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    After principal Tonya King denied junior Jim Stack’s request to grow his hair out for Locks of Love Stack wrote a letter to the school board asking them to reconsider. The school board will vote on this issue on Monday.

    “Donating my hair to Locks of Love is a very special project to me,” Stack said. “When we received my sister [Jasmine’s] wig, she was so happy.”

    Locks of Love is an organization that helps provide sick people with a wig made of human hair to look as natural as possible. Every month they receive about 200 request and end up having to turn 150 families away.

    “After I reach my goal of 10 inches [of hair], I hope to inspire more people in town to grow your hair and donate it.” Stack said.

    The schools handbook states that male’s hair can not be below collar level. Stack agreed if he could grow his hair out he would tuck it into his shirt to keep from distraction the other students. Principal King did not agree to the compromise.

    “We have rules for a reason and we just can’t go breaking them anytime we want. I can’t bend the rules for one student.” King said.

    King offered to support a school wide fundraiser instead. The school board received a letter from the Locks of Love president, Gisel Roco,  that said Stack was a good candidate for donation and he had a letter of permission from his parents.

    “I don’t know how many teenagers today would put so much time and effort into helping someone else.” Stack’s mother Holly Stack said.

    The student council wrote a letter to the school board in support of Stack’s movement with 350 student signatures, 78 were male. Due to the letter, school board president Bill Valdez called members to a vote next Monday.

    “I can not comment on this issue until next week.” Valdez said.

Literary Weave

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A want of information that he craved, but never received, was a major source of his unhappiness

I have as much right

However, Douglass found away to con the white boys in Baltimore to teach him to read and spell

As the other fellow has

This new knowledge expanded the realm of his mind and gave him more doors to open

To stand

He was now in danger, the white men were scared that once Douglass began he couldn’t be stopped

On my own two feet

Douglass was finally a free black man, and soon, helped shape our country’s history

And own the land

“Out, Out-“

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The theme of “Out, Out-” by Robert Frost is that Life goes one. This poem is a great example of that, showing that when something tragic happens you don’t need to mourn forever, instead you need to get on with your life. The boy dies, yet everybody just goes back to doing what they were doing. You have to let things go and live your life to the fullest.

My Hearing

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My Hearing

To me my hearing the most important sense. When we are in the car my moms phone will be on vibrate. If someone calls or text her and she wouldn’t know. But I can hear it. Also when one of my cats are locked up some where and we don’t know where, I can hear them.

If I lost this sense I would be very lost. I probably wouldn’t know when to get up in the morning because I usually listen for the birds outside, T.V in the living room,my mother yelling my name or my alarm clock. If you lose your hearing I usually look at it as your whole world just suddenly went on mute!

If some one lost their hearing most likely would you use sigh language. A lot of people that lose their hearing depend on their

eyes. Some people lose their hearing from very loud sounds like explosions,extremely loud music and maybe even to many ear infections.

I don’t know what I would do if I lost my hearing. The one thing I would miss the most is hearing my family’s voices and hearing them tell me they love me. I am very glade I have all of my senses!