Message from sneumann

[Anonymous]

Lisa Fischler "Trafficking of Women"

I had to write one last comment on the “Trafficking of Women”, I started school last week, the 18th, and I looked at the many young girls in my classes and I keep remembering the statement that Lisa Fischler said that many of the pictures on the milk cartons are of girls that have been placed, forced or go into prostitution and or are trafficked into the sex trade. I too work in a school with students that have not left their neighborhood or that most likely will not go to college. Most of my students are not legal or have parents who are not legal.
I worry everyday about some of them and think of how their future is so closely related to America’s future. Many of my students are in gangs and have already experienced many things that I can’t even imagine. I am saying that many of my girls may have had to deal with some kind of forced sexual experiences and are not able to control their lives because of gangs. Yet at school we are told that all our students should go to college and I think that we are not listening to what is going on at home or in the neighborhood.
It is funny how a signal statement can stay with you for weeks. I look at mild cartons differently now.