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I write for my highschool newspaper and I mainly write (satirical) articles for the opinions page...and I'm usually down in the principals office after the newspaper is published. This month I am totally out of ideas, and I need to have my story idea in a couple of days. Does anybody have any good sory ideas, school related preferably...like things that go on in school that some people might not know about. Or maybe even something that has to do with everyone in the united states...I'll take any ideas really.

It doesn't matter if it's school "innapropriate" I usually get in trouble for the articles I write anyways. The school is not very open minded...and it doesn't help the the class is totally run by students. I live in New Mexico if that helps any.

You could always write about a minority group in your school (gays, Hispanics, handicaps, etc.) and the challenges they face from other students. You could interview a student of that minority group to get a true perspective on how that minority is treated in the school. Then you could write about how things could be changed to help this and other minorities. This would be very eye-opening if your school is really that close-minded.

You could also write about cliques. They are everywhere in high school and they are common writing subjects, but maybe take a different perspective? For instance, you could write about how cliques will affect teens after high school and in the workplace.

Or write about technology in your school. How common is texting? How many people have internet access at home and how long do they spend on the internet? You could take a poll and then interpret the results. Like, how does this affect grades if students neglect homework to socialize on Myspace? Or how will this impair/improve their social skills? How much communication and technology is too much?

These are just some ideas, but they sound good. They would definitely catch the interest of your readers, and they are about subjects that your readers are familiar with. I hope I helped.

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