Nicely done, PK. 
 

I’m around kids all day every day, what with guest teaching, and hanging with my my granddaughter. I don’t think most kids know how bad it’s going to get. Refugees from the fires in California, the droughts in Guatemala, Sudanese who have spent years in refugee camps while American peers were learning how to code and where to hide in the classroom if a Bad Man comes to the school, how to be “very very quiet, like a little animal”….those kids know. 

Puertoriquenos who can never return to the island, kids who hunt but don’t see birds or deer like they used to, farm kids whose parents are trying to sell off the stock, understand that their lives are not a priority.

That the grownups in charge right now are not paying attention, don’t really care at all. Teachers and Mommy and Daddy care, but they are powerless to stop the raging fires or the cracked earth or the Bad Man with a gun.

Here’s to the aware ones, the angry youth, the rebels using every organizing  tool to remind us that they do deserve a future.