On Thursday 75 freshmen from Mountain Home Junior High School traveled to Hackler Intermediate School, where they performed a skit and held a pep rally to encourage the younger students to be active in school and to remain drug free.
The Freshman Academy teamed up with the students in grades three through five as a part of an integrated project during National Red Ribbon Week. Freshman advisory classes made posters, door decorations and wrote letters to encourage Hackler students to do the right thing and stay drug free.
During the event, the ninth grade band members performed for the younger students as a way to show them that they can be involved and have fun in school without using drugs. “I hope we motivated the Hackler students today to cause them to look forward to participating in things in junior high and high school, and I hope that encourages them to stay off drugs,” freshman Trey Czeschin says.
Sadie Quick, who participated in the skit and got the crowd excited with her fellow cheerleaders said she wanted the younger students to see they have a lot of safe, fun options. “Today’s assembly showed them that there are lots of alternatives to doing bad things,” she says.
Audrey Young, a freshman band student and cheerleader echoed Quick’s sentiments. “I hope we convinced them that you don’t have to do drugs to have fun,” she says.
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