No place for violent words in education debates

What do Republican state legislators in Michigan deserve for disagreeing with Stephen Henderson, the Detroit Free Press’ editorial page editor?

If you ask Henderson, they deserve to be rounded up. “Sew them into burlap sacks with rabid animals, and toss them into the Straits of Mackinac,” Henderson wrote Saturday. “That’s harsh. Maybe. But isn’t that what the Romans or Greeks or some other early practitioners of democracy used to do with solicitous and unprincipled public officials?”