They told us 20 days before school starts... 😡😤

Mystery Happened

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00:00I'm just appalled and enraged because what am I supposed to do with my future?

00:04We were put in the dark. We were ghosted and we were made to shut up.

00:08I did not shut up. I called the news and I let them know what they were doing with the school.

00:12The school sent an email that has just put loads of futures at stake.

00:16Not only have I been tossed around from school to school and I finally find a school that I enjoy

00:20and that I made friends in, you ripped it out from underneath me.

00:24What am I supposed to do? What are the seniors who were supposed to graduate this year supposed to do?

00:29We received an email about 1.30 in the afternoon. They decided to close the school down.

00:34I was absolutely enraged.

00:36The rogue email left students panicking and lost. Imagine their reaction to the reason for this.

00:41We don't know where the funding went. They say they are in amounts of debt.

00:46No parent was ever, ever communicated with this, but they're blaming it on low enrollment rates.

00:53Technically, you have to have 127 to 200 students. There was 121.

00:58But if they had the grant money, they would have not been able to close.

01:02Wait till you find out what the board did with the funding.

01:05The board misplaced the money or they pocketed it and I'm going to say it or swept it under the rug.

01:10And I literally said at the meeting, where did the money go?

01:13Because you're going to tell me that in three years that that school has been built,

01:17that you are three years into debt already.

01:20Even if there was a board meeting, they would have never been honest with us.

01:24And what you've heard so far is just the tip of the iceberg.

01:28I hope you all realize how horribly this has affected us.

01:33Not only am I scrambling to figure out something to do with the rest of my life,

01:37and not only am I scrambling with like what, less than two weeks to put together an entire portfolio,

01:42showing my skills so I can build out Lincoln Park, can't be as good as this school.

01:46Because I like this year.

01:48This is the future that the students could have had.

01:51MITCS is a Midland PA, a pathway charter school.

01:54You either can go directly to college or you can graduate with a technical degree.

02:00If they had continued this program, these kids would have graduated to go on to work for Google and Apple and Microsoft.

02:07I was flabbergasted and I was absolutely enraged because not only were we expecting to have a school to come back to,

02:15we don't have options.

02:17These kids are the future.

02:18There's one kid who broke my heart.

02:20She is graduating early and she's worried about where she's going to graduate because all she wants to do is have a career in art.

02:26These kids go to these pathway schools because they want to be themselves and their voices need to be heard.

02:33Like a hundred, a hundred thousand plus people saw me and I'm really thankful for and surprised by how supportive you are.

02:43And I thank you for that.

02:46I know these pathway schools do more than that.

02:48They give these kids financial freedom.

02:49They give them jobs that they can connect to for the rest of their lives.

02:52They are really fantastic human beings and they are really going to make a difference in this world.

02:58I know it for a fact.

02:59You know, you want change in the future?

03:02These kids are the change.

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