MRH Middle Students Share Insight

continues to look for ways to build student leadership and voice. The latest effort is this joint project between Patch and the eighth-grade communication arts class of Ms. Whitney Shaw. For the next few weeks, a group of students will be providing student insight and thoughts through their writing about some of the overarching ideas and concepts that thread throughout the learning at the middle school.

Students are responding to the idea that: as stewards of our world and resources, we impact the future.

"As stewards of our world and resources, we impact the future in multiple ways. When I hear people talk about us children being stewards of our world, I think about the ways that I am able to impact the world starting off in miniature and substantial ways. A way that I feel as though I am affecting the world is that I write blogs that people will be able to see, and that may inspire them to tell a friend that will take the advice that I am communicating into consideration.

We humans use our resources to our advantage. However, using these resources to our advantage may not be very astute, because we may end up using up all/majority of our  non-renewable resources. Using our resources responsibly and efficiently may lead to a healthier and more prosperous as well as productive future. If we were to use the resources to our advantage than while when we first start using them we may like it, in the long run we will run out of the non-renewable resources, and life will be laborious to people wanting resources that have been extinct. When we tell people about how we should conserve our natural resources because they may not always be there then we will be impacting people in the world which could spread quickly."

- Brian Beasley, MRH eighth-grade student

"As stewards of our world and our resources,we impact the future in many ways. One of those ways is cleaning up the messes that we have made. I don't mean a mess in your kitchen, but a mess in our community. We need to pick up our trash that we have left sitting in the streets. We need to take responsibility for our actions, make our community better than we found it, and make our community a better place for the generations to come. We don't want our children, grandchildren, or even great grand children to live in the community we live in today. So let’s all take action and help out the environment so we can have an easier life."

- Nick Gantz, MRH eighth-grade student

"This statement means to me that as responsible people of our world and resources, we impact the future. If this was applied to everyone in the past, right now this world would be in nearly perfect environmental shape. If we are irresponsible we will run out of non-renewable resources when we could have used them for something better. For example, coal is non-renewable and one day, since we used it on electricity we will be out.  If we don't protect our environment, no one will."

- Dylan Boyer