Dear+Mr.+President

Katherine Asmus 141 Hope Hill Rd Wallingford, Ct 06492 September 1, 2008 President-elect Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500

Dear Barack Obama, Congratulations on winning the Presidency. I am really looking forward to the next four years. I’m really happy that we have a Democrat in the White House, instead of a Republican. I supported you from the start. As a student, education is a big issue for me. We need to prepare students for the 21st century. How many student do you think know what a wiki is? How many of them do you think know how to set up a blog? What do you think is more valuable to know, how many square yards Canada is, or how to set up a video conference with students in Canada? I think we should stop dragging around backpacks filled textbooks and binders filled with hundreds papers. I think we should replace these school supplies with laptops. So many people use computers and the internet for so many different things. We use the computer to get information, post ideas, get publicity, to play games and many other things. Last year I spent about eighty dollars on school supplies. If I complete fourteen years of school I would have spent about $1120. The laptop I'm writing this letter on cost about $800. If I buy a laptop and use it for the fourteen years I would save about twenty-three dollars a year. Twenty-three dollars may not seem like a lot but in this struggling economy you need to find as many opportunities to save as possible. I think we should train teachers to teach students to prepare for the real world. Thank you for taking the time for sitting down and reading this letter. I hope you consider some of this information. Sincerely,

Katherine Asmus