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AAR Keystone Heights, FL Home schooling organization Liberty Seed, Mar. 5, 2012

Started by 9mm4545, March 06, 2012, 01:50:48 AM

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9mm4545

March 06, 2012, 01:50:48 AM
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.
The American Constitution is remarkable for its simplicity; but can only suffice a people habitually correct in their actions, and would be utterly inadequate to the wants of a different nation.  Change the domestic habits of the Americans, their religious devotion, and their high respect for morality, and it will not be necessary to change a single letter in the Constitution in order to vary the whole form of their government. - Francis Grund 1837

NavNuke

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March 06, 2012, 08:06:36 AM
What a wonderful story of seventh stepping. Kudos to yourself, Glen, and Christie!

NavNuke
"Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself." -- Adm. Hyman G. Rickover

Morpheus

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March 06, 2012, 01:37:59 PM
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
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." Patrick Henry
"We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it." Nancy Pelosi (and Paul Ryan, kinda)

GEmanuel

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March 06, 2012, 06:52:20 PM
Ya gotta love stories like this, nicely done!
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." — George Washington

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." --Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either." ~ Thomas Paine
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