Axson-Flynn up against it

I wonder if Christina Axson-Flynn knows what she's up against in her dispute with the University of Utah. She's taking on centuries of tradition going all the way back to the one-room schoolhouse and the schoolmarm. The right of a teacher to require students to do things they don't want to has been an integral part of every education system everywhere. Either you do what the teacher wants or you fail — or you don't take the class in the first place. How could she be ignorant of the things she would be required to do when she signed up for the class? She won't get much sympathy from anyone who took gym and didn't want to.

Jeff Anderson

Salt Lake City