Lily Hawkins: Here’s the Mail

Daisy Prom
Opinions Editor

How is it that we, the young people, have made a name for ourselves as the inactives? Yes, we’ve succumbed to simply complaining about how the cold weather hurts our arthritis and how the government doesn’t care about our health care instead of getting off of our rockers and doing something about it. In a world where we give up the opportunities to act on what we think is right, nothing is prone to progress— at least not in our hands.
I often hear passionately voiced opinions about the happenings at our school. We all have our complaints. We have opinions on the safety of ingesting school lunch and our anger at the cancellation of Food Fair and the amount of busy work we receive, but we only hear about these things. In the history of progress, being proactive always begins with dissatisfaction, so there really is nothing wrong about complaining. The only problem is that hardly anyone at this school braves the next step, and that is taking the initiative to change what is wrong.
Even if the chances of change are miniscule, doing something is better than doing nothing. Take protests for rights or against budget cuts for example: it’s plain to see that these people are upset about something. Though you may argue that they’re not actually, physically, changing anything, they are taking a stand for their cause and making others aware of it. It’s the notion that if you feel passionately about a cause, you go ahead and do something about it.
And here’s where our newspaper comes in. What people don’t seem to understand is that our newspaper represents the student voice. We consider ourselves a forum—a two-way street, if you will. So if you are enraged or impassioned by something at school or in the newspaper, let your voice be heard, rather than simply staying silent. Write us a letter to the editor if you have a different opinion or if you’re unhappy with something at our school. The impact of your opinion is potentially great, and our readers would love to hear what you have to say.