CLEVELAND, TN (WDEF) – Eighth graders at Cleveland Middle School recently got a civics lesson they won’t soon forget. The students marched onto the football field to spell out the first three words to the preamble of the Constitution. That’s a patriotic example of “What’s Right With Our Schools.”

Ed Fickley is the 8 th Grade American History Teacher at Cleveland Middle School.

He explains, “Today, we brought all of the eighth-grade students, about 500 students out here, onto the CMS football field, so that they could spell out the key words of our constitution, the first three words, which are, ‘We the People’. It’s important to understand the students have a place and a voice in government; even before they have a chance to vote. Even when they have an opportunity because you know the

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