Everyone in the US has education forced on them unless they are being home schooled. And in the small towns the people being desribed in the article in the opening post often get their education handed to them with a good dose of condescention. I've lived in enough small towns, and my son had his first five years of schooling in small towns, to know how this works.

What would be nice for the people being discussed in this thread, since they're going to have their schooling forced on them anyway, would be if that education would be a good quality one. Sometimes it is, and oftentimes, it is not.