L.K. Golden Child

L.K. has asked me to keep his identity secret so I named him Golden Child in sad sarcasm. His mother has died from cancer when he was six and his father worked for CPS as elementary grade teacher. Since than their life has been struggle.



Where do you work L.?

I don't.

So how do you pay tuition if you don't mind me asking?

My mother has left me college fund, shortly after she died.

I am sorry to hear that.

Yes, I was about five when my parents divorced and shortly after that my mother became sick. It was cancer that killed her. My father can't spend a day without his medication, otherwise he becomes very sick. He was a teacher here in Chicago, teaching kids in elementary school. He tells me that most of teachers don't really care about their students.

Why?

Because they are under paid and schools receive smaller budget. They don't care about us man. In suburbs schools get five to six times bigger budget than here in Chicago. We are strongest world power and we have easiest school grading and testing system. This is all government fault and lets not forget our President Bush. He is biggest idiot. Bush polices are insane.

Insane? Where did you get that? Really?

(laughs) So we are fighting terrorist with high tech weapons and spending all the money in our budget in order to fight the people who live in caves. This is crazy. Bush polices have created more terrorists. We have turned masses of Muslim people into terrorists. What are we doing in their countries? Sadam did not have nuclear weapons, but our president lied to us and we followed him blindly into this endless war.

What will happen as outcome of this war? What are your thoughts?

Ten years ago me and my father made enough to pay the rent and 250 dollars for food. We were struggling and barely making ends. When he was about to go to pension principal in the school was giving him hard times. After long time he finally got the pension. I have good grades and I am smart but no one helped us financially at the time. Now is little better. I am working in grocery store so we are able to afford the Internet and the cable. Father and I had no one to turn or ask for help. We almost ended up on street. I pray to God that Obama wins at leas he has ability to use his brains and not his emotions. I hope government takes better care of homeless people too. I can see the world leaders congratulate to US for having Obama as president of this country. We need to listen other countries needs in order to have better diplomacy with the world man.