dax, maybe its just me (its probably just me) but imho if you have a group of people making demands about how an institution is being run, that it's fair to take a critical examination of the education level of those making the demands.
Like if I just marched into Army and started trying to tell them how to run the unit my kid is in, i think it would be fair for them to say "hmm, BAC it says here you have no armed forces experience whatsoever"