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Past quotes, news items, etc.. Kind of like a cellar in an old house, if you stumble around in here long enough you're bound to come across something of value.





 Past Quotes of the Month:

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By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be
wide apart. -- Confucius

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"...democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."  --The Father of our Constitution, James Madison,
in  "Essay # 10" of the Federalist Papers.

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"The teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with
our whole civic and social life that it would be literally -- I do not mean figuratively, I mean literally -- impossible for us to  figure to ourselves
what life would be if these teachings were removed. We would lose
almost all the standards by which we now judge both public and
private morals; all the standards toward which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves." --Theodore Roosevelt

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"The people who vote decide nothing. The people who
count the vote decide everything." - Josef Stalin

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"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect
liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial."
-- Justice Louis Brandeis

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"Let's not beat around the bush, just go ahead and say it. American
History is unconstitutional, religion is unconstitutional, the Constitution
is unconstitutional, the U.S.A. is unconstitutional. Dissolve this country immediately…" -- Bill McGhee
(in response to recent Supreme Court decisions)

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President Clinton was asked at a press conference why he believes local school
districts should NOT be able to spend federal education dollars as they determine
will best suit the needs of each district's children.  His response:

"Because it's not their money. If they don't want the money, they don't
have to take it. If they're offended by it, they can give it to other states
and other school districts." -- Bill Clinton

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"Good Intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption
of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution
was made to guard the people against the dangers of good
intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well,
but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters,
but they mean to be masters" --  Daniel Webster

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"Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you as teachers to make these sick children well - by creating the international child of the future."
- Harvard Professor Chester Pierce -

Webmaster's note: I felt it necessary to select this quote to remind us that we are at war for the minds and hearts of a nation, and the children who will be its' future...

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"...it is better that such should be sought for and educated at the common expence of all, than that the happiness of all should be confided to the weak or wicked" -- Thomas Jefferson

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"What ruins mankind is the ignorance  of experts." --  G.K. Chesterton

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"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
-- Benjamin Franklin

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"Education is useless without the Bible" -- Noah Webster

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"Those who fail to learn from 'history' are doomed to repeat it."
  -- George Santayana

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" If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free,it is the
responsibility of every American to be informed." --Thomas Jefferson

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"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary,
too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Oh yeah? Just give it a few hundred years, Mr. Jefferson ~ the Webmaster

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 Past News :

regarding the GLSEN conference
Read the report of a real success story...(but there is one thing the NSBA doesn't tell you -this school is a charter school!)




 Past Commentary





 Past Reports

"The Delphi Technique"  (Must read...don't let them fool you)
Rural School and Community Trust - download a text or Microsoft Word version of their report on the relationship between school size and performance in rural areas
A review of certain positions, by Walker County, GA Board Member Mike North
Nine Lies About School Choice - Center for Education Reform
The State of Education Reform in America - Comprehensive report by Policy.com
It Began with Adam (Smith, that is) - A report on the evolution of the public/private school debate, by David W. Kirkpatrick
School Choice 2000: What's Happening in the States - A report by the Heritage Foundation




 Past Poll Results
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Q: The Bush Voucher Plan will help:

Families in poverty: 3%      Middle class families: 3%     Upper class families: 22%

Everyone: 33%                No one: 37%

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Q: Is it time to move to year-round schooling?
Yes: 36%        No: 63%

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Q: Should compulsory attendance laws be repealed?

Yes: 58%             No: 42%
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Q: Should the state School Superintendent be elected or appointed?

Elected: 90%             Appointed: 10%
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Q: Should 2 year old children be required to "pre-register with local boards of education?

Yes: 4%             No: 96%            Yes, with exemptions: 0%
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Q: Should Home-School students be allowed to participate in public school extra-curricular activities?

Yes: 55%       No: 27%        No, but should have access to facilities: 18%
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Q: Should school districts enter into "exclusive" deals with companies like Coke or Pepsi?

Yes: 14%       No: 62%        Yes, with limitations on advertising: 18%
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Q:Should school districts accept free supplies and equipment from companies in exchange
for advertising rights in school buildings?

Yes:  35%    No:  65%
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