All topics we are made to stride away from our normal school curriculum.

We are told that we are adults and should act like it but then we are limited to the topics we are allowed to speak out on and are made to muzzle our voices.

To be a reporter we must venture into controversial topics and learn to handle backlash instead of administrators being concerned of the response of parents and higher powers.

How are we supposed to learn to be reporters and go into our careers when we aren’t even allowed to handle our own and are revoked our chances to even try.

I plan on being an editor for a magazine or newspaper for my future career but it frustrates me not being able to write about topics such as abortion because it’ll bring a bad image to what we’re learning. But topics such as these I feel make us learn to deal with all the bad criticism and learn to stand our ground when the world is screaming back at us that we’re wrong. I believe that helps all of us be more open minded to opposing ideas.

Rape is real. Abortions happen- even in our high school scene- and the fact that we can’t even put out our opinion irks me. We are supposedly being protected but really they are only protecting the image of the school because they’re too scared to face what is real. We should be allowed to write what we feel like as long as we can stand by our words and handle all the feedback shot back.

It’s like we are children and we’re told to cover our ears when the “adults” talk so we are shielded from what is reality. Facing reality is what we should be prepared to face. We can’t be made to stick with the clean version of life.

I for one am tired of having to censor everything for the sake of parents and people who aren’t willing to know the truth and stick to their own version of how they want topics to be told. I have a voice. We all do.  As future reporters we should be able to voice the truth and tell it how it is to those who will listen and even to those who are ready to fight back. You won’t please everybody, If you are, you aren’t doing your job as a reporter.

We need explicit. We need uncensored. We need reality.