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“In any given week, you could go to three meetings and hear the same report three times.”

“Too many people are coming to us with too many asks.”

There is a distinct gap between what it takes to make it to graduation and being ready for adulthood.

I remember looking from one staff person to another. I saw confusion, anger, outright indignation and then I found my own face, hiding in the expressions of a few—a deep sense of regret and shame that came with an acknowledged truth. Just moments before, in the privacy of my office, I had practiced all that I wanted to say but it was even harder than I imagined to say it aloud.