In a famous 1791 educational policy paper, Dr. Benjamin Rush (a signer of the Declaration of Independence, ratified the Constitution, and served in the presidential administrations of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison) offered numerous reasons why the Bible should never be taken out of American schools. He warned, "In contemplating the political institutions of the United States, [if we remove the Bible from schools] I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them." Noah Webster  (one of the first founders to call for the Constitutional Convention and was responsible for specific wording in the Constitution), in a textbook he authored for public schools, told students, "All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible". 

    It's not hard to see that our educational systems in America are a far cry from where we started. Core American values, Biblical truths, and parental involvement are virtually non-existent and while the student is left unprepared for life and success in many ways, they are definitely receiving their fair share of partisan propaganda. This is not the public education our founders dreamed of, but Cornerstone Christian School holds true to the Biblical principles, values, and truths our founders made central to the foundation of our great country.