Blake blogs on the Poverty Simulation

I went to the poverty simulation at Beth Torah last Sunday (November 8th). At the simulation we were assigned a role, I was a 9 year old boy with learning disabilities, and you were put into a family. I had a dad who worked full time, a sister who went to school, had a job, and had a baby, she was 19, and my niece who was one year old. To help my family survive I had two jobs and i went to school. I learned that in times of desperation people will do whatever they have to to live. There were families in the simulation who had to steal. There were also teenagers who dropped out of school. I enjoyed the simulation mainly because I got to feel only a small small part of what some people go through every day and it made me more aware.