When students who should be failing automatically advance to next grade from elementary school through high school, problem keeps getting worse. By graduation day, some students who graduate can barely read their own diplomas. In effect, these students get a counterfeit diploma that is nothing more than a twelve-year attendance record.

What does automatic promotion teach children? Many students tend to set their standards no higher than what their teachers or school expects of them. Automatic promotion lets students coast along with little or no effort, knowing they will advance to next grade even if they never study or do their homework, or receive low grades on their tests. Automatic promotion also tells kids they can succeed in life without effort or perseverance.

Besides creating millions of graduating illiterates, automatic promotion tells kids that mediocrity and laziness are acceptable. It tragically sets children up to fail later in life when reality smacks them in face -- when they apply for college or a job. These are not lessons that schools should be teaching our children.

Parents can avoid this problem by taking their children out of public school and taking advantage of great education options Joel Turtel describes in his book, "Public Schools, Public Menace."

At this time and thereafter as well, Rufus was US Ambassador to England. He was formal Ambassador during negotiations for Louisiana Purchase and then he continued as special representative. Some of his family then came to Canada and my family legend tells us they said they were United Empire Loyalists. We are related. Yes, Kings were United Empire Loyalists and perhaps in same way my mother’s mother’s family (The Hamiltons) were. The Hamiltons are high up in Stuart ‘play both ends against middle’ gambit but I cannot say that by my grandmother’s time there was much more knowledge about these things than merely buying Orange or Irish argument and conflict. It certainly was a passionate issue for them. You could call them all monarchists and that includes Rufus King, Ben Franklin and other noble offspring and illegitimates like Jefferson. I am pretty confident that real power in Louisiana Purchase was Pierre Dupont de Nemours and Rufus, Livingston, Monroe, Jefferson and all rest answered to his beck and call as Rothschilds loaned or gave money to Jefferson and others as they so desired.

The Rothschilds and Duponts are key or primary Merovingian families. Natty Rothschild was more visible in planning wars of 20th Century along with Cecil Rhodes and Randolph Churchill who he loaned (?) great sums of money to.

The Churchill family has people living in King Township near my relatives where Bilderbergs met at a Rothschild Hotel not long ago.