I Am For Anything That Makes Teens

...the Magnificent Seven Consisted Of One Swimmer Of Color, A Representative From Each Extreme Of The Educational Spectrum, A Muscle Man, A Giant, A Chameleon, And A One-legged Psychopath. When I Envision Us Walking Seven Abreast Through The Halls Of Cutter High, Decked Out In The Sacred Blue And Gold, My Heart Swells.

Being An Outsider Means Not Being Heard, Not Having A Voice. It Means Being Treated As A Second-class Citizen, Being Diminished In The Eyes Of Others. We Have All Felt This Way At One Time Or Another, But Some Feel It More Consistently. Unfortunately, Our Schools Often Do Not Embrace The Talents Of Many Of Their Occupants.

You Put Yourself Out There In The Truest Way You Can And Hope Others Do The Same. You'll Connect Or You Won't, But You Did What You Could.

So You Didn’t Tell Me It Was A Messed-up Idea To Keep This All A Secret Because. . .” “because Experience Is The Only Teacher,” Hey-soos Says. “even If I Could Have Told You, It Would Have Been A Lecture. Why Do You Think Kids Don’t Listen To Their Parents, Or People Don’t Leave Churches And Do What The Preacher Tells Them? There’s Only One Thing That’s Universal.” “what’s That?” “the Truth.

There's Only One Thing To Say To The Censors: Shut Up.