Luck Public Schools

Luck, Wisconsin

Teacher Barbara Petersen

 

 

 

My Responsibilities

By Aaron Johnson

12th grade

 

 

My personal responsibility would have to be changed to my personal  responsibilities.  There so many different issues in the whole world that  need to be changed.

           

I’ll start first on the subject of violence in schools.  Sometimes I sit  and wonder if our school could be the next Littleton, Colorado, casualty.   What can we as Luck High School students do to see that this never happens? 

 

First,  I would say is to be a friend to everyone.  Get to know them.  Learn  to be a good listener.  I believe that sometimes people go to extremes to  get the attention of others.  If someone notices something strange, they  should talk to someone that that person can trust.  People may be able to  stop the problem before it becomes one.  I’m not going to give any names,  but I could name a few students in our high school that would do such a  violent act.  Last year there was a student who supposedly had gun prices,  Nazi symbols, and even a hit list in his or her notebook.  I know that this  wouldn’t be that fair to most of the students, but if we could have metal detectors in school, I would feel a lot safer.  Without any way of knowing what students are bringing to school, no school will ever be safe.

           

My next discussion is on teen driving.  I hate when older people try to tell us that the reason there are so many car accidents is because of young drivers. Sometimes they’re right.  It’s not always our fault, it can be older people and middle aged people, too.  Though I can agree with them.  I know how teens drive.  I’m one myself, and it can be scary.  Adults think that it is our lack of experience.  I disagree with that.  We choose to drive like maniacs, and that’s what most of us are inexperienced at.  If we all drove like “good little people,” then I’m almost positive that we could  say that we weren’t the cause of these horrible accidents.  My responsibility is to drive conservatively.  I need to be a positive example and show teens that it’s cool to drive with caution.

           

Another problem in our community, and others, is the lack of excitement to keep us occupied.  I can say, I have been in my share of trouble around  town.  If the village could open up a bowling alley, a couple of good eating areas, or even a place where just teens are a loud to be, I feel that would lower the chances of teens getting in trouble.  All the village needs to do is keep the towns somewhat modernized.

           

Over the past couple of summers I have worked at the Luck Golf Course.  Just this past summer my boss insisted that we give our customers a  pleasant time while they were in Luck, either golfing or just visiting our  beautiful course, because a majority of the golfers on the weekend were from out of state.  My fellow workers and I did a pretty good job at that. Over  the 1999 season my boss was complimented on the conditions of the course and the courtesy of the workers.  I also feel that individually I made the customers feel welcome.  There were times when people in a certain party wouldn’t show up on time for their tee time.  When the people would show up, we were always willing to take them on a cart and bring them to their party.

 

Other times there were people who had their own carts stored in the sheds at the course and asked if we would have time to give them a quick wash. My number one concern was to satisfy that customer.  Another time I noticed that there was a car in the parking lot that had a flat tire. First, I found  out whose car it was, then I drove out onto the course to find them, and tell them. I ended up taking the car over to the maintenance shed and filling it up with more air.  My goal for next year at the golf course is to do the same but even better.

           

 The four issues that I have discussed are just a small portion of the real problems in today’s society.  I wish that I could have the ability to make a difference in all the problems, but I can’t.  What I can do is make a difference in the issues that I have talked about. My responsibility in the end, I believe, is to always be true to myself, keeping what I believe in most important, and never allowing anyone to change who I am.  This will reflect how I communicate with the community and others.