Mar. 11-17

One quarter of a year remains before you graduate high school. What rights and responsibilities come with high school graduation? There are a lot of responsibilities that come when you graduate especially for yourself. You are now responsibly to earn your own way in life, to make a living.  To get a career and become self sufficient you now have bills to pay. You now have the right to be a property owner and with that come more responsibilities. With every right there seems to come responsibility.  With graduation you now have the right to make choices for yourself but with that right comes many responsibilities. Society has given you an education now it expects you to give back by being a responsibly citizen. That means obey the laws. That means vote when elections come. That means know the issues and candidates. That means help out your community by volunteering and serving.  Rights are just saying you have more opportunities; you have the opportunity to move, to get a family, to get more education, to choose a career but with every opportunity comes many responsibilities. Graduation is our ticket to opportunity and accountability.  One quarter left and we are seeing freedom but it won’t take long before that freedom is caught by responsibility. Rights and freedom sounds good, responsibility not so much.