While picking our son, Jackson, up from school last week, my wife walked into the classroom just in time to overhear a teacher reading him the riot act. The teacher was trying to convince Jackson to stop bringing his Hot Wheels cars to school – because, you know, smuggling five or six toy cars into school each day is such a horrible thing for a 5-year-old boy to do. But how she phrased her request was the grammatical equivalent to running nails down a chalkboard. "Don't bring