Anna, thank you for sharing your poem. I hope you submitted this as one of your poems for the competition because this is very good. I hope you continue to write after this class is over because I think you have more to say. Great piece!

I agree that school is no longer about learning and is about passing. There are many ways in which I think the modern education system can do more damage than benefits. However, this can be fixed with a change in the culture around learning. From K-8 I went to a montessori school which moved away from letter grades and cared more about if students…Read More

I agree that gun control laws are needed to keep people safe. It is easier to buy a gun than to get a loan in many places in the United States. Personally I struggle with the idea if having gun should be a right. Other first world countries have all but banned guns all together and had less gun violence because of this. Some argue that having a…Read More