Free Republic

Eighteen children filed into a small church one evening last week to learn about the principles of American liberty, including lessons on the failures of communism, the Constitution's biblical roots and gold's superiority to government currency. During the five-day Vacation Liberty School, talks, skits and activities mixed conservative values and early American history, including stories about how colonists' prayers once helped turn back a threatening French fleet and the principle of equal opportunity, but not necessarily equal results. It marked the latest of a growing number of Vacation Liberty Schools, volunteer-run programs for children mostly ages 10-15 that resemble a...

The Texas Tea Party Patriots PAC is hosting a Vacation Liberty School for eight to thirteen year old children during the second and third weeks of July. Vacation Liberty School is modeled after Vacation Bible School by engaging children in a fun atmosphere to learn during their summer break from school. Vacation Liberty School helps fill in the blanks of some of the areas of American history that have been glossed over in public school text books due to political correctness. The focus of the Vacation Liberty School is to help the children learn more about founding principles of the...