McKenna Hundt

I sit here in the stall wondering what I am? What I mean to people as tears roll down my face. There’s no reason for why I'm here. We walk into this place where we know we will get judged we walk in hoping we get to see someone fail today, and when we do we get excited about it. Instead of bringing out peers up and hoping the best for them we sit here and hope they fail we set each other up for failure. There’s no positive outcome in this all, we all have our own battles were fighting at home hoping that when we go to school it will be forgotten, but no when we come to school we have to fight not only to have good grades and succeed in school we have to fight to stay alive to make it through one more day here and if I make it through one more day then try the next. But it never gets easier, in fact, it gets harder to push through each day hoping to make it out alive. We all sit here but nobody sees the hurt others have, it's easy to sit here and say I'm fine just tir...

I'm an observer. I see you all I hear all your comments to each other. I'm sitting in class, I hear you whispering about some guy or girl. I see you laugh when a student gets a problem wrong in front of the class. I see you pick on that student because they're “too fat.” I watch you look at that girl in disgust because she's not wearing makeup. I watch you look at that guy is disgust because he doesn't have abs. But what I really question is when did we get like this? When did we get so happy when we see someone fail? Why does it make us so happy to see someone cry? Nobody knows the answer. Let me tell you one thing. We allow people to change us. Each morning we wake up, the first thing we do is look at social media. We look at these images of how we should be. Students walk into this school already having to deal with pain from home, then having to deal with the pain from others at school. They sit in class wondering if they belong here anymore if anyone woul...