“”The entire student body from Lincoln Middle School/SOTA II/Coulee Montessori along with teachers and staff joined together today for a community service project. The project was part of the school’s Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS) program which reinforces respect, responsibility, and relationship building.
Working with the City of La Crosse’s Parks and Recreation Department, school officials identified zones in the Washburn neighborhood to be cleaned up. The students and staff were organized into groups and moved through specific blocks in public spaces to pick up debris and loose trash.
“I think it’s important that the residents of the City of La Crosse understand that our students make a positive impact,” said Lincoln Middle School/SOTA II/Coulee Montessori Dean of Students Eric Check. “The students do a lot of work in the city because they take pride in the neighborhood where their school is and want to give back any way they can to the community that always supports them and their education.”
“It’s important to help the environment and to help keep the neighborhood around school clean,” said Lincoln Middle School sixth-grader Asher Peterson. “It feels good to know that people living around here can walk around and not have to have garbage on the ground. It just looks nicer.”
The students left the tied-up bags of collected trash at designated areas where city crews agreed to pick the bags up.
“Our students are demonstrating a greater concern for the renewal of this neighborhood,” said teacher Mandi Hundt. “Throughout the district are examples of our students’ interests in becoming civic-minded citizens. Their efforts are not only improving our schools every day but now our neighborhoods too.”””””[vc_gallery type=”flexslider_slide” interval=”0″ images=”12666,12659,12660,12661,12662,12663,12664,12665,12658,12667″ img_size=”625×417″]””
