For two million years, humans have interacted with and needed one another to survive. Through physical stability in the past and emotional satisfaction in the present, the necessity of human interaction and familiarity throughout one’s life is imperative to his or her success. Humans may mold the world around them and build it up as their own, but their environments shape them in return.

Gov. Mike Parsons signed a bill on July 11 that will give Missouri students an additional week of summer vacation.  Missouri schools are mandated to start no sooner than 14 days before Labor Day. Consequently, the earliest the 2020-21 school year can start is Aug. 24.