[mrsmith]

"Look them up sometime."
You make me LOL newbie!

But seriously, Jefferson would be astonished at what the NEA and the feds have done to our schools.
The fact that a child is better prepared to be a citizen by parochial schools would especially horrify him I think.

[Maelstrom]

But seriously...How long do I have to be here to stop being a newbie?

A year after you signed up? Six months?

I think that the fact a child is better prepared to be a citizen by parocial schools would change his mind about how much involvement the government should have in the lives' of our nation's citizenry...thus my comment.

[jwalsh07]

"I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom. 2. To divide every county into hundreds, of such size that all the children of each will be within reach of a central school in it." --Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1810. ME 12:393