All of us have been watching the disaster that is occurring in the Gulf with the oil spill. I am not sure how anyone else feels, but I am literally sick to my stomach about this event and worried sick about what the long term effects are going to be on the environment and the people of these regions.
Since the first week I have asked myself, What can I do? What could we as a school do to have some positive effect for the environment and the people involved. I was paralyzed. I not only did not know – but I was getting to a point that it was hard for me to watch one more minute of the reports.
Today though I came upon a group that all of us can help and I would like to propose that we find a way to do so. Here is the website for you to look at.
http://www.matteroftrust.org/
Which one of our students will step up and make a plan to get our school, city and county involved with some solutions to the problem. Taking action is the right thing to do. Sitting around and complaining about what others are not doing is not the way students at Balanced Life Skills want to react to challenges.