The game centers on a protagonist who spends 30 days living with his younger sister, who has stopped attending school (a phenomenon known as
When my 14-year-old sister, Lily (not her real name), stopped going to school in September 2021, our family didn’t just face an attendance problem. We faced a collapse. This is the story of the 30 days that followed—the screaming matches, the silences, the social workers, and the slow, painful discovery that my sister wasn't being defiant. She was drowning. 30 days with my schoolrefusing sister final 2021
If you’ve never heard the term “school refusal,” you’re not alone. Most people confuse it with truancy — the assumption that a student is simply skipping school out of laziness or rebellion. But there’s a critical difference. The game centers on a protagonist who spends