It’s hard to walk through school without hearing complaints. Everyone has bad days at school and complains; however, we never stop to realize what we have. When everything is given to us, it’s hard to see what things are worth. Even in a recession, every child is given a free education.

Around the world, that isn’t the case. In Kenya, few are given the opportunity for a proper education. American students just assume they deserve an education. Others don’t get one at all. Jeanine Cinco has seen this first hand. In her two years volunteering at an elementary school in Nairobi, Kenya, Jeanine only had two students with the money and support to enter high school. “It’s very different,” Cinco said. “In Kenya, [students] would beg for homework.”

It’s time for FHN students to appreciate what they have. It’s time to finish work on time, study for tests or at least stop complaining in order to appreci- ate the value of an education that some will never receive.