Environment
Grade 6

Pollution in Bangladesh

Imagine you are breathing in thick, polluted air, and your heart starts to hurt. Can you imagine breathing air that is 16 times worse than the World Health Organization’s recommended levels? That’s what people in Bangladesh have to breathe every day. Air pollution in Bangladesh poses a significant problem for the 171.2 million people living […]

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Education
Grade 6

Preventing Trauma From School Lockdown Drills

A 7-year-old girl had a lockdown drill because of a potential bomb threat. When she got home, everything seemed fine until she was changing out of her school uniform, and her mom noticed that she had written “Love Mom and Dad” on her arm. When asked, she said it was in case the “bad guy” […]

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Education
Grade 6

Changing How We Think About Homework

How would you feel if homework didn’t exist? Homework should be minimized because, first, homework causes problems in a student’s school-life balance, and second, it is ineffective and a waste of time for the student and the teacher grading it. According to The Human Restoration Project, “A study in Contemporary Educational Psychology of 28,051 high […]

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Education
Grade 6

The Secret Behind the Sky-High Price of College

The cost of college is challenging because of the expensive buildings they create in order to attract the public eye. What do you think is the average cost of college The average cost of attendance for a student living on campus at an in-state public four-year institution is $27,146 per year or $108,584 over 4 […]

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Food and Nutrition
Grade 6

How Can We Address World Hunger?

Jeff Bridges, a famous actor and activist, remarks, “35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don’t know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we’d be at war.” People die every year from hunger, fatigue, and malnutrition. […]

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Animal Cruelty
Grade 6

Save the Wolves

Last year, I adopted a wolf named Loci. He lived in a faraway land called the Wolf Sanctuary of Pennsylvania. Loci passed away on April 26, 2024, after many years of living a happy life at the Sanctuary. I met Loci during a visit to the Sanctuary and meeting him instilled in me a desire […]

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Domestic and Sexual Violence
Grade 6

Community Solutions for Child Abuse

Have you noticed that the number of children being abused has risen in the United States? Child abuse and neglect are major challenges because they negatively impact children and their childhood. Therefore, communities need to support families by gathering to make a plan to help children, helping guardians through struggles, and talking to guardians who […]

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Bullying
Grade 6

Cyberbullying

Have you ever been messaged on the internet with cruel comments or been harassed online for the way you act or look? This is called cyberbullying. One of the earliest cases of cyberbullying was the Megan Mier case. Megan took her own life following being cyberbullied by an adult neighbor posing as a fictitious boy […]

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Government
Grade 6

Petition for DC Statehood

DC Residents: How much do you pay in Federal income tax? Probably a lot. The average American, including the average DC resident, pays $16,615 each year in Federal income tax, but DC residents don’t have a say in The Federal government. The average salary in the U.S. is $60,000 per year, which means DC residents […]

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Government
Grade 6

How DC Can Limit Gentrification

Gentrification is a huge problem for lower-income communities. It displaces so many lower-income families in the affected areas. Racial redlining, or dividing cities into economically segregated areas has been a problem since the end of slavery against people of color. This idea of redlining has shaped America into what it is today. This concept has […]

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Education
Grade 6

Skyrocketing College Debt

According to the United States Census, there are 336 million people in the United States. Best Colleges says that around 43 million of them quickly fall victim to mounting college debt. The Senate and House of Representatives should make college free for some and financial aid more accessible and reliable for all by passing bills […]

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