Teen Talk 6-21
Hi, my name is Taylor Noel Taylor and I am in the 5th grade at Cornell Elementary. I am excited to be here today to tell you about my personal experience with Junior Achievement.
News For, By and About People
Hi, my name is Taylor Noel Taylor and I am in the 5th grade at Cornell Elementary. I am excited to be here today to tell you about my personal experience with Junior Achievement.
Making A Difference in Another’s Life – How you can help grant a child’s wish
This school year has been one of new rules, strict policies and even new times. The new superintendent of the Lansing School District, T.C. Wallace, has had “the opportunity to lay the groundwork for a strong organizational structure”.
It seems as though Lansing no longer supports the arts and poetry is slowly becoming a fad for an older generation.
They only have a 7000 person force to police all of Darfur, which is about the size of Texas or France. Interviewees said that gunmen attacks are frequent and they are trying hard to stop them. They report that 200,000 have been killed and 2.5 million displaced even though the capital says only 9,000 have been killed. But a Catholic school posted a billboard on April 1 on a busy street of Springfield, Illinois. Posted on it says “ Stop genocide in Darfur 400,000 dead –and counting.”
Meet Ashley LaMantia and her 2-year-old son Robert Anthony. In elementary school, she dreamed of being the first woman president. In middle school, it was a kindergarten teacher. By 16, Ashley LaMantia had dropped out of Canton High School, too busy partying to attend class. Today, at 24, she’s unemployed, feeding her 2-year-old son with food stamps and searching for a job that doesn’t call for a high school diploma.
Darfur is not a country but a region in Sudan. It is located in the west of Sudan next to the Central African Republic and Chad.
Meet Ashley LaMantia and her 2-year-old son Robert Anthony. In elementary school, she dreamed of being the first woman president. In middle school, it was a kindergarten teacher. By 16, Ashley LaMantia had dropped out of Canton High School, too busy partying to attend class. Today, at 24, she’s unemployed, feeding her 2-year-old son with food stamps and searching for a job that doesn’t call for a high school diploma.