Beebe School Middle Schoolers Work Against Graffiti With Letters And Paint

The middle school English Language Learning classes at Beebe School were asked, "How can we help the Malden Community have respect for public property and public spaces?"  

Some students responded by brightening up a graffiti wall with the word "RESPECT," but one of the 8th graders in the class, Yiwen Dong, brought the subject into her assignment to write a persuasive letter.

Her letter, in full, is here:

Over the summer the graffiti attacked the Beebe school and it has made the outside play ground called the mezzanine plaza unusable. It is a disaster out there and our teacher has decided to have her students help her repaint the mezzanine plaza and stop people from making more graffiti.  In English language learner (ELL) class we brainstorm ideas to prevent more damage from graffiti and come up with many ideas like: writing to the news paper, make posters, write essay to publish and give to students to teach them not to make graffiti. Now we have gone in to action and we have started to paint, we write to the news paper, posters are made, and our publication about the power of persuasion is going to be handed out to all Beebe students soon. We have found a problem and we have solved it.

Beebe School's work against graffiti isn't over.  They may be packing it in at the moment to avoid the winter weather, but they're planning to pick up this project again in the spring.