Editorials and Personal Columns

Editorial ideas: 

1. standardized testing and whether it actually accurately tests what we have learned, the stress it puts on students, espec. those who have different ways of learning 
2. dress code; whether it really is sexist, whether it has an actual practical function, double standards of the dress code enforcers
3. treatment of mentally ill students (all mentally ill students) and ways for teachers to make schoolwork more do-able for them—communicate with them respectfully about what sort of stressors make schoolwork more difficult for them, triggers for panic attacks or other kinds of episodes, etc. NOT just students with anxiety & depression since they are less "scary" than bipolar students, or other disorders that cause a student to act "weird" or "crazy"

I read a lot of different social justice blogs (or media outlets that have similar opinions) because it's something that I am very invested in, and I try and stay educated on as many such topics as I can. I also check the tumblr blog thewritingcafe (and others like it) a lot because it always has a lot of different resources for fiction writers like myself and it updates regularly.