With Easter and Passover behind us, the school year’s end and summer vacation are just a blink-of-an-eye away!  But as all parents, grandparents, well-meaning friends and relatives will attest: before slipping into flip-flops and heading for the beach, there’s end-of-year school work to be done.

The excitement of planning and attending communions, prom, barbecues, end-of-year parties, after-party parties (you-name- it) lure us away from the not-so-fun responsibilities like research papers, final exams and the homework and review necessary to insure success long after this coming summer ends.

There probably aren’t too many people reading this who would disagree.  But a good number are probably wondering what this has to do with Frank Scaturro running for Congress.

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Very few people even know that there will be a primary election on June 24 to pick the Congressional candidates for the November 2014 election.  In many Long Island school districts, Tuesday, June 24 lands right in the middle of end-of-school-year EVERYTHING! 

With all the excitement – it will be easy to forget to go out and vote.

While we’re full of advice for our kids, grandkids, school kids, the kids next door, how seriously do we take our own advice?   We tell young people to be responsible citizens, but do we show them by our example? 

What does it say to our kids if we “forget” to vote?

How would parents feel if their child came home from school and - when asked how a final exam went - shrugged:

“I forgot to take it.  No problem, I’ll just take an F.”
or
“I think I flunked. Guess I forgot to study.”

Can our Country afford to “take an F” if you forget to vote?  We want our kids to be responsible.  But how responsible is it to let others decide what kind of Country we’ll be leaving to our children and grandchildren if we don’t do our homework and cast an informed, educated vote for the people who are supposed to be representing us in Washington?

On Monday, you can start doing your homework.  Frank Scaturro will be at the Long Beach Public Library for a “Meet Congressional Candidates” forum, along with his primary opponent.  Why not stop in and start studying for your June 24 Primary vote?