This year, I decided to switch focus.
I asked young people, peer educators and peer educator alumni to answer the question: âWhat would you like to see happen in 2021?â The following responses were not edited for content.
Anonymous: I want to see more equity in education. Online education in my high school is a joke. I see friends in other districts with actual assignments and real learning. My teachers are phoning it in. Please donât use my name because I donât want people to know which district is mine. But I would really like a change.
Aujalae: I would like to see a vaccine in 2021, and people be treated with respect. A lot of stuff has happened this year. 2020âs been killing off so many great people. I am grateful that me, my family, my friends and their families made it through, and will be able to move into next year. A vaccine is the biggest thing I want. Iâm really not thinking of anything else, but I just want this year to be better. 2020âs been really toxic, and I havenât been a fan of that. It even put my mom in the hospital, my friendâs dog died, my other friend had something done to her that was flat out wrong, but everybody is OK now.