Dear Parents:

The education of your children is your responsibility.

In primitive civilizations, where the primary activities were, and even today still are, hunting and gathering, the fathers taught the boys their skills, and the mothers taught the girls how to prepare the food for eating. As civilization became more complex, parents discovered they were less capable of serving all their children's educational needs, so they turned to the government for help. Counties stepped up, and in exchange for tax money, they agreed to build schools and hire professionals to staff them.

Elected school boards were created to administer the enterprise. They are groups of average citizens, many of them parents, charged with the responsibility of seeing to it the children receive what they need to succeed in life. Please select your school board members wisely, counsel them appropriately, and always remember, your children are depending upon you to ensure they are educated properly.