to be in an area filled with other sleep deprived and depressed teens, is to know you're not alone.
yes, I sleep in class. no, it's not because I'm lazy. I am the very body that's made up of my 4.0, my hard work and effort put me into a state where all I could think of was random words and numbers that didn't mean anything in the end.
I work too hard for you to say I'm lazy. that I'm slacking.
you're damn right that my school is my job and don't ever think you can degrade me from it. I'm here for myself, I put on the fake smile that everyone in the school wears.
you're the educator, so you should be educated.
If my shoulders, or my legs, or anything on my body distracts the boys in my school, then that's their problem. it's their problem that the natural human body distracts them from getting an education. stop promoting the whole "fit my agenda so you can express yourself less" thing.
stop promoting my self - doubt and support me by my self - worth. I'm more than a body with a label. I'm a brain, I'm the God for the temple that is my body.
I'm an individual, not a group.
-j.l
