Posted on 06/08/2004 10:36:50 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:16:12 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Lynne V. Cheney yesterday gave fourth-graders from Arlington's Francis Scott Key Elementary School a quick tour of America's continuing struggle for human freedom and announced the administration's second selection of classic books for the nation's schoolchildren.
Surrounded by 18 9- and 10-year-olds before panels of the former Berlin Wall at Freedom Park in the Rosslyn section of Arlington, the wife of Vice President Dick Cheney caught the class off-guard with her first question: "Can anyone tell me what a minuteman is?"
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"A" for effort. I hope it goes somewhere.
I remember reading that a couple years ago back in high school. It describe one day of a prisoner forced into the Siberian Gulags. Definatly one of the greatest anti-communist works ever written, and something everyone should read.
The shame is the adults who have let the NEA and their political wing control the agenda and the curriculum for so long. If adults don't care about what their children are being taught, then they can hardly blame anyone else when someone who _does_ care steps in to fill the void...
True. Along with a class describing how over 100 million forgotten souls perished in communist concentration camps.
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