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I grew up outside of Richmond. In the 4th & 5th grades, our classes boarded the train at Broad Street Station for D.C. (with our black & white boxed lunches from Thalheimer's). We also took field trips to Richmond visiting the Capitol Building & Valentine Museum.

We managed to hit the White House of the Confederacy and the Civil War Centenial Center. It was not unheard of to have our year-end picnic at one of the many Battlefield Parks. How offensive it must have been to some back then! (sarcasm, for the impaired). But that was before the Consitutional Right of going through life without feeling offended and oppressed.

Of course, society is much more enlightened now.....not.

139 posted on 04/29/2003 3:20:42 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (Now I am yearning for the good old days, wanting to be Carried Back to Old Virginia.)

If only the teachers here in the middle of the country knew what they were missing, the truly visible "offenses" they could have taught.

I remember, even back then, wishing I had the opportunity for a field trip to Washington that other classes had.

Thank you all for the wealth of information! I look forward to reading more about this... it also helps prove the lie that is "American History" class in the schools.