When the folks who cover education here at the TNT pitched an idea for high schoolers to blog on our site, I thought, "Sure, let's try it." When they pitched the name "High School Confidential," I thought, "We'll never get a teenager to post something confidential on a mainstream newspaper blog." I was wrong.

In the past couple weeks, volunteer high school bloggers have taken on weighty issues like teen sex and pregnancy and suicide. So the blog has accomplished, at least for now, its goal of providing a visit to the virtual hallways of our local high schools, a glimpse into the local lives that high schoolers are leading.

Quotes from the blog:

My best friend just tried to kill herself. I don’t know what possessed her to do it. There are true demons in this world that drive us insane, trying to make us harm ourselves. I don’t know what I’d do without her. She is, after all, my best friend.

Sex has become a trend. Forget those tight flare bottom jeans that every girl should have or the latest shoe a boy should rock, sporting a belly with the promise of a baby soon to come is the newest fad.

The first time I met another person off the Internet, I was 13-years-old claiming to be 18. Being only 13, I was innocent in the romantic sense, and my stomach was in knots from the thought of his expectations.

Link: http://hsconfidential.blogspot.com/