"'We are talking about a throwaway population that adults think are too far gone,' Sohn says later. 'We’re talking about kids that people have given up on over and over and over again. They don’t feel like anyone is there for them. They may have parents who love them, but they’ve been falling back on themselves for so long that if you come in front of their faces talking, and not backing it up with action, you just become another one of the people who have disappointed them.'"

Read more: Phil Zabriskie, Washington Post Magazine