At 9:00 am, Friday Oct. 3, 2014, the Grissom High School auditorium was buzzing with a younger-than-usual crowd of students. Two hundred & fifty elementary students from Chaffe, Williams, Farley, Whitesburg & Monte Sano schools wore Statue of Liberty crowns, waved flags and sent up a roaring applause as Lady Liberty took the stage.
Today’s event is part of the Huntsville-based Liberty Learning Foundation’s mission to teach civics, character, financial literacy, careers & social studies in classrooms where, increasingly, less time is spent on these crucial subjects. With the help of Jane K. Lowe Foundation, Madison Co. Commission & the Surgery Center of Huntsville, teachers receive Super Citizen Program Resource Kits and are able to begin and end the program with these high-energy events that boost engagement and retention and rally entire communities!
After 10-weeks of learning, these same students will also have Graduation Celebrations at which time they will honor local heroes on stage. Because, as we say in our “Torch Teams” unit of study, “When you honor a hero, you become a hero.”
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