However, this class also involves a trip to Spain towards the end of the course, for which she will have to pay! Working towards becoming a ChefĪlready working twice as hard as other students to keep her family’s financial boat afloat, Emoni is sure she will never be able to afford the trip. Her life changes when her school offers new elective courses for seniors, which includes an elective she always desired- a Culinary Arts Course.

She always puts her baby girl first while still pursuing her dreams of becoming a professional Chef. The teenage mother is juggling between bringing up her two-year-old daughter, Emma, and finishing her last year at school. With the Fire on High revolves around a seventeen-year-old girl, Emoni Santiago. Emoni is no ordinary teenage mother she is a girl from Philadelphia who breaks all stereotypes. Well, Elizabeth Acevedo in her book With The Fire on High takes us on a different type of journey with her character Emoni Santiago. We picture someone who society frowns upon and is labelled an outcast. Usually, when we imagine a teenage mother, we picture a girl who drops out of school to earn a living, sacrificing her dreams for her child.

There's no word yet on the date.By Medha Setia | Opening Doorz Editorial | May 11, 2021 One Republican board member was unable to attend Tuesday’s meeting.Īnother school board meeting will have to be set for discussion and to take action. The deadlock means the books remain on the shelves for now. The board, however, was undecided with three Democratic members voting to keep the books without restrictions and three Republican members wanting to set specific age limits on those books as a compromise. “We are just people, and we want our stories to be told the same way other people’s stories are told. He feels removing the books would reject the experiences of many at the high school. These are the problems queer kids are facing and we have to talk about them,” Ashton said. “You can’t talk about queer people without talking about sexual assault, rape or bullying.

Sophomore Ashton Almeter disagrees, saying these stories are relevant. “Sexually explicit material is not protected under the First Amendment when we’re talking about minors,” Derek Rosani, a Newtown resident who supported removing the books, said.

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