The Backpack Drop Zone: One Sixth-Grade Truth That Exposed Our Quiet Crisis

bag had turned into a lightning rod.

About how kids had turned into talking points.

About how Tommy had stood at a microphone and said what adults were too afraid to say:

What if we don’t make it?

I got up and went to my kitchen table.

I pulled out a legal pad.

And I wrote a letter.

Not to the district.

Not to the internet.

To my students.

Because the only thing continue reading …