Lincoln County Issue: Small School Consolidation

Lincoln County 

Korie Klein

Anna Michael

Samantha Cluckey    

    February 3,2015 meeting #6

    

    While the consolidation of small schools in Washington state may provide a larger learning environment for certain students, it would also limit the learning capabilities of those students that have special needs or learning disorders. A child that has a disorder even as mild as dyslexia may need individual help with their school work. In a larger school that child is unlikely to receive the help that they need, they are also more likely to be bullied for their disorder. Children like this are more likely to prosper in a smaller school environment than in a larger one. Put yourself in such a child's place. Do you want to be bullied, beaten-down, and unable to fully understand the school subjects being "taught" to you? Or do you want to prosper in your endeavors?

Lincoln County Issue

Lincoln County

Mekenna Phillips

Meeting #6

 Marijuana was legalized in Washington for recreational use in October of 2012. The reasons for the legalization are widespread, but the primary one is money. The state profited $14 million in taxes on marijuana buisiness in the year 2014. Over 700,000 people were jailed for marijuana possession in the United States in 2014, and this is a huge burden on tax payers. Legalizing marijuana in Washington has prevented 14,000 people from going to jail, and this has lifted the tax burden on the state.

 However, the legalization will affect our society negatively. Marijuana inhibits your senses and legalizing it creates a more widespread use of it. Large marijuana companies are starting to drive out smaller growers and many fear that they will become much like the big tobacco companies with a monopoly on marijuana. The smoke in marijuana contains %50 to %70 more cancer causing agents than cigaratte smoke. Because of that, second hand smoke is very dangerous for the people around it.

Legalization may benefit us for now, but in the long run it will cause harm in more ways than  one.

Lincoln County Issue

Lincoln County

Gabe Hemenway, Whitney Wollweber, Marshall Simons

February 3, 2015

Meeting number: 6

We have learned about consolidating schools and its impact on our county, Lincoln County.  We have researched, interviewed, and created a poster about it's impact.  Consolidating to larger schools could be very harmful to the towns with  small schools, like our school. Without our school there would not be community and we wouldn't have the one on one with our teachers. 

Lincoln County

Lincoln county,

Rebekah Hagreen,

02/03/2015

I have the KYG class for the last couple years but never ended up finishing it because complications came up and I wasn't going to be able to attend the conference, this being the first year I can attend the conference, I went into the class whole-devoted  and expecting the experience to be awesome...and it has been just that! I have learned so many things. How to write and create things without being biased. How to get to the point and present a problem affecting our county, and not just present a problem, but to also give both sides, the good and the bad. So far this year I have learned so many things and only to continue to learn. KYG is a great and fun learning experience. 

Lincoln County

Lincoln

Jacob Rossey, David Payne, Jeremy Christian

We are all very excited to attend to attend KYG this year, as we have been for the past two years. It has always been a great experience for us and we always leave the conference having learned a lot about the topic each year. We will be dealing with the issue of marijuana this year, both the positive and negative effects. We have constructed a tri-fold poster board about this, and are excited to present it at the conference. We are very thankful for all the time that has gone into the making of this conference.

Meeting #1 - Lincoln County

Lincoln County

Denise Wollweber

Meeting #1

1/6/15

What is Media?

With an outstanding turnout of 16 students, we had a lively discussion concerning "Media", it's definition and how its changed over the years.  The resulting definition was, "a method used to communicate to a mass population".  The group had lots of input on how social media has changed the way we communicate. 

We also discussed News, Freedoms and limitations of the press and had a great time getting more acquainted.  Looking for forward to class # 2 on Friday.

Meeting #2 - Lincoln County

Lincoln County

Whitney Wollweber

Meeting #2

1/14/15

After spending some more time practicing interviewing each other, we started getting serious about our topics for the poster boards.  Although we are only required to complete one, we decided to divide our large group into two sections and will cover two topics.  The sections then divided themselves into partners to tackle the tasks of research, interviews, photos, and headlines and poster design.  This allowed each person to work in an area of interest and use their personal strengths to make this assignment a success. 

After learning how to detect bias in media, how to do an interview, how to research a topic, and how photos and other creative techniques are used to attract viewers, we feel prepared to begin our work on the poster boards. 

Can't wait to show off our hard work in Olympia.

Whitney

KYG

Lincoln County

Denise Wollweber

Meeting #1

1/6/15

What is Media?

With an outstanding turnout of 16 students, we had a lively discussion concerning "Media", it's definition and how its changed over the years.  The resulting definition was, "a method used to communicate to a mass population".  The group had lots of input on how social media has changed the way we communicate. 

We also discussed News, Freedoms and limitations of the press and had a great time getting more aquainted.  Looking for forward to class # 2 on Friday.