Dear Editor,

We as a community should encourage kids to go outside more and stop using technology. The environment causes positive impacts on the body. Clearing your mind off tough situations, or as simple as just getting to be in solitude. Each day young children are bed rotting everyday causing them to stunt their growth.

Growing is the most important thing to children and they need to release their energy. You never see any young children outside anymore and it’s sad. Playing at the park or running with your friends creates new memories that technology will never create.

I understand that parents don’t have the time to watch their children be outside and feel it’s easier for them to just have an Ipad going. Ipads are shortening kids attention spans creating it harder for them to pay attention in school. Technology is like a drug, once you start you can’t stop.

We as parents and as a community need to reborn our society and start over. Let’s encourage our kids to get fresh air and see the true blue in the sky and not see the blue light on the screens. Kids are young as easily influenced by technology and may turn children into people you may not have created them to be.

– Ashley O’Sullivan (10)

Dear Editor,

Many events have been happening that are causing students to get consequences for problems they did not cause. A lot of students have been upset about how problems are being fixed throughout the school.

As a result of a group of students’ actions, bathrooms get closed frequently to try to prevent the actions from happening. Although this is a way to temporarily prevent illegal activities from happening, a lot of times these actions have been consistent. A lot of students are worried they might get accused of doing these activities while simply just trying to go to the bathroom.

Instead of trying to fix the problem temporarily, our school should come up with a more effective solution that can stop certain students from causing problems. By closing bathroom doors for the whole school, people feel like they are not being recognized for their good behavior and only the bad behavior of other classmates.

These situations that are caused by students that don’t feel the need to follow the rules and expectations of our school need to be held accountable for their actions instead of just getting searched and taking the bathrooms away. Our school can figure out a way to provide a healthy environment for our students but yet still expect structure and discipline to be acted on.

– Sydnie Penhollow (10)