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We Should Cherish Our Children's Freedom to Think
In the essay written by Kie Ho, "We should cherish our children's freedom to think" talks about the American education system. Also, in the essay the writer mentioned that some immigrant’s families who do suffer because of the educational system and says that the high schools are not that good. In the essay, it says that in the United States of America children do have the chance to think and to be more creative. However, the system in the writer view is not effective due to many reasons. The first one is that, as what the writer had mentioned in the high school many students do not know the differences between some words, while in some countries when people graduate from high school they do

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