What would you be interested enough to read about in school newspaper?

[tinyshoe980]

i need some really good topic to write about something like senior pranks in high school, teachers, facebook, like music in general: how music affects the kids,etc. i mean something that you would be interested enough to read about?

[Kolin]

teachers who are unfair or abuse power

[magicbird]

Is Facebook (or anything else, for that matter) healthy or harmful thing to students your age in the long run? Why or why not?

Write things in a way that poses questions to the reader in a way that makes them want to voice their opinions. Take that case of the minor (13 yo? Not sure) who emailed photos of herself nude to classmates (other minors) and was charged and found guilty of distributing child pornography, which is now on her police record. Was that fair? Think of the expense to the family for legal defense. Was it fair to destroy this girl's family when she was just a minor sending photos to kids her own age? How do you feel about this case, you kids, as minors yourselves? As minors, do you think you would have been 'harmed'--victimized--emotionally traumatized, or put on a path to crime yourself, if this girl had happened to send YOU PERSONALLY a photo of herself? Was it fair to her family? What if she were your sister, and your parents were financially destroyed because of legal bills? What if the money your parents had set aside for YOU for college had been eaten up by these legal bills, and you now had to take out a loan for college? Do you think it was right for the prosecutors to even prosecute this case? [Most adults don't, by the way].

That's just one example. Get people thinking, 'What if it were me in that situation?'

Another example--and always start with a personal story, fictional or real: 'Jose was 14 years old when his parents brought him along with him from Mexico to be an illegal alien in the US with them. What if it were you? Would you be afraid of being caught by the police or border patrol? Would you want to go back to Mexico or stay in the US? What about your rights? Would you be able to attend school?

Take polls--"If you could visit any country in the world, what country would you visit and why?"

Find out if you're in earthquake territory (and unless you're in southern TX, you probably are. There was a big one in the midwest about 30 years ago but it was in an unpopulated area). If an earthquake hit your town--if you were in your home and it started to shake--would you know what to do? What would you do first?

PERSONAL STORY: I went to high school in an American school in Germany. My home room teacher, an elderly woman as my teacher, was a 14 year old in Nazi Germany. Her parents, unknown to her until years later, were members of the Resistance. Frau G. recalled to us American students the time that she came back from her Hitler Youth meeting and announced proudly what she'd learned that night--that if she, or any other Hitler Youth, found out that their parents were members of the Resistance, then the "right" thing to do,as a good German citizen, would be to turn her parents in to the Nazi police. She said, "I didn't understand why my mother started crying and got up and ran into the kitchen."
So write that story and ask students, "What do you think you would have done if you were in Frau G.'s place as a teenager in Germany, and believed in Hitler but found out that your parents were part of the Resistance?" Would you, as a good German citizen, turn them in as by law you were obligated to?"

Etc.