Illinois Students Write Letters to Presidential Candidates

Publication: The News-Gazette
Date: October 3, 2008

Summary: Students from Urbana High School in Illinois are participating in NWP's Writing Our Future: Letters to the Next President project. The letters will be brought to the attention of Congress, and possibly the candidates themselves.

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If you could bend the ear of the next president, what would you say?

Samantha Smith, a senior at Urbana High School, would tell him to change the No Child Left Behind rules. "It's ridiculous how they're holding everybody up to the same standards" without providing similar learning tools, she said. "The worse you do, the less you get, basically."

UHS sophomore Earl Carter would tell him to charge health care fees, to "lower prices for people who can't afford health care, or just make it like free."

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