Why don't you do something?

By: Raven Robinson
The Rams Horn
Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Every day students walk through the halls throwing trash onto the floor, writing on lockers and bathroom stalls, and putting gum under desks. Then, the same people complain about how dirty our school is and how we need new equipment. If students stopped disrespecting our school, we wouldn’t need new items; our old items would work just fine.

Improving our school is very important not only to teachers and administrators but students as well. The reputation of our school affects how others view you. Personally, I am tired of people frowning at me when I tell them I attend Randallstown High School. We should begin to work on buying new equipment and improving not only our school's appearance but our academic achievement. We need to work on raising test scores and working to cleaning up our school’s name.

People automatically assume that students who attend schools such as Carver are smarter than students who attend Randallstown. Maybe you don’t care about that but remember that you have to compete with those students for college admission. There are many individuals here who are just as smart if not smarter than students attending the so called "better schools." Yet, they automatically get the credit for being smarter. This is all because Randallstown’s name is tainted and by improving our school, you improve your chances for college admission, jobs and how other people view us.

It seems like most students don’t have any school pride; they don’t care about Randallstown and how the school is viewed; their selfishness only allows them to care about how they themselves are viewed.

Think of it as Princeton vs. Towson; the name and reputation of the school has a lot to do with you. By improving our school, maybe we can become the Princeton or at least people will not frown when you tell them what school you’re from. It is about time everyone got together and worked on improving our school not just physically but by clearing its name and letting the students who attend this school get the credit they deserve.