By: Reginaed

Dear Department of Government Efficiency

Dear Department of Government Efficiency, 

I am writing today to understand why you are taking people’s jobs away just because you feel like it.

People like their jobs and work hard for the government and don’t get enough money for their hard work. You are hurting people and making them cry when you take away the only way they can put food on the table and get groceries. These people did nothing to you, why do you think it’s okay to take away people’s jobs? What did the world do to you? Who hurt you? Who made you this way?

People need this job, the world needs these departments.

Let me give you some examples: Transportation, for one. People who work for the Department of Transportation make sure you can get to work and other places without a car. You’re taking away people’s access to buses and the metro, and that’s not okay. In addition, The Department of Education, among other things, makes sure that students have enough supplies and teachers, and you want to fire them? You are a monster for this. You will make little girls and boys cry when they read what you monsters are going to do to America, the place people call home. You’re not making “America great again,” you are destroying America.

I hope you always remember what you did to millions of people, including making people starve, die, and hurt.

I hope you remember this for as long as you live. 

From,

Reginaed

My name is Reginaed. I am a student at Eliot-Hine Middle School. I like writing because I like to make stories that I haven’t seen many authors make and I like to think of it as if I’m in my own world, it makes me happy.

By: Violet R., Grade 8

Golden Blood

They said your blood was gold.

They said you were going to be better than

we were ever going to be. 

They said you needed more support

than everyone else,

But they must have not supported you enough

Or in the right way,

Or maybe at all because

we’re still here

and you’re not.

I remember watching you

talking and smiling and laughing 

Being everything they needed you to be

someone to cry to or laugh with.

You didn’t shine for yourself,

you shined for everyone else–

maybe you needed someone else to shine for you.

People say that gods have gold blood

called ichor.

special blood for special people or whatever.

They say people with gold blood can’t do anything wrong.

They’re perfect, they never make mistakes

Gold blood sounds hard to live up to.

You were definitely special

You were almost perfect.

But your blood wasn’t gold

It was red.

Like everyone else’s.

I could see your smile start to waver.

I could see you start to hesitate.

I could tell you couldn’t take all of it

but you did.

You kept going.

I didn’t know you had reached your limit

until I watched you hit the ground.

And realized your blood wasn’t gold.

I knew you couldn’t take that much.

But you took it with a smile

When most people would have taken it with a grimace.

You should have told somebody you couldn’t take it;

That your blood wasn’t gold…

It was just plain fucking red.

By: Imogen, Grade 5

Dear President Trump

Dear President Trump,

I am writing to you because I think you have the wrong idea about immigrants who come to the U.S. for a better life. First of all, the people who come from a country that is at war are coming to America for peace and for a better life. It is hard for them to achieve this when you not only make them feel bad, but also unwelcome. You put ideas into other people’s minds that immigrants want to do terrible things to our country, and that they are different from the people in the U.S., just because of the color of their skin or their beliefs. All of these things make it hard for immigrants to be normal people, which is probably what you want.

Lastly, stop taking money from schools of America for your bougie lifestyle. You may think this will “Make America Great Again,” but in reality, it is our downfall.

From,

Imogen