After lunch garbage tarnishes Akins appearance

As students walk to class through the courtyard after lunch they are surrounded by a landscape dotted with half-eaten sandwiches, partially eaten pizza slices and spilled milk cartons.

The spacious courtyard that Akins enjoys is spoiled daily by the food waste that students leave behind everywhere. It seems that some students expect that the custodians are responsible for cleaning after their mess, assistant principal
Bill Creel said.

Day by day the cycle continues where garbage is left on tables, benches and even placed on top of trash cans instead of placing them inside. Constantly allowing this to happen creates a bad image for our school.

“It’s disrespectful to students and the school, it’s like our home. We want to represent our school the best way possible and trash doesn’t do that,” Academy Coordinator Jeanie McGough said.

Students need to realize that what they are doing is ill-mannered and shows little admiration for the school.

“Properly disposing of breakfast and lunch trash would be a tremendous help to our custodians and towards maintaining a clean learning environment,” Creel said.