Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

School

  • On a trip to the campus bookstore on the last day of residency, I rush to get clothes and coffee before our final workshop starts.

  • Mental health, anxiety, depression. Teens are facing more challenges than ever. Because we made it this way.

  • The purpose of school is to learn. Not to avoid learning. So why then do we so often choose to avoid learning?

  • We offer our high school students a variety of extra-curricular activities. But little about it is truly optional.

  • A student at a Catholic school was forced to remove a sticker from her computer and the school is oblivious to the irony. Proof we’re totally insane over politics. A student at a Connecticut Catholic school was told to remove a sticker from her laptop. A Catholic student was told by her school to remove…

  • Every parent wants the best for their kid. We want them to have every opportunity and live the life of their dreams. We want them to have every chance at success. We want it so bad. But do we ever stop to ask if our hopes for them are the right hopes or our sense…