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Gratitude Buddy Circles to be Implemented in Schools

Gratitude Circles for our children and our planet!

I am keeping my Papa's promise when he threw me over the barb wired fence in 1944, Nazis chasing us, he looked to the heavens and said, "Save my daughter and she will always serve you"...

2016... IT IS OUR CHILDREN THAT WILL BRING ABOUT HARMONY, UNITY AND PEACE... in a peaceful way.

History was made when one atheist argued that prayer in schools was unconstitutional and the Supreme Court agreed. Prayer in schools ended in 1962.

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Now 2014, NOT the Supreme Court but the children have the opportunity to make their own history by "repealing" that decision. Not by reinstating prayer, but by starting a movement to replace it
with a implemented program of beginning each school day with a Gratitude Circle before class starts, giving each person to share what they are grateful for (as seen in video below). They become buddies. One school at a time, and hopefully soon to be part of the morning school curriculum all over the nation.

This will help dispel bullying, discrimination and anti-semanticist. Children become school buddies and grow up caring and protecting one another. Giving a child a chance to express what they are grateful for in the morning before class starts leads to a good start for the day, gratitude feeds attitude for the rest of the day, for the rest of one's life. A simple morale teaching tool that leads to "in service work", to do good, instead of joining gangs...a moment of reverence, of oneness.

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I, Cantor Estherleon Schwartz, am a face and voice, part of History and have been invited to schools to share my story of the Holocaust and how I survived. My presentation is with actual footage.... This is part of History....

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