What Students Are Saying About the Growing Fight Over What Young People Can Read
In honor of Banned Books Week, we asked teenagers their opinions about the book challenges spreading across the country. Here is what they said.
What Students Are Saying About the State of the World
To start the new year, we asked teenagers how optimistic they were going into 2023. Here is what they said.
What Teenagers Are Saying About How They Grew and Changed This School Year
Students reflect on the successes, challenges and life-changing lessons of the 2025-26 academic year.
What Students Are Saying About Family Conflict in Quarantine, Starting Over and Health Care...
For this week’s roundup of student comments on our writing prompts, we’re highlighting teenagers’ thoughts on isolating with their families, beginning again after a setback, and the role of health care workers during the pandemic. Welcome to all the new students who chimed in this week from: Brooks School, North Andover, Mass.; Clarkston, Ga.; Dearborn,…
What Students Are Saying About 2020, Growing Up in Another Era, and Distraction
Technology advancements will radically change our lives.With all the work in A.I. that various tech companies such as Apple, Samsung, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have been doing, it’s only a matter of time before this Artificial Intelligence moves out of its shell and into bigger, more human-like robots that can assist workers, and eventually replace…
What Teenagers Are Saying About Holding Parents Responsible for School Shootings
Students react to the conviction of Colin Gray, the father of a teenage gunman who killed four people at Apalachee High School in 2024.
What Students Are Saying About the Holiday Season
Teenagers share their winter traditions, write short holiday stories and poems, and offer ways we can help others this season.
What Students Are Saying About Making School Lunch Healthier
I feel that throughout my school many food ends up getting wasted because of the lack of attention brought to people with regards to healthy eating. Because so many fruits and vegetables get thrown out on the daily at my school, many people are getting fueled on the unhealthy salt and sugar-filled items that are…
What Students Are Saying About Teachers’ Politics, Memorable Scents and Text Messages
School Is Not a Place for Politics. School is a place to teach and learn new education skills or topics, it’s not a place for politics. Especially in middle school or elementary school kids are very vulnerable and believe everything they see or hear especially if it’s said by someone they’re supposed to trust. Teachers…
What Teenagers Are Saying About ‘6-7’ and the Era of ‘Brain Rot’
Students explain what today’s slang reveals about their generation.
