Stephanie is a Middle School Guidance Counselor in rural North Carolina. Yesterday she told me about why she decided to support Barack …
I feel the vision… I see the honesty that he brings, the integrity that he brings. I am a school counselor and live in a rural area; my kids are not afforded a lot of opportunity, and I think he’s going to make a change … He has remained calm through the storm of the campaign, and gives a message of hope. He is young, energetic, and someone that my middle school students can identify with when dealing with adversity.
Stephanie sees the downturn in the economy hurting her community, particularly difficult since many of her students already aren’t provided the kinds of breaks that other, more affluent students often are.
She says, “a lot of my students come from single parent homes, some without as many role models as they could use.” Still, Barack provides them with this kind of role model, and again she reiterated that “he gives this great sense of hope, that he really wants to make the change” that can help her kids ...
If he is able to do what he’s talking about in making college affordable, it allows me to keep preaching to my kids that if they work all of them can go to college …otherwise, these parents are having enough trouble feeding and clothing the kids, and the students see that their parents can’t afford to pay for them to go to college … And I won’t be able to be straight with them and tell them that.
Barack wants to work to make college affordable for every student in America. To read about Barack’s education plan, click here. To read about his plan to support rural communities, click here.
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