Students at Laguna are often challenged by their teachers, their courses, their coaches; for the most part students succeed in rising to those challenges.
With the academic rigor, creativity and moral code Laguna asks of its students, we frequently fail to fulfill one request — picking up our trash after lunch.
Specifically, with trash in the freshman and sophomore quad, a trend seems to have developed where eating lunch and leaving the leftovers, wrappers and trash strewn about is the norm.
Not only is this genuinely revolting, but it also gives off an air that we do not respect our school, and leaves a sticky mess for those who do pick up the trash, which, undoubtedly after every lunch period, is Tyler Hodges.
Members of the student council created a video from the “Laguna Blanca Police Department,” “LBPD,” stressing the importance of picking up your trash after lunch.
The video featured footage from a GoPro camera hidden in a tree above the quad.
The footage did indeed show a student eating his lunch and leaving his trash in the middle of the table, as well as a student doing the right thing by recycling his trash.
The camera then proceeded to fall out of the tree where it had been placed.
Keep in mind we are part of an amazing school and an amazing community. We are talented. We are unique. We are creative.
Each and every one of us should be proud to be a Laguna Blanca Owl. We should be proud to wake up every morning and come to this campus.
We have a beautiful campus and leaving trash strewn about does not do it justice. It is embarrassing to our character.
So, in short, don’t litter our campus with trash — we are better than that.