" The Spirit of 1776 "

C. Bernard Schriver
Educational / Public Affairs Consultant Post Office Box 153 East Petersburg, PA 17520 (717) 665-3397

bernardschriver@gmail.com
Dear Fellow American(s): NOW is the time to ACT to reach & teach our Nation's teenagers America's principles & values. Please share this message (along with ATTACHMENT) with your friends and associates to find out just how you can achieve this important objective. Please consider this simple, and unfortunate, truth - many of our high school teachers have themselves been taught by college professors who are not versed in, or who are not dedicated to, the basics of the free-market system and the limited-government philosophy that have made our Nation the most free and most prosperous country in the history of mankind. We are now experiencing the consequences of the gradual abandonment of these founding principles &values in our economic, political, and cultural lives. If we leave our children's teachers on their own, we will simply perpetuate the status quo and contribute to the continuation of our country's downward economic, political & cultural slide, the end point of which is too sad to contemplate. To help our teachers provide the grounding our young people desperately need if we, and they, are to restore America's traditional principles & values, we need to provide those teachers themselves the teaching tools required to enable them to do so. This high-interest, low-cost teacher-preparation / student-study program provides teachers the tools they need to begin this important task of laying the foundation leading to the restoration of the vision & values of the Founders of the American Republic. You can take a first step in this restoration process by choosing to provide the teachers in your local area school, or schools (public, private, parochial), a SPONSORSHIP to participate in this exciting, non-partisan, pro-con formatted, and pro-American curriculum enrichment program. Don't miss this golden opportunity to help our Nation's teenagers gain a broader and deeper understanding of, and love for, the legacy bequeathed to us by the Founders of our beloved Country! Please let us hear from you right away. GOD BLESS AMERICA Bernard Schriver

P.S. I was one of the earliest Reagan-for-President activists. He was a major inspiration for the creation and development of this educational program.

WHO CAN SPONSOR HIGH SCHOOLS?

SPONSORS can be individuals business firms community service organizations (Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis, etc.) women's organizations Chambers of Commerce civic organizations veterans and other patriotic groups religious groups political groups foundations -- practically anyone can SPONSOR a local school(s).

Please read and share this entire message (with ATTACHMENT) with friends and associates to learn how YOU and THEY can help us reach & teach America's young people America's principles & values.

NOTE TO POTENTIAL SPONSORS

Based on ten years of secondary-level classroom teaching experience ( public & private / civilian & military / in the United States & abroad ) PLUS more than two decades working directly with secondary-level educators throughout the Nation via various youth citizenship-education / youth leadership-development programs, activities, and organizations -I can assure you that classroom teachers use the supplementary / enrichment materials that are already available to them - "on the shelf" - within their schools' Social Studies Departments. Therefore. if we provide these educators our non-partisan, pro-con formatted, strongly academic, comprehensive, and pro-America materials -- we know that they will use these materials for their lesson-plan preparations and as student-study handouts in the classroom. Don't miss this golden opportunity to impact these teenagers in a positive manner. NOW is the time to ACT to reach & teach these young Americans the principles & values that our Nation's Founders have given over to us. Please choose to SPONSOR a high school or schools in your local area today. GOD BLESS AMERICA.

" The Spirit of 1776 "

C. Bernard Schriver
Educational / Public Affairs Consultant Post Office Box 153 East Petersburg, PA 17520 (717) 665-3397

bernardschriver@gmail.com

Operation 2000+
To: Re: Concerned Patriotic American Teaching Americas Youth Americas Values From: C. Bernard Schriver

Reaching and teaching Americas key high school audience Americas traditional free-market / limited-government philosophy has taken on an even more dramatic sense of urgency given the current national economic crisis. This crisis has provided the nations bigger-government forces the excuse and opportunity to implement unprecedented government intervention in, and control over, our business and personal affairs. This intervention and control means risking significant loss of our individual freedoms and liberties, which will lead to a dramatic lowering of the standard of living of all Americans as the result of staggering deficits/debt, massive unemployment, run-away inflation, devaluation of our currency, and confiscatory taxation! In response to this urgency, we are preparing for national distribution a series of in-depth and high-interest resource theme-packets providing up-to-date teacher-preparation/studentstudy information covering a wide variety of national public-policy issues. These theme-packets are non-partisan they favor no particular group or party; rather, they stress the principles and values that support the traditional American concepts of individual rights and responsibilities, private property, free markets, and limited, Constitutional government. For just $250.00 per school year, we will provide this exciting series of nine monthly themepackets (approximately 500 to 750 pages) to the Social Studies Department Chair in each participating school, with permission to reprint the packets so each teachers students in the entire high school will have the opportunity to study this material. If each series is used by just three teachers (a conservative estimate) in the participating school (each teacher teaching 100 students), then the per-pupil cost will be just 84 for the entire school year! This material is part of an on-going series of educational programs I have been providing teachers and students throughout the Nation for more than two decades. Many hundreds of thousands of Americas young people have been exposed to this top-quality supplementary/enrichment curriculum material, and participating teachers from all sections of the country have informed us their students respond in a positive and enthusiastic manner to the coherent and consistent way in which these ideas and ideals are presented.

