Every school day morning Patti and Ron Reagan did this:

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2. Yeah, the salutation to the dawn, which the kids actually called "good morning sun"

was a great way to start the school day. But doing something like that costs nothing. We didn't do a pledge to the allegiance thing there.

I'm lucky. My son went to public school here in Vermont and the classes were small and he had many creative, wonderful teachers.

But it was so much more than that. It was the whole environment. We didn't call our teachers by their last names. It was Miss Janet or Mr. Phil. And I actually loved the uniform- which I note looks much the same as it did 50+ years ago.

It was a school that made room for quirks and different ways of thinking and learning.