There is an organization of home schooling parents who asked me to help supplement their lessons with the true story of April 19, 1775. We held our class at Keystone Beach, a public park located near downtown Keystone Heights and had at least a couple of dozen very attentive and polite students in attendance, along with several parents. Ages of the students ranged from about 10 to 18 years of age. We met and spread out on several fixed picnic tables after lunch under the trees on a truly gorgeous day and got into the story of a night and day of nearly 237 years ago. Despite the lack of props or teaching aids, the audience was very tuned in and stayed attentive throughout. After the somewhat more detailed than usual First Strike, a short break was taken before getting to the "rest of the story". Altogether I spoke for over an hour and a half and finished with a description of Project Appleseed. There were several parents who hung around afterwards asking more about the program and taking brochures. I believe that the effort was definitely worth while and the fires of freedom were fanned today.
Many thanks to Glen and Christie Smoak, who helped make this possible. Both Glen (an Appleseed instructor) and his wife Christie (Appleseed student and home schooling mom) are enthusiastic supporters of Appleseed and have been huge assets for the program here in Florida. After meeting the home schooled kids and their folks today, it confirmed for me that taking your kids out of public schools is one of the best things you can do to preserve liberty and save the country.
What a wonderful story of seventh stepping. Kudos to yourself, Glen, and Christie!
NavNuke
An encouraging post for sure! My family is planning a similar event next week for our home school group. I will provide the three strikes and my daughter will do some DOM. I think it is invaluable to present this history to the young ones and their parents at the same time.
Thank you for this post and I will post our experience also.
Steve
Ya gotta love stories like this, nicely done!