MAKE THAT CHANGE

Good evening!

I hope that your week is going well. It's hard to believe that tomorrow is THURSDAY. This week is flying by. Friday please hurry the heck up and COME.

Miz Christina has devoted the past two days discussing poverty. It is such a reality for all of us. Many of us are only a paycheck away from standing in line and collecting "the stamps" and govt. cheese. It's heartwrenching when you have educated people driving for Toyota who were once potential Nobel Prize recipients (read today's news). It is also dismaying when you have students who cannot attend field trips because their parents do not have FIVE DOLLARS to spare. In our society, $5 can't get you jack, but for some families, $5 can purchase a case of Ramen noodles, Spaghettios and some packets of Koolaid; that constitutes dinner for a couple of nights.

And to think, Madonna is worth over FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS? Indeed, she works hard, but what can be said about this?

Education was once the key to leaving poverty behind and living "happily ever after." Now, education will still have your ass broke.

Who is to blame? Who really cares about America's poor? Who is willing to be the beacon of hope that the poor need?

Watch tonight's debate. Tonight, my students and I will be watching this monumental event. Have you read Roger Ebert's commentary regarding McCain's mistreatment towards Obama last week? If not, read it.

I hope that America's poor is watching tonight. Then again, many of these individuals are the ones who elected BUSH and are determined to elect MCCAIN.

WORD.