One of my assignments before I leave for Phoenix is to email Steve with three article ideas for institute publication. No pressure there, right? This is such a daunting task for me. I don't really know why because I usually have tons of great ideas. However, this time I feel pressure to come up with a REALLY GREAT idea--one that will show how savvy and intelligent I am. Well, I don't know if my ideas do that, so I decided to send them and ask Steve for his thoughts. Below is my email to him.
Dear Steve,
As I sit here wracking my anxiety-laden brain for ideas, I thought just send the ideas and get Steve’s insight. So that is what this email is about. While I may be Freedom’s resident journalism teacher, I am by no means a journalist. Therefore, I am having a difficult time trying to figure out what my “angle” would be for these topics. I just know that they are things that either bother or interest me (or maybe a bit of both).
Possible story topics
1. Dress Code (enforcing it/uniforms/knee-huggin’-pants/underwear peaking for sunlight/club attire seen during the day, etc)
- Are schools enforcing appropriate student and adult dress codes
- Alternatives
- This would push to link to college and business expectations
- Are employers relaxing their standards based on the prevailing styles
2. The Privatization of Public Education
- I am convinced that the turmoil in many states regarding education budgets and the attacks on teachers, teacher unions, performance appraisals, proficiency levels, etc. are all means to try to dismantle public education and put it in the private sector
- However, I have no idea where to start this, and it is such a large topic, I don’t know what my focus would be
3. My last idea is about the abhorrent way people express themselves in writing. I’m not talking about texting lingo, although that is relevant to my idea. I can’t stand when people send emails to colleagues with “i” or with no punctuation. Or when publications, like the one I picked up in my doctor’s office, have grammar issues galore. Or even worse, the people, who respond to articles in the newspaper, write on the newspaper’s blog and don’t spell words correctly and can’t use there/their/they’re properly. Again, I don’t know where this may or may not play a role in a possible story/article.
Dear Steve,
As I sit here wracking my anxiety-laden brain for ideas, I thought just send the ideas and get Steve’s insight. So that is what this email is about. While I may be Freedom’s resident journalism teacher, I am by no means a journalist. Therefore, I am having a difficult time trying to figure out what my “angle” would be for these topics. I just know that they are things that either bother or interest me (or maybe a bit of both).
Possible story topics
1. Dress Code (enforcing it/uniforms/knee-huggin’-pants/underwear peaking for sunlight/club attire seen during the day, etc)
- Are schools enforcing appropriate student and adult dress codes
- Alternatives
- This would push to link to college and business expectations
- Are employers relaxing their standards based on the prevailing styles
2. The Privatization of Public Education
- I am convinced that the turmoil in many states regarding education budgets and the attacks on teachers, teacher unions, performance appraisals, proficiency levels, etc. are all means to try to dismantle public education and put it in the private sector
- However, I have no idea where to start this, and it is such a large topic, I don’t know what my focus would be
3. My last idea is about the abhorrent way people express themselves in writing. I’m not talking about texting lingo, although that is relevant to my idea. I can’t stand when people send emails to colleagues with “i” or with no punctuation. Or when publications, like the one I picked up in my doctor’s office, have grammar issues galore. Or even worse, the people, who respond to articles in the newspaper, write on the newspaper’s blog and don’t spell words correctly and can’t use there/their/they’re properly. Again, I don’t know where this may or may not play a role in a possible story/article.
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