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Jefferson did not want even a state government to “take this business of public education into its own hands.” Jefferson warned that "If a governor and state officials were to control the district schools, they would be badly managed, depraved by abuses and would soon exhaust the available funds. The key to local school districts is that they give parents direct and ultimate control over how their children are educated. To suppose that schools will be better managed by any authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward…is a belief against all experience. A government can no more manage schools than it can manage our farms, our mills, and merchants’ stores. Schools should not be controlled by the federal or state governments."