Angry Letter Draft

Dear Senator Inouye,

I am a good student and I try my best to keep up my work for all my classes. I do my work and really try while I am playing sports for my school. I feel that the furlough days are taking education away from all students and taking away money from the teachers, especially the ones that really need it. Teachers don't really get paid that much and they deserve to not get money taken away from them; they do a really good job teaching us students and helping us learn to the best of our ability.

I have had bad experiences with the furlough days, especially in my classes. Being in high school, we need to keep up with all of our classes in order to graduate and maybe even get scholarships for college. I have been having a hard time in my classes, especially math because I am in the tenth grade and in Algebra 2. We don't get to see each class everyday and the furlough days take away class time. Less time in class means that we have more things to go over in a certain amount of time. Every class has to cram the lessons together so that we learn what we need to learn by the end of the quarter. Because we have 6 classes, I already had a hard time before the furloughs because of having a lot of homework and multiple projects at once. There is just little time with so many things to learn. In my math class, we have to learn multiple lessons in one day, and I do stress over that because my brain needs time to process one lesson at a time and being able to learn how to solve each problem and knowing what formula to use, it takes a while for me to memorize everything. I don't always understand how to do everything, and it is very difficult because I don't always have time to get help from my teachers and I can't go to after school tutoring because I have to go to practice. What makes it worse is that lately I have been very sick, too sick to attend school. I can't keep up with everything because while I am at home trying to get better, at school there are other things that I need to learn and study so that I can pass my final exam.

I do have many problems with the furlough days and I am pretty sure that a lot of other students are going through the same problem as me, or maybe even worse. Having to deal with this and going through so many fustrations doesn't help our daily lives and furloughs don't make it any better. Parents also don't like furloughs because they have to work and now they have to worry about where they are going to take their children so that they know that their children are safe as they go about it and go to their daily jobs.

Furloughs should be taken away and put the school days back to normal so that all us students, parents, and teachers. Teachers should get their pay back and the government should maybe take away jobs that they think are useless or maybe take money from other saving bonds that are not being used as much. Education is important and teachers are helping the students get their education. Taking away one day of the week is taking away an extra day of education.

Thank you for understanding and maybe there can be things to be done to take away the furlough days.

Sincerely,
Jisel K. Liboy