1.0 link 224543 <![CDATA[Our Children (and Our Country) Deserve Democratic Schools]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-chaltain/our-children-and-our-coun_b_224543.html A few years ago, a reporter in Columbia, South Carolina asked local elementary school children why America celebrates the Fourth of July.

Most of the answers were predictably personal. To eat hot dogs, said one boy. To watch fireworks, a girl answered. Another child thought we all celebrated the Fourth of July because it was his brother's birthday.

One student, a fifth grader from Nursery Road Elementary School named Vante Lee, gave a different answer. "We celebrate the 4th of July,"...

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