Raphael Gelacio resides in North Texas where he teaches gifted and talented 6th, 7th & 8th grade social studies and also coaches mock trial.
While as an avid news reader he appreciates the growing post COVID-19 attention paid to American classrooms, he noticed something interesting; that most of the commentary was from people on the outside looking in. Gelacio wanted to offer something he felt like he did not see enough, a view of education from someone already in it, that saw its problems and issues first hand on a school day to school day basis, and also saw the effects first hand rather than through statistics or from some talking head with limited classroom experience.