A month or so ago I did a blog on bratty children in television commercials. "Does it have leather seats?" still makes my blood boil, but it is nice to know that just because there are brats in the commercials not ALL of today's children are obnoxious assholes!
Juan and Alex Gomez are illegal aliens brought to this country by their parents when they were young. While the entire family is sitting in a detention center awaiting deportation Juan and Alex's friends have
"stormed D.C. with a teen lobbying effort that seemed like something
out of Mr. Smith Goes To Washington. "We're going to give it our all,"
Scott Elfenbein, one of Juan's schoolmates, told reporters on Capitol Hill.
"We have to show [Congress] the flaws in the system." Says Kelleen Corrigan,
detention attorney for the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center (FIAC) in Miami,
which is working on behalf of Juan and Alex, "Juan is lucky to have such a dedicated,
extremely astute group of friends. It's been really touching to watch."
These are kids from Miami who have traveled to D.C. on behalf of their friends, working the system as it should be worked. I wish them luck.
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Teenagers taking on Washington is great, but what is even scarier than W and Congress? The lunch lady! In an unrelated story, 2nd graders (these kids are 7 years old) got rid of the frozen green beans in their cafeteria. Isn't it great when the process works?
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inspiring! I would like it if kids stood up more... like those scholars who met Bush and asked him not to torture prisoners... youth unite! "youthnite" could be a good name for the movement...
as for those kids who want the DVD player in their treehouse, put them out on the street... lol
PS: when I was in Catholic school, probably around 7th grade, a kid tried to organize a boycott of the lunchroom shepherd's pie... it didn't go well, and he had to write an apology letter to the lunch ladies... lol
Well, Pete, you were in Catholic school, I am not sure the Nuns (did they have nuns teaching?) would be quite as interested in helping the children swim against the tide.
My son tried to organize a dress code boycott last year, but no one was interested in helping him.
yup, we had many nuns teaching...
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