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For those of you unfamiliar with PostSecret, it’s a blog that posts postcards mailed every week from people all over the world. These postcards are creatively decorated and written upon, and all expose secrets of their authors’, ranging from the mundane to the heinous to the heartbreaking. Today, I saw this one:

Consider these types of reactions and the pressures we accept as a natural part of school, all the way back to elementary school science fairs. Then, try to convince yourself that school isn’t a fundamentally coercive institution.