Peer Helpers is a big part of our school. Seniors Libby Aguirre and Johanna Stewart are planning to attend a convention in Washington DC on Saturday, February 1st. At the convention they will bring back Knowledge to help the students in our school.
“Basically what we will bring back is different techniques for leadership or different ways to help educate the school about destructive behaviors,” Stewart said. The two seniors will be presenting in front of thousands of people. The students from LHS will be presenting, how there campaigns work in our school environment and how they build leadership skills.
“Legislatures, senators, and people who live on capital hill there,” Junior Riley Terzopoulos said.
The Peer Helpers Club is making our school a better environment for everyone to be welcomed into.
The group is “Preventing unhealthy habits,” Aguirre said.
They do campaigns through out the year to help student’s realize the importance of good habits.
This last fall, “ There was a day, where every 32 minutes someone died in a car crash from not wearing their seatbelt,” Terzopoulos said.
Students got pulled out of a classroom then would go back into class with their face painted white. The white paint on their face symbolized a death from the car cash. The students with white paint on their faces could not talk for the rest of the day. The whole meaning behind this campaign day was to buckle up and arrive alive.
In late April Peer Helpers will be putting on an anti-drug campaign. They will provide fact sheets around the school with this campaign. The club will help the students of LHS know how drugs can affect the users.
Aguirre and Stewart will bring back several different ideas to help LHS promote good behavior and leadership skills.
