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| S.T.A.T.U.S. Holds Destructive Decisions Week | ||
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| By Christina Earon Moapa Valley Progress Submitted Mar. 5, 2008 As the students at Moapa Valley High School walked in to the school early Monday morning, March 3, they noticed something different. The halls were plastered with posters showing different statistics about teens and alcohol, illegal drugs, unprotected sex, and smoking. Monday was the kick off of Destructive Decisions Week at Moapa Valley High School. Students Taking Action to Terminate Unlawful Substances (STATUS), are working this week to send a message to their classmates to avoid making destructive decisions. S.T.A.T.U.S. is a group of teenagers who have pledged to a drug-free lifestyle. The goal of the club’s Destructive Decisions Week is to help other students be drug-free as well. The members want to try to set a serious mood for the week and hope to keep students from making bad decisions. STATUS club leaders say that they believe that their generation needs to fight against the negative and life-altering decisions. “This is a war. We are all on the front line,” said Cynthia Taylor, a MVHS senior and S.T.A.T.U.S. member. Taylor brought the idea of Destructive Decisions Week from her previous school in Reno, NV. There, she attended a larger school of about 1500 students and she said that there was quite a bit of drug activity in the school. This Reno school held Destructive Decisions Week every year and would have people in the school come and talk about their old drug habits and how it affected their life as well as the people around them. Taylor hopes to keep the new tradition of Destructive Decisions Week alive for many more years to come. |
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