Toolz in Skoolz (The "Tweethis" Experience)

I hit a JACKPOT of wisdom this weekend regarding my shabby thesis.  Best idea, this "tweethis." 

While I don't have Facebook, Twitter, or the like to broadcast my ideas, I do have e-mail and word-of-mouth.  I sent my ideas to former teachers, professors, and to random language arts educators of different counties and school districts (some of them responded with, "Do I know you?"), trying to get a different opinion from each source.  I intentionally asked some teachers from high school that I knew would oppose my idea.  I wanted a real argument (non-contentious, of course) to found my rebuttal on. 

Family members were helpful and surprisingly well-read on the issue, and friends offered great advice for how to structure my argument. 

I found 808 comments' worth of "thumbs-ups" and "thumbs-downs" on a Wall Street Journal article that argues my exact thesis. (GOLD MINE.) 

Opinion of a family member. 

Opinion of a political science educator. 

Opinion of a language arts educator.