We just finished the unit on kids in the media and I thought it appropriate to bring up one last thing. All around us in the media, new broadcasting networks and advocacy are all supported and vocalized on adults and community disruption. Now I was thinking, where are the kids? They seem to be so much in the background as having no thought or place to say anything in today's society. To me, not having any younger siblings or cousins I don't even think about what a kid would feel or have to say in today's world...until now. I believe kids voices need to be heard out, they are the futures leaders and are actually very intuitive thinkers and I don't know about all of you but any younger kid I have talked to are brutally honest. I know they seem forward and sometimes it comes off a little crazy but society is filled with lies and half truths..think what it would be like if people just spoke the truth?

I did a little bit of research on kid's speaking out and i found this website

http://www.kidspeakonline.org/, It talks about how kids can fight against censorship and know their rights and how they can stand up to the community and address what they believe. Here are a few stories from that website.

Student editors of The Tattler, the Ithaca High School newspaper in Ithaca, New York, are battling for their First Amendment rights. School administrators removed a Valentine's Day cartoon depicting a sex education class. Rob Ochshorn and Andrew Alexander, two of the paper's editors, are working with the Student Press Law Center and are planning to take the issue to court.

Blake Douglass, a high school student in Concord, New Hampshire, took his school to court when the yearbook committee rejected a photo of him holding a shotgun. Blake, an trap- and skeet-shooting enthusiast, said, “I just want to put my hobby in. I don’t see it as a threat." U.S. district judge Steven McAuliffe ruled that the photo could only appear in the “community sports” section of the yearbook, not as Blake’s senior portrait. Though the McAuliffe ruled against Blake, he also praised him, saying, “I'm awful proud of you for bringing the case. You stood up for your First Amendment rights.”

Kids have been so conditioned to just listen to what others say and believe what they do and think. Kids are thoughtful, deep and have rights! They should be able to stand up for what they believe and not what they are told to believe.