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Students get reality
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“I told you it would be fun, but it’s also important to understand why
we’re doing this,” said GHS junior and KCI Div. 3 Lt. Gov. Mariah
Reitz. She read a list of statistics regarding the homeless to the
group in the high school’s theatre arts room. “What makes a person
choose to live in a place not fit for human habitation?” Drugs, mental
illness, lack of affordable housing, unemployment… more than a quarter
of the homeless are under 18. “That’s your age. Can you imagine living
a life like this?”
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