A Last week 1 sat in a room with a group of newly elected State FFA Officers. As we were going through paperwork and other necessary details, one of our adult staff members told the group that if they hadn't already provided it, they would need to give us copies of their auto and health insurance policies, and that it was their responsibility to maintain both throughout their year of service. One boy dropped his head and quietly said that the health insurance information he had turned in with his application was no longer valid because his dad had lost his job and the family no longer had any health insurance and he didn't know when they would have it again. You could tell he was embarrassed, and to be honest I was surprised because although I didn't know him well, he had always seemed to be one of the kids whose family was financially comfortable. What surprised me even more, though, was two of the other kids immediately telling him that he should check into the state's insurance plan for childrenin low-income families because they were on that and it covered them even though they had graduated from high school. By this time next year I will know them and their families well, but at this point 1 would not have thought any of them came from lowincome families.
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