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Thanks for the words and music to 'Bless This House'...this is one of my favorite songs....

I learned this song in public grade school, duing the late 1950s...our whole class just loved this song, and altho it is appropriate year round, we always especially found it touching around Thanksgiving, which is when we sang it more than ever...

When I was in public grade school, in 5th grade, we had a wonderful teacher....at the end of the school day, usually the last 1/2 hour, our teacher used that last 1/2 hour, either for punishment or reward time, based on how the class as a whole behaved during the rest of the school day...if the class was in general rowdy and bad all day, and just had our teacher at her wits end, she might 'punish' us, by giving a pop quiz on something, or making us write a boring short theme...

But if we were good, we then got a reward...most times, the reward was to listen to the teacher, as she read aloud from a novel that she had picked out...the novel would have been something not on our list of required reading, but something that our teacher thought we would enjoy and should read...most kids got their own copies of whatever novel she was reading, and would read along with her, as she read out loud...(WE loved her reading out loud, as she dramatized the whole thing, and made it interesting to all the students, even the slackers).....

Then when she was done reading for the day, and it was almost time for the bell to ring to let us out, she would then ask us which song we would like to sing, and she would play it on the piano, and we would sing along...very, very often, we wanted to sing 'Bless This House'...rarely can I hear that wonderful song, without going back to my youth and my schoolhood days, and that wonderful teacher...

Try to teach that song to grade school students today, and watch someone object about their civil rights being violated...

By the way, this teacher always had the most well behaved classes during her teaching career at that school...she knew how to make us love learning, love reading and love singing...and often us kids, would chastize those in our class who were acting up, because we did not want to miss our reading and singing at the end of class...

Again, thanks for that wonderful song...

You are most welcome, andysandmikesmom! I really love the song and the words could almost have been written especially for our troops Canteen. Coteblanche found the music, I found the words because I needed to see them, and cote put it all together. I play it periodically throughtout each day. And it becomes more important each hour now.

Thank you for sharing your story, andysandmikesmom. There are a lot of good and wonderful teachers, but there are some exceptional ones who truly make an impact in a student's life. In spite of all the PC going around lately, I know there are still a lot of them out there and my best friend is one of them. May God give them strength, wisdom and courage to deal with all the BS going on.

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