*** I lifted my head up and felt my eyes well up for the first time since my parents left me. But this wasn’t because I was sad. It was the thought of how far I’d come since my parents had abandoned me in this dense forest. They’d left me in this forest isolated from […]
“The MCAS tests hurt kids. Thanks to the Ledger for focusing on those kids who may have skills but cannot pass a written test. But please don’t forget our third graders trying to read a sixth grade level item, and becoming sick over the test. Don’t forget our 10th grader contemplating dropping out, and closing […]
Mirror By Athya Uthayakumar I gaze at it, It stares back With a deeply carved frame, And a gleaming, cool surface I see myself, In the shiny surface Pretty or ugly, It always tells me the reality But what if it were to shatter? I know it matters not, Because it shows the […]
