lis•ten /‘lis(e)n/ verb

1 to pay attention to someone or something.

Please give better education so kids can grow up to fix their own neighborhood.

-Quan Tran, Sacramento

Supplementing the lack of school counselors with advocates and mentors could help keep students of color out of the system and get them into the workforce or college instead.

-Chelcee Bunkley, Long Beach

Many people, especially black people, have been killed without having a court trial. These people are not even given a chance to defend themselves, they are being silenced with bullets.

-Jessica Salgado, Long Beach

In Merced, an issue I feel that is overlooked and brushed under the rug a lot is the amount of homeless people in the city. We have a hospital that could be transformed and turned into a center to help them improve their current situations.

-Angela Mata, Merced