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No Worries! Many, if not all of you, have heard of the controversy that is net neutrality. In fact, it has been one of the most tweeted topic over the past couple weeks. I personally believe that everyone is making a big deal out of it. I mean, we're being stripped of an open Internet, so what? Obviously big companies want the best for their consumers, so why shouldn't we trust them? Just think. We don't even need the Internet in our society, just like how trains don't need train tracks to function and cars don't need roads to drive on. Why send emails when you can send letters? If we can survive without the Internet itself, why does net neutrality even matter? Why shouldn't ISPs have the control over how they should deliver service? It would just be like how the police department chooses who to defend and who to penalize, right? Or like how doctors and nurses choose which of their patients to take care of. Or like how firefighters pick and choose which...

Everyone at Troy High is very nice. Students and teachers are careful to not offend anyone. People lay a protective film over others' feelings. Take this as a a good thing, if you wish.  As Bruce Forhnen, professor of Law at Ohio Northern University puts it, niceness is merely a "shallow set of habits and attitudes more concerned with comfort than engagement, ease than excellence, contentment than striving to do one’s best." In other words, niceness hinders students' potential to do their best in school, and consequently sets them up for failure in the real world. After all, no lessons are taught or learned if everything is sugarcoated. Niceness is simply another word for tolerance, a way to avoid challenging anyone, regardless of whether that someone is being reasonable or not. If one gets too comfortable with others being "nice" to him or her, the slightest form of criticism will seem harsh. Harsh criticism that will be taken as an insult and lead to ...