Just Fund It TX, a grassroots, student-led campaign has turned to love letters to get their point across. Best of all, the new collective’s message is simple: Texas public schools could really use more funding.

“Whenever people talk about funding and legislation, it’s always so complicated and jumbled together that no one really wants to participate in it,” junior Gwyneth Yeager said, “So our goal isn’t to figure out how to solve the problem; that is the legislature’s job. Our goal is just to make them aware that we need more funding. We’re trying to make it as simple as possible so that people can actually join our cause and help us.”

The collective traces its origins to 2018’s heated district budget debate. Many of its founding members were drawn to the debate because they were worried that their extracurriculars would suffer as a result of funding cuts. Delani Jah, a sophomore orchestra member, and Emily Freeman, a junior color guard member, were two of the students who spoke to the Board of Trustees about how a decrease in funding would negatively affect the school. However, after campaigning against rumored funding cuts to McCallum programs