With a new president comes a new and completely different position on important issues burdening the nation today. Several people in our nation, including some seniors from our very own school, hold strong stances on some of those issues and hope that our new president will hold strong positions on them as well. In order to allow their voices to be heard, our seniors have written letters to our future president Donald Trump.
Among all of the chaos that the election has brought, seniors William Burrow, Bill Cox, Carlos Diaz, George Frymire, Kente Greer, Gary Horton, Maxwell McLeod, Luke Millican, Kevin Saucedo and David Seagram, under the direction of Mr. Lingel, have written well articulated letters to Donald Trump to, hopefully, gain more information about his plans for a variety of national policies.
The seniors who chose to participate in this project covered many topics that they believed were important and deserve to be addressed. These topics ranged from gun control, law enforcement, jobs and external relations, to domestic and foreign terrorism, war on drugs and even space exploration. While some people may turn the cold shoulder towards these ideas, these seniors believe that they should shed some light and help make the President aware of their positions on important topics like these.
One of the issues addressed was jobs and the American economy. Senior Max McLeod wrote about this topic because of his strong personal attachment to the American economy and his need for job security. With the seniors going off to college, their proximity to adulthood is greatly increasing and their need for job security may no longer be a small issue. McLeod, in efforts to ensure his future career, hopes that Trump will somehow control the rapid decrease of jobs in our economy. Taking into account the gravity of the issue, Max hopes that the change will happen “sooner rather than later.” He also believes that his letter is of importance because “Trump needs to know the ideas of the people who voted for him.”
Law enforcement, being another topic to be addressed, was tackled by senior Kente Greer. Greer decided to cover the topic of law enforcement because he believes that it is a prominent issue that tends to be glanced over until an extreme event (yet possibly preventable event) attracts the attention of the public. To him, writing a letter will show that there are actually people lobbying for a better, more efficient law enforcement system to be set in place and that “it doesn’t take…a person to hold a protest or sit during the national anthem to make this [national concern] known” While he knows there is always the possibility that Trump may not read his letter, he still cares that he is exercising his first amendment right to utilize his voice and point out something that he believes needs to be changed.
The seniors who did participate in this project believed that it was a worthwhile experience that could potentially have a positive effect on our nation. Senior Kente Greer even believes that it “was a great project that should be done by every senior at Jesuit.”
