HPHS Students Share Their Thoughts

Choose a topic, any topic, and tell us what you think.

That was the task given to students in Highland Park High School’s MAPS modern media course. The students rose to the occasion, writing about everything from concussions in youth football and how poor nutrition has contributed to disease, to how Disney has killed the Star Wars franchise.

In our December, January, and February issues, Park Cities People will publish three of the essays selected by Geoffrey Orsak, executive director of the Moody Innovation Institute.

We hope that these essays cause readers to reflect on both the content of their own views and how they form them.

“Just because I have an opinion doesn’t mean it’s right,” junior Carter Blurton told us. “Other people have things th

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