Government
Grade 7

Using Rapid Re-Housing to Help Homeless People

According to USA Today, there are about 600 to 700 thousand homeless people living in the United States, the same number of people who live in all of D.C. Whether you’ve been in a homeless situation, known a homeless person, or just seen someone who’s homeless, you know how much this could impact a person. […]

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Mental Health
Grade 7

Expanding Access to Mental Health Care

According to Turnbridge, a provider of mental health and diagnosis treatment programs, “In the United States, over half (54 percent) of adults do not receive treatment for their mental illness.” Untreated mental illness can lead to unemployment, homelessness, suicide, unnecessary disability, and poor quality of life. Unfortunately, there is currently a shortage of mental health […]

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Education
Grade 7

An Argument for Cell Phones in School

If you’re a student, have you ever wondered why you can’t have your phone during the school day? Most schools for the 2022-2023 school year let students have their phones on them but don’t allow them to use their phones during class. Many things can happen, like a shooting or fire, and children wouldn’t be […]

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Mental Health
Grade 7

Improving Student Mental Health

What if someone told you that your child was suffering from a mental health disorder? How would it feel knowing that children and teens are suffering every day simply because they did not have proper emotional support? A mental health crisis is impacting millions of young people today, such as depression, anxiety, and behavioral disorders. […]

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Bullying
Grade 7

Stop Anti-Queer Bullying

Meet me! A twelve-year-old “They/Them?” or something like that, in the 7th grade. You know nothing about me, but would you want me to be bullied? No, you wouldn’t. So why should queer youth get bullied just because they’re different from you? I don’t wish for me and other queer youth to walk into school […]

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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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