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With the exception of the federal entities inidcated in the Constitution's Clause 17 of Section 8 of Article I as an example, entities under the exclusive legislative control of Congress, the states have never delegated to Congress, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate school purposes. This is evidenced by the excerpts below.
“The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphases added].” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
On the other hand, constitutionally ignorant citizens arguably DESERVE unwanted, unconstitutionally big federal government interference in their lives.
Why are BABIES ( because that’s what 3 and 4 year olds are) being sent to ‘preschool’ at all? Why aren’t these precious little ones being taken care of by parents or grandparents???
People will pay others to take care of their own but then tell me it is too hard to live on one income.....Learn to budget.
In the end, it boils down to parental sloth and stupidity. Why would a parent give up his 3-year-old to an unknown government hack purely for the purpose of babysitting? From 3 to 6 are precious years, a time for the parents to establish themselves as the children’s first and most important teachers. The potential influence in this period is massive, and it’s irresponsible to give it away to some shiftless bonehead just following orders from those who’s intent is evil.
Ultimately, it will be parents who choose to abandon their children; the children, and the future, will suffer for it.
“I’ve been to Oviedo, and it’s not a bastion of atheist activism.”
They do have at least one person working there who needs to be fired—by the parents, because the leftards are certainly not going to do it.
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Give Obama and the rest of the commies the finger. Homeschool.