A student points their phone at a worksheet. Before they finish reading the question, AI fills in the answer. This is the classroom now. Students have access to more information than any generation in history. And they're worse at figuring out what's actually true. That's not a coincidence. That's a system working exactly as designed.
That's where this story starts. I'm Cat Diaz—a science educator, Gainesville native, twelve years in the classroom. This fall, a man stood outside Florida elementary and middle schools every morning holding a sign that said: "It's great to be straight." In front of kids. In front of families. School officials said their hands were tied.
Our Gainesville Planned Parenthood closes June 26. I've been going there since I was 16 years old, when I was living alone, supporting myself, and had nobody else to ask about my sexual health.