As a former classroom teacher, I can assure you that this type of supplemental/enrichment material is not found in our schools textbooks and will not be available to our teachers and students without the active participation of your sponsorship. Americas future will depend to a great extent on the choices her young people make over time. Will that future be a continuing march toward an ever-more centralized, collectivized society, or will we have the wisdom and courage to halt that march, reverse direction and restore the principles of individual liberty and limited government that informed and motivated the Founders of our Republic?

YOU

CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

We are seeking 2,000 concerned, patriotic individuals, business firms/associations, and community service organizations nationwide to each sponsor a local senior high school (at $250.00 per school) for the school year. This guarantees that approximately 1,200,000 high school students will have the opportunity to learn key American principles and values during the school year. Of course, if each individual, business firm, or organization sponsors two (2) schools, then 2,400,000 high schoolers will be reached. And, if each sponsor supports just three (3) schools, at least 3,600,000 teens nationwide will have the opportunity to learn, understand, and adopt as their own, the fundamental principles and values of Americas free society.

Please keep in mind that values adopted during the crucial teen years tend to last a lifetime; therefore, your sponsorship of a school or schools will be an investment in the future of America. Your dividend will be the creation of an entire generation of young Americans dedicated to the principles and values of a free, open and prosperous society. Please help us reach and teach Americas young people the intellectual, moral and civic values and virtues they need to make the right choices for America to keep alive the sacred fires of freedom! Please sponsor a school(s) today!

P.S. The boys [and girls] of the rising generation are to be the men [and women] of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them. Thomas Jefferson P.P.S. President Ronald Reagan inspired me to become involved in this work!

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OPERATION 2000

The high-impact / low-cost national citizenship-education program reaching and teaching Americas teenagers traditional American principles and values. An on-going series of Teacher-Preparation/Student-Study Public Policy Resource Theme-Packets presenting pro-con Analysis / Commentary and providing students the opportunity to gain an in depth and balanced understanding of the major national public-policy issues facing the American people at the dawn of the 21st Century and the Third Millennium. Directed to the national secondary-school audience public/private/parochial/home - this programs purpose is to reach and teach Americas teenagers the traditional principles and values of individual rights and responsibilities private property free-enterprise limited, constitutional government.

Man...is capable of rectifying his mistakes, by discussion and experience. Not by experience alone. There must be discussion, to show how experience is to be interpreted. Wrong opinions and practices gradually yield to fact and argument; but facts and arguments, to produce any effect on the mind, must be brought before it. Very few facts are able to tell their own story, without comments to bring out their meaning.

By: John Stuart Mill From On Liberty, 1864

OPERATION 2000

A citizenship-education program directed to the National secondary school audience

PUBLIC-POLICY STUDIES: Prepare (research and develop) and provide (distribute) nonpartisan teacher-preparation/student-study resource theme-packets to classroom teachers, department chairs, curriculum development directors, and students at the nations secondary public, private, and parochial schools. Theme-packets will address major national public-policy issues to encourage discussion/debate of a wide range of perspectives. Analytical approach will help develop (a) critical-thinking skills and (b) independent inquiry and judgment among the high school audience. Encouraging students to think for themselves will lead to the key objective preparing the nations teenagers to become informed and effective citizens. ECONOMIC EDUCATION: Prepare (research and develop) and provide (distribute) programs and materials for use in free-market oriented economic education at the secondary school level. Indepth examination of the fundamentals of free-market economics, including comparisons and contrasts with the command-and control features of non-market economic structures/system. Special emphasis to be put on the role of the entrepreneur and the characteristics of the entrepreneurial spirit in our economic system. Overall objective is to develop in students a broader understanding of and deeper appreciation for the principles, practices, and values of private enterprise in America. DRUG-ABUSE EDUCATION: Prepare (research and develop) and provide (distribute) programs and materials for use in classroom and campus-wide settings. STOP DRUGS will be student oriented and will employ the Peer Pressure principle-using other students influence to help keep fellow students from experimenting with drugs in the first place. Educate rather than have to rehabilitate will be the motto of this educational effort. PATRIOTIC EDUCATION: Prepare (research and develop) and provide (distribute) programs and materials for use in various activities within the classroom and throughout the secondary-school campus. OPERATION RED, WHITE AND BLUE will encourage learning more about our national heritage and the values of our experiment in self-government. Americas September 11th experience of the awful reality of terrorism in todays world demands that we provide our young people the opportunity to reinforce their/our dedication to our nations fundamental values and to instill in them a determination to preserve, protect and defend those values into the future. YOUTH CITIZENSHIP ACTION: Prepare (research and develop) and provide (distribute) programs and materials for use in community-service activities consistent with the high schools extra-curricular philosophy and practices. Areas of interest will include: Youth-senior citizen teamwork activities; environment-related projects/activities; various other school/community partnership initiatives geared to the individual school and its local community.

