My senior year, I missed 37 days of school and was suspended multiple times for cutting class or leaving campus to get Wendy’s. High school was a miserable time because I didn’t fit neatly into any particular group, I had no support system, and no attention span. I hated it. https://twitter.com/amythefabulous/status/1285582162499112971">https://twitter.com/amythefab...

School in general is garbage. Learning is incredible, but when you don’t absorb information by listening to a teacher talk at you for 60-90 minutes straight and your teachers assume you’re lazy because you can’t concentrate for more than 5 minutes at a time, what’s the point?

You’re stuffing kids into overfilled classrooms, teaching them the same way when they all learn differently. Now they’re doing distance learning and you’re expecting them to be able to follow curriculum on their own?

As an adult, this has been a wildly stressful time. I couldn’t even make it through most of the emails my job sent me. I can’t imagine having to go from the structure of a classroom to distance learning and I know I would’ve struggled too. That shouldn’t involve a judge.

This pandemic has been awful. Sure, it’s been damaging to the economy, but more than that, it’s been damaging to human lives in so many ways. But also, it’s been an incredible opportunity. It’s been an opportunity to look at all of the broken systems across our country and

figure out ways to reinvent them, rebuild them in more practical ways. This pandemic could’ve strengthened our country. We could’ve explored ways to change education, our healthcare system, ways to make families more independent and prepared for disasters

But we didn’t because our main concern is never people- it’s always the economy and profits. And I’m not an economist, but I just don’t understand how investing in the betterment of your society isn’t also a major investment in your economy in the long run.