In this viral video,  high student Jeff Bliss  admonishes his teacher for reducing students to only “doing frickin’ packets, yo.” Bliss is rebelling against the far-too-common situation where students are basically warehoused in the classroom. Their Capacity lies dormant. And as a result, so too does the teacher’s Capacity. 

The TEA team has shown this short video many times in their own classrooms, using it as a prompt for opening up discussion and exploration about students’ relationship to their own education. 

One lesson this video offers for TEA and faculty that we work with--especially in the face of the Climate Crisis--is that time ill-used drains away capacity--and thus our opportunity to create solutions.