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

is just watching me swim.”

One by one, the stories poured out. They were the stories of modern America, seen through the eyes of eleven-year-olds.

We heard about a brother deployed overseas who came back “different” and scares the family. We heard about a grandmother who passed away in a nursing home alone because they couldn’t afford to visit. We heard continue reading …