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How about the school newspaper? He could research the increasing support in the courts for censorship of school papers.
How about sports? Many schools have adopted mandatory drug testing programs for school sports, or even for all extracurricular activities. They claim it is for the safety of the participants, but in my view this is a palpably absurd claim.
How about police searches and seizures? Should the police be able to break into your house and search it, or to pull you over in your car because they think you have drugs, regardless of what the evidence is?
Or at the student level, what about the case involving the girl who was strip-searched by her principal because of a rumor that she had one or two ibuprophen tablets hidden in her underwear? Was that a reasonable balancing between freedom and law and order?
What about the laws in France and some other countries that prohibit Muslims from wearing veils or other religious symbols? In these times of threatened terrorism, should those laws be permitted, and should we adopt them in the United States? What about claims by Muslim women that they should be able to be covered with a veil in their driver's license photo?
What about music? Should the government regulate the language of rap and other music that is sold to minors because it's vulgar, or supports drug use, or degrades women? Or violent video games?
What about drug prohibition? Why should we throw people in jail for marijuana when we sell alcohol on every street corner, tax it, and advertise it on TV, radio, and every newspaper and magazine?
You get the idea. Even without telling him what to think, there is no end of topics that he could think and write about.
This is a great theme -- the erosion and very limited rights school children have as opposed to adults; especially post Columbine. Even the recent school strip search of an excellent student; a trouble free, shy 13 yo female 8th grade honor student for ibuprofen, based simply on the allegation of an known trouble maker and against the 8th grader's denials, barely squeaked through the US 9th court of appeals on a 6-5 vote. The district took the case all the way to the US supreme court before finally losing. And only the strip search portion. The school search of backpack was ruled constitutional.
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