March/April 2014

It’s subjective

She never took the time to appear at my performances

Paint-dipped marigolds wave in the sun. Fingertips graze my heart. Hand-picked violets decay in th

I think I found a way to love you. But I learned to keep it all in. And learned to never trust a s

One day I came home from a long day of school and piled food onto my plate like I hadn’t just eaten three hours ago

She had been handpicked by whoever is the one who picks flowers

You were the one I wanted to make smile

It was no joke -- but there was laughter

My parents have always been really far from holding the typical gender roles depicted of women being housewives and inferior to men

But behind my beautiful smile was my shyness

Though the games may be equally announced to the student body over the intercom, girl athletes say they can hear a pin drop on the court when it comes to game day

It would make the economy stronger because more people would be able to get more education

It is because they took advantage of opportunities that life offered them and thought about how their jobs would help them in the future

Joshua Villanueva, 15, says that he likes the military knowledge he is being taught in school. “I

“My mother taught me this

It might not be as complex and large-scale as organizing a food drive or starting a non-profit sometimes it’s as simple as picking up a soda can on the street and placing it inside a trash can

It is an excellent way to gain a range of skills

It is a civic duty

In the long run, students who are suspended or expelled from schools will have a harder time getting a job or going to college, and won’t receive necessary in-school counseling

He or she should support measurements for school, teacher, and student quality that do not rely on high stakes testings that can create stressful classroom environments and pressure teachers to “teach to the test

She was a powerful woman

People do you a favor, waiting to get it back

Every Sunday the neighborhood kids went to the playground for games

But it wasn’t for me

I used to go to school early in the morning

Iraq is almost the center of the world, and also rich with oil

I am what others think about me

My amazing mom left me before I knew her to follow her destiny to come to the US and help us survive

I feel like I’m looking at the world from the inside out

“You have to be honest and tell them the truth so they won’t get more hurt,” says Yaribel Lora Valencia, a freshman at Brighton High School

Here are some inventions that teens would also like to see transform from dream to reality

O’Bryant School of Math & Science

No jeans

However, that philosophy is not true

Bread

Frustration shoots down the light of our humanity and makes us immune to feelings

Mostly everywhere in my community I used Portuguese, so my parents made sure that I spoke Creole at home so I wouldn’t forget the language

Most of the statuses, pictures, and videos are for adults

People are able to share every moment of their lives through these social media tools

On Twitter, it is easy to find people from all over the world and begin talking to them from behind a screen

Music is a universal source of pleasure and we use it to modulate our moods

They just wanna see you deep in crises, drive yourself you don’t need a license

Then, many of them end up getting hurt in the workplace

According to worldsoccer

I can still remember it like it happened yesterday

It stopped me from rushing down the stairs during class transition