We want to know what matters to young people today. We've all got an issue, a belief, an idea that drives us forward, something that really matters. Raise Your Voice! is Maine Public's online platform for ideas and perspectives from students across the state. We reach a broad audience interested in education, supporting young people, and especially, in hearing what today's youth have to say.
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It is easy to dismiss kids’ infatuation with video games as addiction or obsession when in fact, it comes from a completely different reason. I am on the…
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We have all experienced the feeling when our heart drops to our stomach and our throat tightens; a look of disappointment stares back at us in the…
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In 8th grade, I was struggling with friends. I felt alone and disconnected from my peers, and school didn’t interest me. Halfway through the school year,…
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I'm going to say a word, and I want you to think of the first thing that comes to mind. The word? Opioids. What did you think of?I asked this same…
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You’ve probably had one of those moments, driving down some packed city street or a rural backroad relying on a directions app, when you’ve exclaimed,…
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The day was June 12th, 2018. It was 7:56 am, and the sun was shining brightly in the sky. Everything felt so amazing, so perfect. I felt so light and so…
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When I was about twelve, my mom and I had stopped at Target and got a Brita water dispenser. It wasn’t particularly large; it should have held about 18…
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The past is the consequence of what we have done. The present and the future will be the result of what we are doing in the now; all choices lead us to…
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What is conversion therapy? The Human Rights Campaign defines it as “a range of dangerous claims and discredited practices that falsely claim to change a…
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Everyone has a different connection to music.Some, like my grandmother, are indifferent -- she knows it exists, but it’s just not for her. And then…