School’s out. It’s midsummer. But a new school year is only weeks away for many young people. How are students feeling right now? Are they free and easy to enjoy their vacations or are they anxious about returning to school in the fall?
Their answers might surprise you. They touch on school shootings, about lawmakers loosening gun restrictions, and about what it means to walk into classrooms where safety is never guaranteed. Their common thread--what they share most of all--is a sense urgency, hope, and their compelling plea to the adults in their lives to not to give up trying to make their schools and their lives safer.
Credits: Rick Barlis, Michael Finan, Gavin Ransom, Meher Talreja, Ayaan Moledina, Richard Weiss, Vijay Satyanarayana PMP, Jim Papoulis, Sara Shikowitz, Naarah Asamoa, Lee Baronian and the students at Halsey JHS 175 in Queens NY.