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In an article by The Dallas Morning News tells of a strike in Mexico over a education reform. The Mexican legislature passed a law to defy the old style political machine that is The National Teachers Union.

 The Mexican teachers have decided to go on strike because of this defiance. They flooded the street blocking one of the main streets that lead to a major airport forcing people to leave their cars and rush through the streets on foot in order to catch their flights. Mexico spends more than any other industrialized nation per student yet has the lowest academic achievements.

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In a recent article whose author is unknown that was published in the New York Daily News entitled "Shutdown Impact: 13 Days after the federal government closed, affects are felt across many agencies, “the author informs his reader that the shutdown has affected just about every aspect of our lives. One being education. Another one being all the national parks have shutdown except for the ones which the state they are in picked up the tab to reopen them.

Overall the affect of the government shutdown has been relatively minimal on education, but there has been some damage done like some university researchers cant apply for grants or access government databases. With out grants from the government research may come to a screeching halt. The lack of access to databases could also be catastrophic to the research that is going on at universities.

The affect on the national parks is huge the only ones that are open have to be funded by the state they are in, and even this is temporary because the states only have so much money that can be spent. Barricades have been put up at the entrances to all closed parks to keep people out. School field trips are being cancelled, veterans cant go see memorials, and vacations are being cancelled all because of a few men in Washington cant get along.

This has happened in the past. The government also shutdown back in 1995-1996 when Bill Clinton was president.

The government shutdown has had a giant affect on our lives from education to relaxation. We have had to put our lives on hold.