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After moving to Scotland, there wasn't much that surprised me more than to find a budding community of devotees to professional wrestling.

It is hyper-American and slightly embarrassing to the extent that even in the States, many of the fans who don't pack the arena watch matches in their closets with the sound off. And yet I've met more avid fans in Scotland than I know back home, even in a hotbed of monster trucks and backyard wrestling like North Carolina.

Because of that affinity for wrestling, many Scots are more familiar with the woman in line to lead the United States Department of Education than I am: WWE co-founder Linda McMahon.

Although Mrs McMahon does not have the most typical education credentials, she does have connections to a particular trend in American education and one that reflects an alternative reality to something that education on this side of the pond is grappling with currently: the balance between public and private education.

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