Reflections From a Formerly Disengaged Teen

Reflections From a Formerly Disengaged Teen

I didn’t want to go to college. Sometimes, when I look at how far I’ve come, I have to remember that fact, and then I become thankful all over again for the path I’m on today.  Struggling with debilitating anxiety, only heightened by the realities of a chronically under-resourced public education system, I didn’t even think I’d reach age 18. By 10th grade, in a large public high school in Nashville, Tennessee, I understood one thing: School made…