I'm still disappointed with the "champions of individual liberty" here at FreeRepublic being so willing to inflict governmental restrictions on others, as well as submit their families to governmental restrictions. Teaching kids to cherish liberty by denying it to them is such a good idea that I think we should extend it to the parents. The first thing government should deny the parents is fire arms. After a few years without them, those parents will really love their fire arms, and government just may consider allowing them ownership, but only at designated times and locations of government's choosing.
Individual liberty??? And we're talking about public schools which confiscate thousands of taxpayer dollars --- here it's pay up --- and to the tune of thousands --- or lose your property. If we meant it about individual liberty, we'd get the government out of education completely, shut down the public schools. I've seen schools which are not much more than social clubs and what goes on in the cafeterias can be something we shouldn't have to pay for.