WRAL Wednesday student blog: Feb. 21, 2024

A classroom at Holly Springs High School visits the WRAL.com homepage weekly then writes about current events and local or national stories that stand out to them. This story contains their blogs from Feb. 21, 2024.

Posted 1:08 p.m. Feb 23 — Updated 1:08 p.m. Feb 23

OCS students from Holly Springs High School

An occupational course of study (OCS) classroom at Holly Springs High School visits the WRAL.com homepage weekly then writes about current events and local or national stories that stand out to them. This story contains their news blogs from Feb. 21, 2024. Meet the students.

Sebastian

Read a story about BlueCross NC lowering the price of HIV/AIDS drugs. They lowered prices because they were going to charge more for HIV/AIDS medications. Investigators said to move the drugs to the lower tier. I thought about this story was it a good choice to lower prices.

Monty

Six Forks Road is going from four lanes to six lanes which will be divided by a median with 8-foot-wide walking and bike paths. It will cost the city an estimated $56.1 million. They will move forward with widening Six Forks Road between Rowan Street and Millbrook Road. The project was budgeted at $31.7 million in 2017, but costs for construction materials and labor have continued to rise.

Gabe

What I am writing about is Wake schools joining lawsuit against social media companies over student mental health. A school board voted to join in a unanimous vote Tuesday night. Wake will join a long list of school boards already suing Meta, google, byte-dance and Snap. Eleven other North Carolina school systems -- Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Clinton City, and those in Cumberland.

A woman got shot and died from her injuries. A man got charged with murder. This took place in northeast Raleigh Apt. Officers gathered around 11:45 a.m. Tuesday at Lexington on the Green Apartment Homes

Zach

I found a story about how social media affects teenagers' mental health. Teenagers these days spend time on their phones 24/7 365 not giving a care about school. TikTok sucks you into your phone and you stay in there to make videos, dance, and especially dark humor. They just stay on their phone when there is everything around them to do, not just sit there like a lump on a pickle.

The story that caught my eye is that two people were shot in a Jeep near Rolesville. I hope they are okay. I hope no one has that much road rage ever again. I hope they catch the bad guy and bring him to justice

Riley

The story that I picked was a Sign reading, "I hope you die" removed from the side of Wendell Road. The reason why I picked this one is because why would someone do that is so bad? Also, because that is so mean, why would someone do that? The last reason is because that is not ok to do. That is why I picked this one.

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