Around the Banks

When I was in grade school a hundred years ago, our teachers and principals taught more than reading, writing and arithmetic. We received a citizenship grade and that was given for how well you conducted yourself at school. There was a great deal to citizenship, when I consider it. Each morning the class began with The Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. At each school assembly, we began the assembly with the National Anthem and The Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. Because the county didn't have enough funds for years to hire individual music teachers, we were taught songs  by our elementary teachers; songs that meant something to the culture in which we lived and our national culture