Many schools encourage students to become involved in service-learning projects. These are projects designed to help the community while students gain experience solving real-world problems. Projects may involve activities such as organizing litter pick-up, tutoring younger children, or conducting a health fair. Students at Crawford County high school could help their community by picking up trash. Litter is a major problem in Crawford, and everywhere else in the world. People litter every day, because they are too lazy to go to the trash can. If the students at Crawford pick up the trash on the roadsides and anywhere else there is trash, it will help keep the county looking good. Even if each student only picked up one piece of trash, at the
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At the end of week 1 the students would have picked up 2,500 pieces of trash. Those 2,500 pieces of trash would make a huge difference in the community and the environment around us. Picking up trash would also teach the students that littering is a very bad thing. Some of the students may learn and not litter again, and they may want to do it more than once a day. Picking up the litter would benefit everyone. The trash would be gone, which would make for safer environment, it would make the county look better, wildlife wouldn’t be affected as bad, and it would make the students and parents learn that littering is a bad thing. There is tons of trash everywhere around us, if the students clean that, it teaches them valuable life lessons. School should be more about helping students learn in the real-world, and not be so focused on testing. School is based on tests now, when it should be based on teaching the future of the country to do well in life and want to help out as much as they can. Overall, schools all across the world should make the students pick up trash, even if it is just one piece a day, because over time that one piece of trash a day will add up and you will see a change in your community and environment. School is mostly based on testing, that needs to change. Make the students help their
At the end of week 1 the students would have picked up 2,500 pieces of trash. Those 2,500 pieces of trash would make a huge difference in the community and the environment around us. Picking up trash would also teach the students that littering is a very bad thing. Some of the students may learn and not litter again, and they may want to do it more than once a day. Picking up the litter would benefit everyone. The trash would be gone, which would make for safer environment, it would make the county look better, wildlife wouldn’t be affected as bad, and it would make the students and parents learn that littering is a bad thing. There is tons of trash everywhere around us, if the students clean that, it teaches them valuable life lessons. School should be more about helping students learn in the real-world, and not be so focused on testing. School is based on tests now, when it should be based on teaching the future of the country to do well in life and want to help out as much as they can. Overall, schools all across the world should make the students pick up trash, even if it is just one piece a day, because over time that one piece of trash a day will add up and you will see a change in your community and environment. School is mostly based on testing, that needs to change. Make the students help their