To: Deborah Rose, District 49, Council Member, President Donald Trump, The New York State House, The New York State Senate, Governor Andrew Cuomo, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate

NYC Teachers Can't Afford College for their Kids

Stop spending frivolously. Find funding for the children of teachers to attend college.

Why is this important?

I spend all day talking about the importance of college to my students. After years of talking up college to my own daughter, she has come to the grim reality that we don't have money for college. My heart broke into a million pieces when she said, "We can't afford college and I'm not smart enough to get a scholarship."

How can I send her off to college when I live paycheck to paycheck? How can I fight for a system that excludes my child? Like many others, we will have to make the decision to take out loans and be indebted to a system that has given nothing to hard-working families like ours and other teacher families.

Teachers instill in students the importance of higher-education. Our own children should be granted access to higher-education. Federal, State and local officials must find a way to help educate the children of teachers.