Hi, my name is Maggie, and I attend Lee Academy. I am enrolled in Mr. Moore's English Comp II class for concurrent credit. Lately we have been working on a recycling project within Lee. The money we recieve from recycling aluminum cans will fund student organizations, which Lee lacks. Two weeks ago my class and I hosted an assembly to explain exactly what we are doing and why.
Our SUPA presentation, Student Organizations: How We Will Create Them, got a tremendous amount of attention. Teachers began thinking about the future of Lee Academy, and the gears in students' minds began turning. This presentation was a great success, and could not have gone much better in my opinion. The whole student body is beginning to participate in the recycling project, which is a huge step for our cause.
We also received a lot of feedback. Teachers and students alike pledged their respect and even volunteered to help. Students expressed how much Lee needs student organizations. Also, parents told us they would also collect cans within their households. As a result of our campaign for a cleaner and more exciting school system, students are thinking more about the future of Lee Academy.
In the next few years, I see Lee as a more environmentally conscious and self-sufficient school. I believe we are inspiring the youth of Marianna, and our future looks promising!
This is a great topic to explore. I think schools should be required to recycle. School is all about instilling good habits and ideas into its students. What's better than showing kids that recycling is helpful and is neccessary for this world to stay clean. Using the money from recycling aluminum cans for the students seems like a good reward for doing a good deed.
ReplyDeleteIs your blog focused on recycling only aluminum cans for the money for your school, or is does it include recycling paper goods and plastics even though they're nonprofitable? How will you find research on this topic, are there other schools with similar ideas?
Maggie,
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emily and I'm a freshman in college at Purdue North Central. I'm in a English 102 class and we are doing blogs for an argumentative paper. I think what your doing at your school is very cool. Most schools try to encourage recycling but it doesn't always work. Especially if not all of the students want to participate. Since you said everyone is wanted to get involved, maybe you can take it a step further. Start something in your community outside of school. An example would be going around picking up cans and paper out on the streets and recycling them. This way your not only helping your school become eco friendly, your town will be as well. Get the whole community involved too. You'd be suprised how many people would be willing to come out to help recycle things. You should even try to come up with a cool logo to support what you guys are doing. You could use the SUPA organization as the name. Just some helpful thoughts:) good luck!
This is a good topic to write on and share with readers. Its also nice that you have people who are willing to contribute to the effort. Now, would you have cans or just designated areas for people and students to turn in the recycling? Also, do you have any idea of how many aluminum cans you need to collect to make a dollar figure worth while, like a price per pound? Is there a set goal or just wherever it goes it goes? Very good topic to share and I hope all the reycling goes well!
ReplyDeleteI think that this is a good topic to explore. Something as simple as recycling could save lots of resources if we would just spend that little time sorting out things like cans and paper. In high school we collected cans and put the money toward our class graduation. This didn't make a lot of money but I don't think it was intended for getting a lot of money. It was more for the environment and keeping cans out of our garbage dumps. I think that you can make your paper very interesting and eye opening for many people if you try.
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