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Contact: Stacy Stein, 963-0139, radiovltn@yahoo.com
While educators have been demanding reforms in our public schools for decades, youth are just simply wondering “ what is high school preparing me for anyways?” While the high school setting is the center for most teens' social experimentation, academic endeavors, and extracurricular accomplishments, youth are often still impressed by and overwhelmed with a world of large issues. A world that will soon be theirs to deal with, whether high school prepared them or not. The Andy Zanca Youth Empowerment Program (AZYEP) and KDNK have created a youth panel to discuss students' concerns about their high school education and the social and global issues that they face beyond their classrooms.
The public is invited to a meeting of the Youth Panel at the Colorado Rocky Mountain School's Barn on Wednesday, February 24 at 6:00 pm. Representatives from five area high schools, including four students from CRMS, will discuss the effectiveness of high school in preparing youth for a challenging future, how youth can currently make a difference in the world, and which social issues pose the greatest obstacles in the lives of high school students. The youth panel will explore what works, what does not and where do we go from here to create schools and communities that lift up and empower youth to embrace the challenges both present and future. The event is free. Donations support youth radio broadcast education.
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