Food and Nutrition
Grade 7

Start the Fight Against Price Gouging

$2.30…$3.65…$4.23…$5.83. Have you ever been to the store and seen that the price of your favorite was higher than it was last month? For the last five years, companies such as Tysons Food and Pepsi C.O. have been raising their prices more than is considered fair. This is called price gouging, a prominent issue in […]

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Government
Grade 7

Addressing Opioid Overdoses

Have you ever lost something valuable to you? My friend’s aunt died due to overdosing on opioids. This has put their family in a tight situation since they had to pay a lot of money for all of the expenses of the funeral. A lot of people are losing lives due to overdosing on drugs, […]

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Mental Health
Grade 7

The Way Quarantine Affected Kids

Did you know that kids have shown more restlessness, irritability, anxiety, and clinginess since Covid-19 started? In 2020, when schools shut down, kids lost social skills. To solve this, parents can let kids know they can open up, or that therapy is an option if they don’t want to open up to their parents. Kids […]

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Healthcare
Grade 7

Through the Roof: the High Price of Prescription Drugs

Inflation and other issues are causing prescription drug prices to rise. As a result, forty-two percent of Americans have difficulty affording their healthcare and prescriptions. Many people under 65 with and without health insurance cut back on their medication to save money. A way to improve this is to give access to lower-price alternatives and […]

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Food and Nutrition
Grade 7

It’s Just A Diet

Are you aware that today the media community puts a large amount of pressure on young women and girls to meet a certain standard of beauty, which can inevitably lead to poor body image and eating disorders? Eating disorders, most commonly found in women, are not talked about enough in the world today as a […]

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Bullying
Grade 7

LGBTQ+ Bullying

There has been an increase recently in the number of people identifying as queer, and some people are not taking it too well. A lot of these people are bullies from school. This needs to be stopped because it is leading people into depression and even sometimes suicide. Here are some examples, On February 7th […]

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Animal Cruelty
Grade 7

Factory Farming

The widespread process of factory farming is terrible for animals and our planet. Factory farming is a process that billions of animals go through before they are eventually killed and appear in the meat aisle of a grocery store. According to the Humane Society, “There are no federal animal welfare laws regulating the treatment of […]

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Video Games
Grade 7

Video Games

Video games. Some may love them; some may hate them. Kids all around the world love these things, but some of them can’t play the games they want. 63% play casual games, 39% play action, 39% play shooter, and 37% play racing games. But even though video games are bad in some ways, everyone should […]

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Healthcare
Grade 7

Prescription Drugs: Not as Safe as You Think

Do you have a teenager? Do you monitor the number of pills in your medicine bottle? Do you notice you’re losing track of the medicine in your bottle? Suppose you said yes to all of these questions. In that case, it would be time for you to have a conversation with your teenager about the […]

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Environment
Grade 7

Water Shortages in the West

Have you ever wondered how much global warming can do? The lakes and rivers in the west are drying up quickly. If there is ever a water shortage in my area, I would want some form of government or organization that could install preventative measures. I wouldn’t want to have a solution in place too […]

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Education
Grade 7

Book Banning in American Schools

Did you know that from July 2021 to March 2022, 5049 schools from 32 states restricted access to selected books for almost 4 million students? The majority of these have topics such as the LGBTQ+ community, racism, activism, and religion. An example of this is the most banned book from 2021-2022, Gender Queer, a memoir […]

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