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What sucks about high school?

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The rules 🤬

This teacher 📚

No money 💰

Boring classes 💤

Mental Health 📉

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Apathy

Nobody gives a fuck.

Nobody respects teachers

So class gets loud

Anxiety

Feet tapping all class

Insecurity

Smart people think they’re dumb

Competitiveness

wha- wha- whadidya get?!

No mental health help

"Guidance" counselors

COLLEGE APPLICATION STRESS

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Decreasing Violence

People hiding in the bathroom, too scared to go to lunch.

Start a club in literally 2 seconds

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Get a COOL INTERNSHIP as a HIGH SCHOOLER

1. Find a cool company 2. Look up what they do and 3. Wow them with a five sentence email.

Living with losing a friend or loved one

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phones can fix school

for the same reason your teachers hate them...

Fight awful policy

Prevent it before it happens with AI

Find a mentor:

someone with a cool career who'll help you ~thrive~

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REAL TIME VIDEO OF YOUR ENEMIES COLLAPSING

If your school has cliques and drama to an extreme, change the culture.

WHAT TO SAY WHEN YOU'RE IN TROUBLE

Here's how to be in... less trouble.

End the Small jabs

No more insults in the halls and middle school shit

Fighting Harrassment Culture

Guys do awful stuff to girls, nobody says anything.

Anonymously Report Harassment, Cyber-bullying, or SA

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Get your name pronounced right

DON'T LET TEACHERS CALL YOU BY THE WRONG NAME ALL YEAR, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY.

Adults talking to you like you're five years old.

Recognize and respond when people act like you can't think or do for yourself. You can, bestie.

Feel stuck in class?

Get consistent free time during class WHILE fixing the vibes with your teacher.

Admin don't communicate

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They literally don't ask you for advice, don't tell you before they change something, and when shit goes down, they don't say anything.

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The Q your parents never ask could help you do better

EVEN MORE School Life Hacks

Don't worry, we got you.

No money in the district

Fundraise with proven strats

Conflict is *okay*

tell your teacher something's up... start with a bloodborne pathogen test

No urinal dividers?

Stressed & Queer?

Explore interactive guides and LGBTQ+ curated resources for stress, stigma, & identity :)

No good classes? Teach one yourself.

Seriously, End the Bad Vibes.

No bullying. No toxic groupchats.

Do male teachers make a lil too much eye contact?

RESPOND TO PEOPLE CROSSING YOUR BOUNDARIES.

Strictness, old teachers, mean teachers... we got you.

Trapped at your desk?

Are your teachers bullies?

Choose from three solutions that hold your teachers accountable and change the culture.

Lunch awful?

Become a school lunch entrepreneur.

Get a schoolwide day off

Show them who's boss

Schools manage $50 million a year. How do they work?

Control 100k, selfie diplomacy, hostile takeover, policy change.

Is class a waste of time? Prove it and change it.

All it takes is pulling out your phone timer... and using our nationwide dataset to prove there's room for growth.


If people arm wrestle for participation points

End the GPA obsession with a participation point boycott.

Clean up the toxic vibes

Use the best behavioral psych research in the GAME to fix it all: from toxic groupchats to bathroom vaping.

12 ways to be way happier in school

All the life hacks you didn't know you needed

Bring back nap time

Sleep during school. And not *just* in your boring classes.

Essay due in two days? Haven’t started?

We can help—all you have to do is copy-paste.

Get a microwave.

Stop eating cold sandwiches, bestie.


Boring classes?

Give your teacher anonymous, constructive feedback that will make class better.


Beef with a bestie? Conflict doesn't have to be *bad*

Did they post a pic where they looked great and you looked like a gremlin? We got you.

Bathrooms plain... gross?

Cutting class costs your school 💰💰

Use that as negotiating leverage.

Toxic comments about eating

Respond without causing drama!

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Education doesn’t work without your voice

Every school has its own toxic vibes: the wrong people, the wrong culture, stress, straight up violence, everybody staring out the window thinking, "What's the point?"


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Judgy People
Cliques and drama to an extreme
Bullying
Straight up.
Violence
People hiding in the bathroom
Small jabs
insults in the halls, middle school shit
Harassment
Guys do awful shit to girls, nobody says anything.
Nobody shows up
because the school is awful
Emotional unavailability
*cough* men
Boredom
Window-Staring 101
Apathy
Nobody gives a fuck.
Nobody respects teachers
So class gets loud
Anxiety
Feet tapping all class
Insecurity
Smart people think they’re dumb
Discipline is HARSH
Straight up.
Extreme Competition
wha- wha- whadidya get?!
We feel powerless
Trapped at your desk
Racism tolerated or endorsed.
People transfer schools because of it.
Admin don't communicate
What's their name, even?
Gross bathrooms
Nobody poopin.
No mental health help
"Guidance" counselors
No money in the district
teachers are burnt out
There's ALWAYS drama
Beef w my "bestie"
HS feels like a dead end
It’s McDonalds or fame
Strictness
Trapped at your desk?
What's the point of ____ class?
We're not learning what matters
Social divides
rich/poor, black/white


College and Career

Internship!
3-step guide for students
Find a mentor
Research + career help
Win at college apps
Everything you need

Feel Better

Bring back naptime
policy change 101
Fix school lunch
eat something.

Teacher Relationships

Anonymous Feedback
Anonymous Feedback
Hard convos
facing teachers
Strict Teachers
Fight back
Misprounced names
Call that out
Proof they care
your teachers care
Get outta trouble
what to say

Life Skills

Cold Email
3-step guide for students
Pitch Yourself
Research + career help
Networking
dealing with pressure
Fighting power
it builds your resume
Small asks
getting leverage

How school works

School 101
The basics
Power
who controls what?
Schoolwide day off
Tested at public schools
Money
$50 million budget

Kill the mean girls vibes

Conflict is OK
The tea + the basics
Girl talk 101
how to handle it
Fix school culture
Tested at 56 public schools
Report Harassment
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