Why I March

This is my story of what happened at the Capitol on Monday....I think that this is important for voters especially to hear! My name is Sedona Ortega and I am 14 years old. I am writing because I want to shed some light on what happened on the third floor of the House of Representatives when I went to share my opinions with our State Representative David Stringer about the #RedforEd movement and education funding.   Our conversation began with Mr. Stringer asking me questions about what sustainable education funding meant to me. He was referring to a handwritten letter we had left for him. This was fine, however he kept referring to our letter and the meeting we were having with him as “little”. At that point, my mother (an elementary teacher who is one of the hardest working people I know) kindly asked that he not use the adjective “little” to describe our meeting because it felt belittling, and made it seem like what we were there to talk to him about, wasn’t importa...