miseducation

This is TAKS week here in the Texas schools. As a 10th grader, I take four tests this year. Some years we take two and other years three or four, but this is the big year that determines how well our school does compared to other schools. For us as students, every year matters because […]

An Iraqi Teen Blog

Laura sent me a link to this blog, and I think it’s amazing.

Days of My Life
Talk about daily life of a teenage girl in Iraq, and days of suffering and success. My nick name will be Sunshine.

The author is my age, but lives in Mosul in Iraq. She talks about school and friends […]

Senseless Violence, teen style

Nope, this is not a post about Iraq, or even about King Georgie.  It’s about 8 kids my age who don’t have the sense God gave a turnip!  According to the L.A. Times,
Eight teenagers have been arrested on charges alleging they beat another teen in an “animalistic attack” so they could make a videotape to […]

more on sex education

Some teenagers are stupid!  And some are just uninformed.  They NEED to start giving us the real facts or kids will be killing themselves trying to stay healthy.  I wrote about teen pregnancy and sex education previously here and here and here.

Nobody Could Have Predicted…
from Eschaton by Atrios
And on and on…

ORLANDO, Fla. — A recent […]

NY high school kids talk about Obama, race and politics

The kids I know have a lot of opinions about race, but I’d say that in my HS, only about 30% of the kids care at all about politics, and most of them don’t know a lot about the issues. Most opinions are no more complicated that “Dude, that ain’t right.” or “Well he’s a […]