I, you know, one key thing about our school is that students were really directed as they transition from middle school to high school to, to be an advocate for themselves and to go speak to their guidance counselor if they needed help to speak to their teacher when they needed support to come to an A P and have a direct conversation if they had a feedback about a teacher. And, you know, and I wish, I think we could have done a better job in having some sort of like formal training for that. But it was just something that we echoed over and over and over again. Um when we met with students in small groups, when we met with students as part of their studio, with their grade team meetings, their counselor meetings. Um and I think that, you know, it took time to kind of believe in that process. Like, hey, if I went to go see an assistant principal first, this isn't like a taboo experience, right? It's really important to have a conversation, but two like they will help you, they will support you. It might not mean that you get what you want, but there is like that open lines of communication. Um And I often found that like the earlier students came in as like freshmen or sophomores, like the much more willing they were, you know, to come in much later on. And so just kind of establishing those opening steps of that relationship. Um and, and, and helping them kind of with whatever they, they needed and it wasn't always a concern. Right. It could have been something super positive.
