Dear Ms. Brown,
The new policy enforced on the school is reasonable. The students were given a request and failed to follow the rules, which is why the only way to improve the school’s appearance is through the cancellation of the extracurricular activities. Students need to realize that as students one of the top expectations is to treat both the faculty and the campus with respect. A campus must be kept clean and proper as if it were the student’s second home. In fact, in this school the phrase "students of character" is emphasized alot, and as such we should abide by the rules until the situation is improved.
Students should treat their campus with more respect and not pinpoint their faults upon others. In fact, many students try to blame the littering problem on the freshmen, since they are the newcomers to the school. This claim on the freshmen is false, as every grade level contributes to littering in this school, not just the freshmen. As a student, I have witnessed these events first hand. I’ve seen it all; from the random lunch "fights" to a student’s laziness on throwing away their tray. All of these events make it clear that a student’s responsibility is to treat their campus with respect.
It is disgusting to see trash lying around when it should be in its place, the trashcan. Now that there are more students in our school, we should have enough hands that clean after themselves. Instead, everything is a wreck. There are lunch trays on the tables, wrappers on the floor, and food that makes its mark on the floor. Why? Students do not clean after themselves. In fact, as a student I decided to pick after some students – on rare occasions – to lessen my disgust on the campus. If students put their hands to good use, the campus would be a cleaner environment.
A littered environment leads to pest infestations. It has been proven that once students are allowed to eat in classrooms rats, flies, ants and roaches have become more common. Why? These students fail to clean up after themselves. It is one thing to leave a mess, but it is up to the individual to clean it up. In fact, a janitor cleaning up after the student is not enough. If one compares the student to janitor ratio, the janitor is clearly outnumbered. Not to mention, the hard spills to clean up after. These spills students leave behind leave a stick substance that the pests feed upon. It is because of these students that the pest plague has fallen upon us. How do we fix this problem? Enforce one’s authority over the students to make them do the right thing.
Overall, a trashed campus is unappealing, not sanitary, and a terrible learning environment. The only solution for this problem is by punishing the students for the mess they have made. Once the students learn how to respect their campus, they deserve the right to extracurricular activities. Until then, one must wait till the students realize that the campus must be clean to improve their learning environment.
Sincerely,
Jenny Ceballos
Littering is usually an unconscious act by a child who hasn't been introduced to the concept. First teach, help build awareness and good habits, then punish!
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