Way to miss the point! the point was my father wanted to make a change in something that he had an interest in so he got involved.
BTW the founding fathers did support public education, so your "universal positive" statement was in error.
I didn’t miss the point, but I think you did. Nothing I do can change government schools into institutions which provide a Christian education.
Regardless of what the Founders believed about public schooling, they clearly didn’t envision the federal government being involved.
My understanding is that the early promoters of publicly funded and controlled education wanted to re-engineer society away from Christianity and family, to a society in which citizens gave their allegiance to the State. That has been going on for close to 200 years and it has been very successful.