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CPS students headed to Puerto Rico for spring break: 'Personally, I'd much rather help other people out'

I have a soft spot for stories about young people on a mission.

I'm inspired, and a little amazed, at the kids who look around at the world they'll inherit and decide to go ahead and start changing it now - not when they're paying taxes or raising kids or feeling unfulfilled at work. They don't need the trappings of adulthood to wake them up to inequality and need. They look around and see plenty of both, and then they look around for ways to solve them.

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