but are instead faced with financial cuts and healthcare decisions that throw their lives into deep turmoil that is out of their control and bring them together in a dramatic finale. Anyways, these characters all just want to live their lives: the mundanities of daily paperwork, high school crushes, the school play, etc. And while those three are our main perspectives, we also get snippets of the story told from some of the other students at RVSD, including Charlie’s roommate Kayla, Austin’s roommate Eliot and ex-girlfriend Gabrielle, February’s ex (and a teacher at RVSD, Wanda), and others. Austin is the golden boy of RVSD, a legacy of a generations-long deaf family. She has spent years struggling to fit in as a hearing person, dealing with a number of complex side-effects of her cochlear implant. Charlie is a high school student who just transferred to RVSD from the local high school after a custody battle between her parents. February, a child of deaf parents, is the principal of RVSD and lives with her wife, Mel, in a “just off campus” school-sponsored home. True Biz revolves around the students and staff of the River Valley School for the Deaf. “…all those years of energy poured into achieving the aesthetic of being educated rather than actually having learned anything.”
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