Folger McKinsey Elementary to Participate in the Friday’s Green Apple Day of Service
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Folger McKinsey is gearing up to participate in Friday’s First Annual National Green Apple Day of Service, a worldwide event in which students, parents and school staff will come together in support of healthy, sustainable schools by taking action in their communities. The event is sponsored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) a non-profit organization which promotes buildings that are environmentally responsible and healthy places to live and work. Every student at Folger is going to get outside and lend a hand to improve the school grounds. Folger's participation was requested because of their status as a National Green Ribbon School. There will be stenciling at storm drain openings, litter pick-up, weeding, planting, and cleaning. (Rain date is Monday October 1.)
Folger will start the day with an aluminum recycling drop-off post at the school entrance. Each student is encouraged to bring in a bag of 12 aluminum cans, labelled with the student's name and teacher. There will be a contest and the number of cans will be tracked to see which students and classes participate. This recycling activity will be done every Friday. The aluminum is brought to the county recycling center and the funds generated go straight to Folger.
Christy Wilson
10:05 am on Friday, September 28, 2012
I applaud the school for teaching the students to be responsible for their own property. The litter pick up and weeding make sense. I hope they plan to do this more than once a year. I would be thrilled to see Folger McKinsey actually raking up all of their leaves this Fall as a community project instead of their current policy which is to leave the leaves to blow all winter long into the residents yards who live near the school. The leaves also blow into the storm drains. Taking care of one's own property is a first step in REAL community service.
The aluminum can recycling seems like make work. More work for teachers and for students's families. My kids would have had to go door to door or hit the highways to find aluminum cans(sodas aren't healthy) as we don't often use and the county has had recycling all of their young lives anyway. Just saying....I do not have elementary aged children nor do I teach.