Greene’s gaffe. The ignorance and paranoia in Greene’s mistake points also to how important it is to teach multicultural and anti-racist values — and not to back away from doing so when bigots challenge us. If ever there was someone who needed to read Maus when she was 12 — and have a focused discussion about Holocaust history in school, home, and/or church — it was Marjorie Taylor Greene.