On Mental Health and Schools
These days everyone seems to be talking about mental health. Especially the shockingly terrible state of young people’s mental health. We...
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Please Don't Start a Youth Program
This blog post is dedicated to all the executive directors of major nonprofits getting ready to apply for grants to “Get Out The Vote”...
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A Young School Abolitionist
12 years ago this month I dropped out of high school. I didn’t know about school abolition then - I was in 11th grade and attended a...
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The Myth of Police-Free Schools
Since the transformative, anti-racist uprisings of summer 2020 in response to the police murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, we...
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Stop Arresting Kids, Start Listening to Them
After the tragic shooting at Oxford High School on November 30th, 2021, hundreds of schools across Michigan received copycat threats that...
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What is a Youth Organizer?
As a Youth Organizer, the most common question I get is, “But how do you get paid?” And the answer is... I usually don’t. Youth...
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Was 2020 the Year We Abolished Schools?
When I look back on 2020 and the many, many injustices we’ve collectively faced, I find myself wondering… Was this the year we abolished...
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Whose Schools?
Over Labor Day weekend, I had the honor to march alongside dozens of Detroit students and teachers in demand of an Online Learning Bill...
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An Online Learning Bill of Rights
We’re not going back to school this year, let’s face that fact together. We’re not going back. Even if administrators do manage to force...
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Schools Aren’t Safe from Covid, and They Weren’t Safe Before
The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare all of the festering inequalities of our society. Many are asking, what will we do with the children?
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