Summer Reading Article 1

Article 1

The first article was about how the youth faces a lot of changes in their lives, as he stated in this passage. He spoke to 60 different who came from 60 different districts. The students that he spoke with dealt with things like depression, attempted suicide, gang warfare, sexually and physical abuse, absent parents, poverty, and learning disabilities. While these kids struggled to survive going through these everyday events it didn't stop them from walking across the stage to receive their diploma. Sherman stated, "I spoke about resilience-about my personal struggles with addiction and illness". It was the student speakers who told me the most important stories about survival.