This year the editorial staff has tackled a lot of difficult issues; there haven’t been many “light” editorials.
Earlier this year, we wrote an editorial about the senior patio being closed due to a select group of seniors that preformed what looked like a “freshman Friday” to most people, even after the administration explicitly told them not to. The first print issue of the year, we decided to take the “side” of the administration and wrote an editorial that wasn’t taken well by some of our peers.
In the most recent March print cycle, we wrote about underage drinking and how the responsibility should be shared between the teenagers, parents, school, and Outback alike. This time, there wasn’t a “good guy”, “bad guy” approach to this serious and important topic. We can’t write a preachy editorial in the school newspaper condemning underage drinking, while there are other glaring issues that must be addressed not only to the students but to the town members as well.
Though editorials are anonymous and reflect the collective opinion of the whole editorial staff, when writing it, we sometimes feel like we are giving a gun with a single bullet to the whole readership, and we know they are going to choose us to shoot that final bullet at. The important thing is that opinions in the editorial are based off of the facts.
I hope people find our editorials fair, or at least, we hope to get people thinking in a new way or to get them seeing the other side of the story. Sometimes there is a lost voice in the issues that involve teenagers, and that is the voice of teenagers themselves.
If you haven’t had the time to read the editorial, read it now under the “Opinions” tab, and feel free to leave your comments. The beauty of journalism is that if you feel your voice isn’t being heard, you can inform others of it through the power of comments.
