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Fall 2017: “Standing Up for Our Neighbors” Powerful Voice Winner Logan Bailey Crews
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Yes For Teachers Archive - YES! Magazine
Logan Bailey Crews, an eleventh grade student of Janet DePasquale at Kirkwood High School in St. Louis, Missouri, read and responded to the online YES!
Being suicidal at school is feeling so vulnerable that every day is a push further to the edge of the skyscraper.
Being suicidal at school is giving up class periods to collapse on the bathroom floor, hoping that no one finds me.
The overdramatic teenage culture that worships the aesthetic of mental illness but avoids its consequences creates an environment where students who do feel suicidal don’t feel safe or accepted.
Every day, I heard ignorant people mock mental illness and the affected, like me, remained silent.
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