A Modest Proposal: Review and My Topic

My 11 year old daughter came home from school yesterday upset. A boy in gym had touched her inappropriately.She was upset and embarrassed to tell me. My first reaction is why am I hearing about this from my daughter? Why didn't the school call me and inform me, giving assurance such things will not be tolerated? Being a mom of three girls I feel to protect them I am going to have to get a little psycho. This experience has inspired me to write about American Children and how society affects them. Children are our future, we all should care deeply about them.

While speaking to the administration at my daughters school today, this is how I felt. It is time to start teaching kids personal responsibility and consequences. I do not see violence ending in our schools until then.

When I first read A Modest Proposal, I had to go back and re read it a few times. I was like, "is he really talking about eating kids"? He had seemed so sincere and concerned about these starving women and children. However, I feel like he wrote it to send a message. He wanted to make a proposal so shocking people would have to listen. Putting light onto desperation and starvation in such a way where one cannot deny its existence.