Aaliyah Smith

The media tells people “that it is okay to bully brunettes with glasses and good grades,” writes Aaliyah Smith of Youth Narrating Our World. She knows she has a choice of what to watch on TV, but that’s not the whole picture.

Nearly a third of high school dropout happen before 10th grade. Even though she admits she’d rather be on her couch than in a classroom, Aaliyah Smith, a writer with Youth Narrating Our World, will not be one of those teens.