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We have schools that are working. There is money out there. For every $10,000 that a regular high school student gets a student at a charter school gets $6,000. 

Why at Lincoln High school did I get $10,000? Why when I go to a charter school am I worth less to PPS? Why do they want me to have less money because I made a choice? Why is PPS punishing me? All students should get equal funding. I am inspired at LEP. LEP is helping me become the best person I can be. I just want to stay at my school because it works. Please we just want to stay open. We have a program that works. We have teachers that want to teach. We have students that want to learn. We just want to learn. That's all we're asking for. Please let us learn. Let us become the leaders and the future of our country. 

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Sitting

Waiting

Not knowing

MY future in the hands of others

Hands that are tightly compacted in anger

In hatred

Not understanding the root

What brings us together

A common thread weaves all supporters 

All champions

The KIDS

The KIDS that walk through school doors 

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday 

Friday

They are 

Learning

Reading

Writing

Computing large tables

They are growing and understanding

Like a sapling becoming a large oak

The kids are grown into adults that become the leaders and the future of our nation

The KIDS are the future

Your hands are holding the future

And you’re making a fist

Squishing all hope

Destroying all praise

Making it impossible for the tree to grow

For the future to succeed

A punch to the face a blow to the gut

The door of opportunity is closed

All we can is hope that a crack is left open

A crack can let light in

So the kids are not left in the dark

With NO where else to go

We need someone to lead us

Teachers that are guiding

Teachers that are caring

Teachers that see us as PEOPLE

With a future

They hold our hand

They do not make a fist 

Unclench your fingers and hold our hands

This is a poem I wrote about my school. I love my school  so much. It is more than a school it's my home. I love my teachers I love my peers. Please read this on the air. Please read this OPB. Please read this to the public. This is a plea  to read this.

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