“I feel like they think, since we’re teenagers, ‘You’re just a teenager. You’re over dramatic. It’s just your age. You’ll get past it,’ and this and that.”
— Focus Group Report
This website is dedicated to the valuable lessons we can learn from students’ own experiences about how to create better schools. Decisions about schooling are often made without listening deeply to students themselves. But students are in the best position to understand what they need in order to do well in school.
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