With all the school threats lately and March for Our Lives, I wanted to share what we did for MLK day this year. I think we all have a dream to live in peace and not have our students and children be surrounded by hatred. We want our students to have dreams and goals and to be able to live out those dreams and goals. We want them to feel safe to go to school and take risks and learn.

I’m 25. I want to feel safe going to work every day, so I can follow my dreams and ambitions as I grow as an educator and person. Teachers who are parents want to go to work knowing they’ll return home to their own children at the end of the day, and parents of students want to be able to send their students to school knowing they’ll come home safely at the end of each day.

Although there have been threats all around at the schools in the communities where I live and work, I still remain positive that there is good in the world, and that teachers and students do make a difference in the world. I know the teachers and students where I work make a difference every day, and if we continue have goals for the future that make it an even better place, anything is possible.

Here are some of my students’ dreams and goals and the worksheets we used, and if they follow them, I think our future looks promising.

Some of my students’ dreams (edited for spelling):

1. Clean up the whole world.
2. Feed the homeless and give them homes.
3. To be a vet.
4. To make art and put it in a museum.
5. Have a million dollars to help homeless people get money.