KIDS Issue 806 · April 5, 2020

The Key to Freedom

Four teens share their experiences of how they escaped from their personal prisons… to freedom

The Key to Freedom

There are all kinds of prisons, and even in America, land of the free, individuals can experience the feeling of being locked in.

Four teens share their experiences of how they escaped from their personal prisons… to freedom.


Miri’s Sentence

Absent. Such an innocent, even typical occurrence. I never expected it to mess me up the way it did, but boy did I choose a bad day to be absent.

Toward the beginning of the school year, our mechaneches, Mrs. Marcus, divided us into pairs of “Chumash buddies.” Three times a week she gave us hachanah time in class, and twice a week we got worksheets for homework. We were basically “chavrusas” during hachanah time, and were responsible to help each other make up missed work if either of us was ever absent or needed help.

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