School Respect
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This year Neirad reporter Nicole Granath will be working with student journalists from across Fairfield County to report together on the life of Connecticut high schools. In this first installment, Granath worked in tandem with Daisy Villalobos, a senior staff writer for The Paw Print of Norwalk High School. They compared their classmates' attitude and treatment of their respective high school buildings.
Wasted
As I walk to class I notice numerous amounts of trash strewn on the floor, ironically, all around the trash can. Walking through the stairwells I not only have to be aware of potential accidents caused by misplaced trash, but I also have to dodge possible falling Slushies or beverages. Our school is a waste warzone.
Not only do trash and beverages fall from above, one must be constantly aware of another, rather grotesque, addition to our school warzone: spit. It rains down upon us, and it is to such an extent that we need to shift ourselves to the outer edge of the stair case to avoid being hit. Wads of saliva coat the floor in the staircases, and it is not unusual to hear the screech of someone who has stepped in it.
The amount of disrespect students have for our school. It really is not difficult to put trash in a trash can, or save spit for the outside.
Perhaps installing more trash cans throughout the hall ways, or an automatic detention for littering would prove to be progressive ideas to cleaning up our school.
Is it really necessary to make another’s life miserable by throwing things from up above?
Is it worth the laughs?
The blatant disrespect for our school is shameful. Granted our school might not be top-of-the-line, but it is the only one we have, and you cannot improve it if you are too busy trashing it.
Senior Daisy Villalobos is a staff writer for The Paw Print at Norwalk High School.
School Respect
It may not be typical at most schools, but Darien students respect their building.
Spitballs are kept to a minimum in the stairwells, and students are responsible when it comes to being messy eaters while walking around the school. One might occasionally spot an empty bag of chips lying next to the circular black garbage cans peppering the hallways, but it is otherwise rare to see litter in the school.
Outside of the pictures people find it funny to draw on the inside of bathroom stalls, there is also very little vandalism at Darien High School.
One reason for the respect that DHS students display for their school is its novelty. June 19 marks the end of four school years completed within the building’s walls. The lack of vandalism and trash littering the school makes it clear that students do not take this new facility for granted.
The question to be posed is: for how long will this attitude last? When will the school begin to show the wear and tear that results of more than 1,300 students roaming its halls 180 days of every year? The building is new and pristine now, reminding students that it is something to be valued, but how will it be treated in ten or twenty years?
Regardless, the level of respect students show Darien High School now is admirable, and means that the students and the community have a high school of which they can be proud.
