OC HIGH: STUDENT NEWS AND VIEWS : OC High asks: What disturbs you most about the world?

“People don’t seem to care about each other very much anymore. People don’t talk to strangers on the streets and people are paranoid with each other. There doesn’t seem to be a general community feeling of happiness.”

Sara Parks, 17, senior, Laguna Hills

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“Having to deal with all the gangs.”

Courtney Vondrak, 15, junior, Aliso Niguel

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“Crime and vandalism. People go around writing stuff on walls that makes no sense to the average person. Also, the fact that people can go around killing other people for no reason whatsoever and then only get put in jail for a few years.”

Mike Obermann, 17, junior, Trabuco Hills

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“Discrimination against homosexuals, different races and people with disabilities. If we all lived in the world and were blind, it wouldn’t matter. We shouldn’t have to worry about differences.”

Robin Benway, 17, senior, Laguna Hills

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“How ignorant people are about diseases and religion. You know--the important things.”

Stephanie Parks, 17, senior, Trabuco Hills

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“I’d say poverty. We dump tea in the ocean because of regulations. We have enough food but it is not distributed properly.”

Nina Singh, 16, senior, Laguna Hills

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“I guess how people are cutting down the rain forests and wasting the forests. They are wasting too many trees. It’s sad.”

Diedra Guigli, 17, senior, Trabuco Hills

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“Kids have no say. We have no say in the law because of age discrimination.”

Robert Driessen, 17, senior, Dana Hills

“Our lacking a sense of morals. Society doesn’t care about its youth and there is dissent against what we traditionally valued, like peace.”

Denise Pong, 17, senior, El Toro

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“The general lack of compassion. People are so alienated from one another. They don’t realize that they have a lot in common.”

Padmaja Naidu, 16, senior, Aliso Niguel

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“All the killings in Rwanda. No countries are helping out and a lot of people are dying in the meantime.”

Cheri Stromquist, 17, senior, Capistrano Valley

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“Greed. Basically, politics disturb me. Only the rich get to be politicians. They don’t do jack.”

Amy Guerriero, 17, senior, Trabuco Hills

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“Violence against women. Women are always the ones who are attacked.”

Jennifer Kessy, 17, senior, Dana Hills

“Probably that so many people are ignorant. Like the problem in Rwanda--people don’t realize it is going on and they don’t have compassion.”

Katie Ingram, 17, senior, Capistrano Valley Christian

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“Probably violence and gangs. It bugs me that teen-age gangs go out and kill people and do drugs.”

Scott Schimmel, 14, freshman, Santa Margarita

* Responses gathered by Joslin Gemsch, Capistrano Valley High School.