1993-1994 Harry Singer Foundation National Essay Contest

Responsibility: Who Has It and Who Doesn't and What That Means For The Nation
Teacher: Bill Harness

Valley Springs High School, Valley Springs, Arkansas

1st Tim Moore   2nd Matthew Grandon   3rd Saul James Horner

"A lady, twenty-five years after graduation, wanted to sue the school because she could only read on a third grade level. She blamed the school because they, at the time, did not have any form of special education for the slower reading students."
Carrie Waters, Valley Springs High School, Valley Springs, Arkansas

  "A local lady, mother of three and recently divorced, found it impossible to pay rent and provide food for her children when her husband walked out on her. She went to the appropriate government agencies to request assistance. Six months later when she was beginning to get her life under control, she went back to the agencies to tell them she no longer needed the assistance. She came away from the agencies feeling as though she had broken the law. She had been reprimanded for asking them to take her off their roles. They had complained about the amount of paper work she was causing them by making such a request."
Tim Moore, Valley Springs High School, Valley Springs, Arkansas

  "Frank Crane said, 'Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.'" 
Craig B. Milam, Valley Springs High School, Valley Springs, Arkansas

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