A Time for Celebrations, Not Sadness
The month of May is an exciting time for our high school students, especially our seniors. Clubs and sports will be having their end of year banquets. Band, orchestra, and choir students will be performing in their spring concerts, and for some of them, the last concert of their high school career. Just recently, an event was held to celebrate the academic accomplishments of 98 seniors who have earned a cumulative grade point average of 3.75 or higher through the first semester of their senior year. We will celebrate with those seniors who have been awarded scholarships for their academic and athletic accomplishments, as well as their service. On every senior’ s mind, however, are two of the biggest events of the year: Prom and Graduation. Graduation will be a time spent with family and friends to celebrate 13 long years of academic struggles and successes. All-nighters and arguments over homework will seem worth the hassle once parents and students proudly watch our seniors march across the football field adorned in purple and gold. In an equally extravagant spectacle, many students spend weeks planning and preparing for Prom. This high-class social event offers our juniors and seniors a night of fine dining and dancing while dressed to the nines. For many of them, it becomes a night to remember and cherish forever.
Many of these happy events are accompanied by family gettogethers, graduation parties, and celebratory meals. However, society has seen the shift of some of these“ after-parties” to more dangerous and reckless fun, especially in the case of prom. Year after year, stories appear on the news of individuals being killed in a vehicle accident due to a drunk driver. Unfortunately, this type of story seems to be more prevalent on prom nights. To remind our students not to become part of this statistic, the SADD organization at Plum Senior High School sponsored a Mock Car Crash. Students from the SADD organization alongside members of local EMS, police, and fire companies staged a prom night accident using automobiles that had been destroyed by reckless and drunk driving. Plum Senior High School stages this event so that students can see the damage that can be done when driving under the influence of alcohol and other substances. It is the hope of the staff at Plum Senior High School that our students will continue to make good choices in the following weeks so that these will truly be times for celebration, not sadness.
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