What a some issues going on currently that people feel strongly aboutt? E.g. Animal testing, sex trafficking?

I think you've got some good ones there already.

What about waste? How much water/power/paper etc is wasted by a school or any big business.

As this is for a school project how about highlighting the way schools are used to impose state propaganda upon their pupils? A brilliant example of this is the way many schools have worked tirelessly at man-made global warming propaganda.

The point you might make is that it is disgraceful that schools should be used to indoctrinate young people especially when the issue in question has not been proved. Hence the propaganda tag. You might also tack onto it the representations of political opinion among schoolteachers. Just to see that you get balance in the classroom you understand.

Should be fun?

Child soldiers or terrorists. It's a wow subject to us here in the West but it is a reality in the world.

Iran using "tens of thousands" of children to clear minefields

The Age - March 23, 1984

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=198...

Tunisian children are dedicating their song to the Al Qaeda leader, Al Zawahiri, with lyrics of "If they call me a terrorist, I will consider it an honor." I am a 50 year old mother of three.. these children look to me to be 7-12 year old age range... for heaven's sake!

Tunisian Children Recite Al-Qaeda Song Extolling 9/11: "Our Terror Is Blessed"

http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/254/0/3597.ht... (video)

http://www.memri.org/clip_transcript/en/3597.htm (transcript of song)

Palestinian children:

72% of children from Gaza expressed hopes of becoming suicide martyrs. Sout Al-Nissa (voice of the woman) Al-Ayyam 24Jan2001

"I ask you: This [Palestinian] people, which has made all these sacrifices... The [Palestinian] mother is unparalleled throughout history. She grabs her son and says to him: Off you go, on a martyrdom operation. When the second son comes, she says: Off you go, too, and then the third son, and the fourth. A [Palestinian] girl, in the prime of life, thinking of getting married, dons an explosive belt and plunges into the Israelis. This people, from the children to the elderly..."

Leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) - General Command, Ahmad Jibril -- memri.org

Hamas indoctrination of Kids: Bombs more precious than children

Also included are statements by Hillary Clinton from her news conference with PMW in the US Senate, where she criticized Palestinian schoolbooks and television that "profoundly poison the minds of these children."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIBNRVgq59Y&featur...

"In June, the State Department determined that six governments were using child soldiers in their armed forces or allied militias: Burma, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen. Of the six, all but Burma and Sudan receive US military assistance."

US: Don’t Finance Child Soldiers

http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/10/04/us-don-t-financ...

I'll tell you a real issue for our country. Dole sucking scum bags. People who sit on their behinds all day claiming money for popping out more and more babies. And then people like me and the average person have to piggyback them through life by paying for their scratch cards and fags with our taxes. I heard that Abu Hamza was on £3,000 per month benefits. That's an issue my friend.

The biggest issue that seems to plague people, is dog shite, or bird shite. Of all the letters written to my local newsrag, the issue of animal faecal deposits is the one that comes up again and again.

Badger culling, there is no evidence that badgers don't catch TB from cows!