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OPERATION 2000+
TEACHING TEENAGERS TRADITIONAL AMERICAN VALUES
A Continuing Series of National Public-Policy Theme Packets for high school teachers of contemporary issues, economics, government, political science, civics, current events, problems of democracy, and history. Nine (each school year) high-interest and up-to-date teacher preparation / student-study resource theme packets examining the personalities, key issues, and the political / economic / ideological dynamics of the national public-policy debate of the postCold War era at the dawn of the 21st Century and the Third Millennium.

The key national public-policy issues examined in the various theme-packets are ideal for continuing study projects as future developments provide the opportunity to add updated information to the cumulative contents of the major issues resource files. Participating teachers have reported they will use this material as a standard feature of their schools on-going citizenship-education curriculum. Because most of these theme-packets are not time-sensitive, they may be plugged into the curriculum stream at any time during the school year with maximum educational impact. Ideal supplementary / enrichment materials. Can be used as the core of self-contained / free-standing thematic curriculum units.

SPECIAL FEATURES Each Theme-Packet individually packaged All material in 8 1/2" x 11" format for placement in student notebooks for on-going reference Strong analytical approach makes series highly effective as a critical thinking skills development tool Conceptual context of readings enhances student understanding Extensive pro/con opportunities for student discussion/debate Analysis includes contemporary application of the principles of traditional American concepts of individual rights and responsibilities, private property, free markets, and limited Constitutional government. All new material each month of each school year Ideal for keeping students up-to-date during this historic Presidential election year.

What Theyre Saying About Our

PUBLIC-POLICY THEME-PACKETS
The following are excerpted quotes from classroom teachers, department chairs, and other educators (from all regions of the United States) who have used our public-policy theme packets in their classrooms.
Excellent very valuable and useful. I want to participate in this program next school year. You provided other sources that gave me evidence to back up any statements I might make to the class. They definitely helped me. Materials simplified the ideas to further understanding. Thank you. The economics education posters were most useful. Twelve Things You Should Know About Marijuana was used by both Social Studies and Science teachers. The students were very impressed. Materials are all very thought provoking. It is something that some students are forgetting how to do: think for themselves. I like very much the kind of work you are doing. Thank you for the materials I teach comparative government and economics and found them to be priceless. Thanks again! I appreciate receiving your material so that I can share it with Jr./Sr. High Social Studies chairman and teachers doing special units in economics. Your outfit is obviously well organized and careful in manner-this is much appreciated. Materials were interesting, informative, and thought provoking. Keep up the mailings and the opportunity for educators to receive your materials. I enjoy this service very much. Keep up the good work. You have provided my students and me with a source of information, which supports our system. I have found my students want to be exposed to positive aspects of the system. The materials were used by my students in a very positive way. All of the materials created an atmosphere in which the students could spin-off to related topics. I would like to thank you for the materials, which were supplied to me this year. You are doing a good service to the teaching community by your involvement. Im looking forward to working with you again during the coming school year. Your services are greatly appreciated. Ive found your reprints and other printed materials to be a valuable source of information in preparing myself for classroom presentations. An outstanding program. an educational tool that our teachers can really use in the classroom. Very positive. They (students) reacted well to the special report on marijuana because it wasnt health class, from the police or in guidance! Students enjoyed the materials. Many use them for research papers.

C. Bernard Schriver is a former high school teacher with private and public school service both in the United States and abroad. He also has over two decades experience in national-level youth citizenship education organizations and activities stressing the development of youth leadership dedicated to the preservation, protection, and extension of the traditional American values of individual rights and responsibilities private property free-market economics limited Constitutional government. His work has been honored by receipt of two national awards from the prestigious Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge.

Yes, I / We Want To Help Reach & Teach Teenagers America's Principles & Values
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