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| Topic | Role Model |
| Content | In our great state we have many role models. Our teachers, parents, coaches, friends, even the famous. Unfortunately many children never have the opportunity to have someone to look up to. For children or adolescents who do not have role models we have programs like Big Brother Big Sister. The children who are entered into these programs do so because adults that care such as, a single mother or father enter them. What about the children who do not have parents, or how about the children who have parents that are not good influences? The state should devise a system to make sure every child has a good role model. To often children or adolescents find a group of friends their own age to look up to. All to often this group is impoverished, or neglected by their own loved ones. The results of these adolescent children being neglected is often crime, drug use/abuse, or dropping out of school. A brief story would be of a boy named Quincy. Quincy's father was in prison, and his mother died of a crack addiction when I was in the 9th grade. I've went to school with his two sisters since the sixth grade and new Quincy personally. By the time I was a senior in high school, Quincy was a trouble maker, and far above the average trouble maker. He had no role model, no one too look up to. His sisters did the best they could but with the loss of his mother, Quincy listened to no one. The last time I saw him it was because I broke up a fight he was in, in which he and another guy almost killed a kid. He's probably in jail now for assualt, theft, or whatever other trouble he might have gotten into. I firmly believe that if the state would have taken action and surrounded Quincy with positive influences his outcome might be different. By paying attention to childrens home lifes in school, I believe cases like Quincy's can be avoided in the future. |
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