Summary Of Holler If You Hear Me

The Minnesota Department of Health has released the results of a student survey “with 29% of students reporting long-term mental health problems compared to 23% in 2019 and 18% in 2016” (2022 Minnesota Student Survey results released). Mind racing, students in schools are having a mental battle with the issues they are facing and are trapped in their own minds as if “everything is one dark cloud of mist” (Michie 127). In the autobiography Holler If You Hear Me written by Gregory Michie, the students show clear signs of mental health struggles in and out of school. Gregory Michie’s students have told their stories about growing up in Chicago, having little to no motivation to continue their education or life, having lack of support, and so

People have their opinions of Chicago, you’ll hear different things from anyone you’d talk to, but rumors and stereotypes aren’t things that don’t come from a backstory or base ground. Talk spreads like a wild forest fire and articles are going to be published, but one article in particular talks about a “school that calls the police on students every other day” (Richards & Cohen). When it comes to students who come from a hard upbringing, the police are people you are taught to be afraid of. When a student is under the stress of not only school and life at home, but to add the pressure of police and security is just adding another issue to a student’s issues. Take the student Reggie from Holler If You Hear Me for example who was “attacked by a cop” (Michie 155). When a student’s mental health is already deteriorating and then a cop, someone who they are taught to fear, that student will most likely have a reaction, and it wouldn’t be a good one. When it comes to cops, race comes into play, and we saw this with Reggie who “was the only black kid in the upper grades, and 1 of only 3 out of the more than 900 students” (Michie 156). The fear that would be built into a student who is already struggling mentally, but is also struggling with their race is absurd. The last thing that you should do for “young people who need support, to think of them as delinquents, is basically the worst you could do” (Richards &