Student Gets 'Fun' Trash Pick-Up Program Approved at Carpenter

Abby Ward saw that there was a need for to be cleaned up.

Like all the schools, Carpenter got a cutback in janitorial services, and cleaning up around school has fallen to the teachers, and so why not the students?

She went before the teachers, principal and parents of the Governance Council to make her presentation.

“I think we need to purchase three litter pickers,” she said. “They would be fun. And, we can have vests.”

Ward figured out that if each classroom was responsible for a week of monitoring—starting in January—then each class will have a day of cleaning up through the end of the school year. The program would be for second through fifth grades.

“I was very impressed with the way Abby thought this out and when she presented it to me, I thought she should bring it before the Governance Council,” Principal Joe Martinez said.

The council agreed, and the principal said he would pay for the equipment out his discretionary funds. One parent offered to help out with the vests, and they even considered having a recyclable vest.  The Council gave the clean-up project a whole-hearted thumbs up.

“It would start with the new year, so we can have a clean start,” Ward said.