This ended up working!! Thank you all for the support when I felt like I'd completely screwed the pooch. <3
EDIT: IDK how to close threads or if there's some kind of netiquette around this kind of thread resolved thing
SO...
I recently updated my fw from 6.2 to 7.0.1 using choidejour but I think I did a boo boo. Instead of selecting the exFAT option, I picked the normal one. I'm not sure if this is the core issue but it's the only thing I can think of. Here's a picture because my English is not so good so...
Turns out my ancestor was a bit upset about the whole language fragmentation issue, like Soda and Pop... Ask for a pop here in Florida people will look at you funny. Ask for a pop up north and people know what you want lol
They gave him a warning. This was at nearly the end of the school year. The teacher continued working there for a few weeks, but at the next school year he wasn't there anymore. So I don't know if he left or got fired ¯\_(ツ)_/¯