SCHOOL.
A public institution where you wait 7 hours for that bell to ring so you can go the fuck home.
It’s prison for the innocent.
It’s fresh-faced 5-year-olds being abandoned by their parents. It’s kids having panic attacks in the bathroom after practicing lock-down drills to protect themselves against school shooters.
It’s teachers ignoring the bullies, over and over— and teachers BEING the bullies. It’s popping pills at 12 years old and getting fucked up because grades are more important than mental health.
It’s waking up every weekday morning wishing you never did. It’s headaches and ADHD from stress, and tired eyes from lack of rest. And it’s the sigh of relief when the bell rings...until it all starts again the next day.
It’s being taught how to multiply x and y and divide a and b, but not being taught how to do our taxes. It’s being taught about all of Henry VIII’s wives but not being told about the environmental destruction threatening our lives ans how to change it. It’s being educated about safe sex— but not about consent. It’s how far can we push the sexist dress codes. It’s being force-fed information no longer relevant to the world we live in and being treated like a child— but expected to act like adults when it’s convenient. It’s the older generation saying ‘kids nowadays’ are lazy, rebellious, and unambitious, when what they really are....is DESPERATE.
Desperate to survive, to learn about real here and now world problems, desperate to escape.
