At the end of our first year, students and faculty sat down to pick the school's mascot. We chose "Framers."

The term refers not only to the Framers of the U.S. Constitution, who made this republic possible, but to all of the people whose imagination and effort have built this nation and human civilization. The Framers of the Constitution were the first to solve the most challenging problem of all: how to create a republic of diverse, often competing interests, while protecting each individual's freedom and the products of their creative energy.

The United States is a nation of firsts, several of which are depicted above, and we became so by thinking and by doing within the framework of a republic created by educated people committed to solving difficult problems. The future of this nation depends on the education we give our children, and on what they do with what they learn.

Like the Framers, at Ideal Schools we are working to solve a challenging problem: how to build the high school students need to succeed in an increasingly complex and competitive world. We aim to help our students join the ranks of those who built this nation with effort and with new ideas, technologies, and solutions, and in so doing made the world.