While president of the local home school organization, I addressed a local civic group in 2005 about home schooling and the fact that home schoolers in general stressed American history, government, and civics.
On the wall of our home school classroom we had posters of the Ten Commandments and the Bill of Rights. We studied important documents from history including the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, and the U.S. Constitution. We displayed an American flag and recited the Pledge of Allegiance, and we read Bible verses and prayed.
Virginia is rich in the history of America, and today's Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial brings some of that to light and opines on the importance of reading the U.S. Constitution....
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