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Do you know what it feels like to have an intense fear of going home because you don’t know what mood your parents are going to be in? Do you know what it feels like to have pain constantly reminding you that you haven’t eaten dinner in two days? Do you know what it’s like to live in a house that makes the Warsaw Ghetto look like the Palace of Versailles? Do you know what it feels like to cry yourself to sleep because you don’t know if your dying dad will ever call you his “little angel” again? If you’ve ever gone through any of these things, I am truly and deeply sorry. If you haven’t, consider yourself lucky. Consider yourself lucky that while you might not get the pair of boots you wanted, someone else might be working sixty hours every week just to put food on the table. We should consider ourselves lucky that we have parents who support our decisions. It is proven that parental encouragement can improve grades and raise self-esteem. Abusive or absent parents don’t encourage their kids. So where does that leave those kids?

3.8 trillion dollars: the national budget. 711 billion dollars: the national defense budget. America has the highest military spending in the world. Its defense budget exceeds that of 13 countries combined. As if this isn’t enough, Congress wishes to another 600 billion dollars for national defense. So, is there any question why we can’t help impoverished families?

Language is our bond. It defines and connects us. Its absence isolates us. Imagine traveling in a foreign country and not understanding a word of the language being spoken. How cold, how secluded, does that feel? The United States is a living, breathing human that needs to communicate with other countries to thrive and survive. If our people don’t learn other languages, we will be separated from the world. We will not thrive and survive.

Does anyone enjoy spending vacation time completing projects and immense amounts of homework? Does anyone enjoy missing out on parties, on visiting relatives, and going on vacation to do busywork, that, for the most part, is never even looked at or graded? Does anyone actually retain all or any of the information “learned” from summer assignments, or is it rushed to completion because you are not allowed out until it is done?