WATERLOO â Northeast Indianaâs state senators heard concerns about school vouchers and career education at a public forum Saturday morning in the DeKalb High School auditorium.
Sens. Sue Glick, R-LaGrange, and Dennis Kruse, R-Auburn, differed in their responses to opponents of proposed expansion of private-school vouchers.
Both senators responded sympathetically to fears that funding might be cut to four programs at Impact Institute at Kendallville and similar career and technical education centers.
Approximately 50 people attended the two-hour forum sponsored by the DeKalb Chamber Partnership. Staff members for U.S. Rep. Jim Banks and U.S. Sen. Mike Braun also spoke.
What would you say if someone told you birds are government drones?
âA lot of things that people believe on social media are so unreal they canât help but think itâs true. So it either has to be so out of this world that it has to be believable, or it has to be a minor lie that can be stretched out,â said Angola High School student Tori Brown.
Twenty-year-old University of Arkansas student Peter McIndoe started âbirds arenât realâ by standing with a sign during a Jan. 17, 2017 Womenâs March in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. He yelled: âBirds are a myth, theyâre illusions, theyâre a lie. Wake up, America, wake up!â
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Abigail Adamson of Angola, a sophomore at Earlham College, Richmond, watched the recently released documentary The Social Dilemma on the last day of her introduction to social media class this fall. Our teacher would ask for our opinions, said Abigail, 20. She said discussion revolved around how social media changed students lifestyles, how it played into the presidential election and how it incorporated affect theory. Affect theory attempts to categorize humans emotions to predict how they will respond when triggered. We discussed how much misinformation gets spread so quickly, Abigail said.
Virtual universe
Todayâs teenagers represent the first generation to grow up with social media.
On the positive said, social media allows them to meet new people, learn new things, join social groups and follow their role models. But on the neagative side, teachers and youth leaders voice concern that some of the material youth encounter online is misleading and potentially detrimental.
Social media sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Skype were launched in the 2000s and followed by other platforms that became popular with teens. Snapchat, which allows users to send instant messages and photos that disappear after they are viewed, is the most popular teen site, according to Statista data. TikTok and Instagram are also heavily used by teenagers, according to statistics.