It must be strange being a kid in America since 2017. First, your teachers have to be in damage control mode all the time because the president is acting like a bully, which is empowering bullies at school. Then, your history and English teachers have to real quick change the syllabus to exclude the civil rights movement of the 1960s and To Kill a Mockingbird, or if you're in elementary school, stuff like Junebug and a whole Scholastic Book Fair's worth of picture books suddenly go missing from the school library, all of them having to do with Black people.
Then, you have the longest spring break of your life in 2020, which starts in 5th grade and ends in 6th grade. Everyone around you has to wear masks for a couple weeks, while kids' loudmouth dads make a big deal about their Constitutional rights. Half your class is consistently out sick, more yellow slips are issued to teachers than your mom ever saw when she was in school. About 1/3 of your entire graduating class dropped dead and no one is acknowledging that anything is wrong, so you just assume this is the way life is, because you don't know any different, and you have trouble understanding why your parents can't relate to your situation.
Now that you're in high school and a bit more aware of politics, you're suddenly noticing that teachers are getting fired for no apparent reason, but it's got something to do with an old social networking website and possibly Tesla Coils. Still holding onto that childlike notion of going to school one day and having the teacher say, "Class dismissed forever", you might think the disbandment of the US Department of Education means you'll get to go on a neverending summer break, but some of your parents' worry has rubbed off on you and you start to wonder if school is really so bad. In any case, you get the distinct impression that you're having to deal with things that no one in the history of time has ever had to deal with, and it's simultaneously easy to understand and profoundly confusing. No one can give you a straight answer about what's going on because everyone has a different story, a different explanation, a different excuse.
All you know for certain is that something has changed, so you take solace in Frutiger Aero and Lo-Fi Girl and hope that everything works out.