Veterans Teach Vital Lessons
The IntelligencerAmong the most heartwarming and encouraging stories we published about Veterans Day was one from Triadelphia Middle School. There, young students were joined for lunch by 45 veterans of military service. Several of the day's activities were devoted to learning about those who served and are serving in the armed forces.
For Triadelphia students, Veterans Day had special meaning. One of their teachers, Brad Sorge, is a U.S. Army Reserve member now on active duty in Kuwait. A letter from him was read to students. His two sons, Christian, 7, and Jacob, 9, presented to the school a flag their father sent home from an overseas military base.
Triadelphia Middle School was not alone in hosting those who served for special programs on Veterans Day. Other schools in our area, and throughout West Virginia and Ohio, also have such programs. Often they are referred to as "Take a Veteran to School Day."
Educators and their students face schedules more tightly planned than those most of us remember from our school days. There simply is not much discretionary time in the typical classroom, because of the amount of material teachers are required to cover. That can make it difficult to take time off for special events such as those held on Veterans Day. But we believe firmly that the hours students spent Wednesday in learning about those who serve was time well spent. History no longer is merely lines of text in a book or a two-dimensional multimedia show. Now, for the youngsters, those who made history are part of their knowledge base.
They know now that those who kept - and keep - our great nation free include some of their educators, perhaps the older gentleman who comes to school basketball games to cheer on a grandchild or an aunt who became a nurse after wartime service.
By meeting men and women who have worn the uniform of the United States of America, the students come to understand better that history is made by real people.
We applaud programs such as that held at Triadelphia Middle School. We encourage educators who have not yet found the time for such special events to rethink their priorities. Sometimes, the best learning outcome cannot be measured by a standardized test.
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EllisWyatt
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11-14-09 12:39 PM
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Our children should learn, every day, about the heroism and greatness of our veterans. Too many public schools, however, are more interersted in destroying our history and ridiculing, or ignoring altogether, our Founders, our military, our few honest politicians. Instead, they are taught how to put a ****** on a cucumber, that George Washington was a plunderer, that Jefferson tortured blacks, that any white man who invented anything stole it from another race and that any white male who helped build this country was, in fact, a criminal. You see, Political Correctness has taken over our schools. Our children are taught a warped view of history and they are brainwashed into joining the Church of Liberalism.
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