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Sep 2016
Thirty percent, that's
The number of high schoolers
Who are depressive

Not to mention those
With eating disorders, who
Are too pushed aside

With anxiety,
Where teens are told to "calm down",
It doesn't look good

Add some drugs in there
Underage drinking, smoking
Pills and shooting up

Add it all up, and
At least half of the school is
Batshit insane now

I'm starting to think
That we might need to rethink
How we treat students

Because when most of
A group has mental problems
When most students would

Rather cut themselves
Rather get high or wasted
Rather starve themselves

Rather hide their fear
Rather sneak out and run off
Rather **** themselves

Than go to a school
Than maybe the school is part
of the bigger cause

When a system makes
Most of its users insane
Its shut down like that

But when schools do it
We don't bat an eye, and we
Don't even change it

But maybe its time
That we fix the cause of this
And change our high schools
Breeze-Mist
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Breeze-Mist  19/F/North America
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