We Asked 8 New York City Teenagers: How do you feel about returning to school?
It feels like the ones in power do not really care about us. New York City has the nation’s largest school system with approximately 1.1 million students. If we all go back, it is likely that interaction with our peers and strangers could cause many of us to contract the virus; cases are bound to […]
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Waiting for the World to Come Back
I came to the U.S. from Guinea in West Africa when I was 17, just last year, to escape abuse by the uncle I lived with. I journeyed by plane to Ecuador, then on buses through Central America and Mexico. I was taken from an ICE detention center near the border to a shelter in […]
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Dealing With Disappointment
In my high school, Fordham HS for the Arts, students perform many concerts, musicals, and dance recitals for the whole school in our big auditorium. In my dance class, the spring semester is devoted to preparing for our performance. During the summer, all dancers were contacted to start choreographing a solo relating to the show’s […]
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Time Travel, Mind Reading, and New Families
Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn’t Ask For by Sara Pascoe is about a foster child who discovers her powers as an “integrator”—commonly known as a witch—in present-day England. When we meet Raya, 14, she’s in her new placement in the English countryside with her 11-year-old foster brother Jake and foster parent Angie. […]
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