Youth design, write, and produce For the Record Newspaper, a youth oriented newspaper that teaches youth creative writing, graphic design, and photography while building the comprehension skills necessary to succeed in their education.
Youth become drawn to the newspaper because they create the content and design of the newspaper. Literacy and language arts skills are acquired as students learn about composition, form, and editing during the process of producing an issue of the paper. In addition each youth writer is paired up with an adult mentor who provides guidance throughout the writing process. It encourages reading among area youth, as it is a media outlet created by them and for them.
This newsletter was created to give the youth of Los Angeles, and maybe the world, a different version of reality. As we grow older it is harder for us to delineate between what others want and what we want for ourselves. “For the Record” will give you, “The People of America,” a way of thinking about your life and the alternative beliefs of others. Though it only may be a small group of young people writing for this newsletter we want to showcase that there are youth out there whose intelligence is not at the level of monkeys but people who creatively express their opinions and antagonize the media’s image of what they call the “echo generation,” in other words, a generation who follows the same mistakes their parents committed. For what its worth, here is our take on the world.
- Youth Writer/Editor, Marcos R. , Printed July, 2006
