This Day in History: February 16

On this day in 1778, two future presidents of the United States, John Adams and his son, 10-year-old John Quincy Adams, sit in Marblehead Harbor, off the coast of Massachusetts, on board the frigate, Boston, which is to take them to France, where John Adams will replace Silas Deane in Congress’ commission to negotiate a treaty of alliance. [More]

I wonder what he'd have said if a representative from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education had shown up and told him that kid needed to be in school...or else...?