Sisters High School takes on litter

The parking lot at Sisters High School (SHS) was awash in litter last week, and some students were not happy about it.

It appears that some students park their cars and dump their trash from breakfast and lunch out in the parking lot - soda cups and plastic bottles, fast food wrappers, and packaging and bags. The trash blows around and hangs up in the landscaping and the lot looks trashy.

Some students raised the issue with Mark Stewart, dean of students at SHS, and he organized a school cleanup effort on Monday.

Stewart told The Nugget that the problem of litter crops up occasionally.

"I snag ' em and I make 'em clean it up," he said. "And then we don't have a problem for a while."

However, he said, the school isn't staffed to the point where somebody else can consistently be out in the parking lot supervising and keeping an eye out for litter-bugs.

Besides, it's a matter of school culture and pride, and that is best inculcated peer-to-peer.

"To be honest with you, that's by far the most effective and way better than top down," he said.

That's why he was glad students brought up the issue, and he hopes a school-wide cleanup will put pride in their campus back to the forefront of students' minds.

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