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November 20, 2019

Current Event #6:Protecting The Right To Write Jenna Daggett 11/20/19 8th Grade Journalist at Pittsburg Highschool in Pittsburg, Kanas, just recently got a new Principal that they were suspicious about, Amy Robertson for the Highschool Newspaper. All the details about her on her paper didn’t add up, and including where she earned all of her degrees. All of the reporters decided that they wanted to meet up with someone, so they met up with the school superintendent Destry Brown to talk about all the concerns that they had. He was very supportive, so on a friday night in March 2017, the paper published a story calling attention to the discrepancies. Little bit later, Robertson had resigned “in the best interest of the district.” manys of people praised the students because most adults don’t believe what teens and children say because they are simply not adults, and Brown says that he believes s

November 20, 2019

Current Event #5:Facial Recognition Jenna Daggett 8th Grade 11/14/19 Back in 2017 a women in Cornelius, Oregon stole a pair of $130 boots and stashed them in her purse and walked out. Images of her face captured by security cameras were uploaded by the Washington County Sheriff's Office. There new crime capturing tool is facial recognition, which helped them figure out who stole the fair of boots. The next day, the women confessed the crime and she was then charged with theft. The crime was solved within just a day. Facial recognition was made to help solve manys of different crimes, like shoplifting assaults and even mass shootings. I think that facial recognition is a good idea because it’s much easier to solve crimes, and catch criminals. But, at the same time this scares me. I don’t like the idea of the Government watching my every move and scanning my face wherever I go. I only think this is a good idea for solving crimes, and cat

November 13, 2019

Current Event #4:Payday For College Athletes? Jenna Daggett 8th Grade 11/13/19 Every Fall, big groups of fans will pack into stadiums across the country to watch college football teams and many more people watch them play on tv. All of the money people pay to get into the stadium goes to the school and athletic conferences. Such as the Big Ten and Pac-12. The top coaches earn millions in salaries and that’s a big deal. The sad part is, there’s only one group that’s involved that does not make hardly any money, the players. The National Collegiate Athletic Association doesn’t allow college athletes to get paid by their schools. They cannot make my money off the use of their name, image or likeness, this means they can’t sign endorsement deals with sneaker companies. And they also can’t get paid to appear on the covers of video games, or profit from sales of their jerseys, or sell their au

November 07, 2019

Current Event #3:On The Road To Extinction Jenna Daggett 8th Grade 10/31/19 Extinction is becoming more and more common around the world, 35 years ago Brad Lister walked through the Puerto Rican rain forest and saw dozens of butterflies, but then a few years ago he went back and wondered what happened to all the butterflies. His traps used to get covered insects but now there’s nothing but a few of them. Lister, and his Colleague Andres Garcia both discovered this. Lister says in the article I'm reading “We were incredulous. It was clear that is has been catastrophic collapse of the insect population.” research shows that 98 percent of the areas ground insects have vanished since way back in the 1970s. Many scientists have similar findings in many different places. They think that the insects might go down the path of extinction in only a few decades. Everyone thinks that huma

October 22, 2019

My Mother's An Addict Current Event #2 Jenna Daggett Grade 8th 10/22/19 Layla Kegg is a 17 year old girl whose mother is an Opioid addict. Layla really wants her mom to get better, but her trust was broken a long time ago. After years and years of watching her mother go down that bad road, made her lose trust and hope. Her mom kept on going in and out of rehab, Layla found a needle in her mom’s purse and said “I found a needle in ur purse the other day.” Layla says with her arms crossed. Layla thought that it was almost like her mom wanting her to start using drugs too, and everyone thing she said and done to help her mom get better didn’t work. Layla says in the article “it’s almost like you want me to be using. Everything I do is never going to be good enough, so what’s the point?” five days later after Layla said that, her mother Nikki Horr was gone again. More than 20 years after the introduction

Current Event #1:"Will Ginger Get To Stay?"

September 05, 2019

Current Event #1:"Will Ginger Get To Stay?" Ginger, a 17 year old girl from the Honduras was only 15 when she got kidnapped by the drug cartel...she was in danger, so she became a risk taker and decided to run off to the united states illegally. When she crossed the border, she was taken to a detention center, she ended up talking to her mom and staying for a few weeks. When she was done the detention center, she went all the way from Hidalgo, Texas to Detroit, Michigan to stay with her mom. She applied for asylum, and went to a Highschool in Michigan. She is one of the few teens that doesn’t speak much english. So, she found some friends that can speak both Spanish and English so they guided her and taught her how to speak english and helped her fit in. Do you think Ginger should stay? Yes, I think the U.S Government should let Ginger stay because she is in great danger in the Honduras. The Drug Cartel kidnapped her befo