The Journal For Youth Voice

Sophie Tipper

  • The Curse of the Gifted

    The Curse of the Gifted

    The ‘Gifted and Talented Program’, while intended to support advanced students, often fosters a sense of superiority and discourages collaboration. Consequently, these students struggle with studying and self-advocacy, leading to burnout and underperformance in high school. Changes are needed.

  • Less Votes More Seats: How the UK General Election Shed a Light on Election Systems Everywhere.

    Less Votes More Seats: How the UK General Election Shed a Light on Election Systems Everywhere.

    The UK’s recent general election saw a landslide victory for the Labour Party, shifting the political landscape. The first-past-the-post system led to discrepancies between the percentage of votes and seats won, highlighting the varied electoral processes across democracies globally, including the US, Germany, India, South Africa, Poland, and Brazil.

  • The Constitutional Climate Crisis

    The Constitutional Climate Crisis

    The Preamble of the Declaration of Independence states, “…[people] are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”  If a planet is deemed unsafe for human beings, that danger can be perceived as a threat to those unalienable rights.  The first group to make…