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Central Lee JEL members educate peers
For MVM News Network
DONNELLSON - Central Lee JEL (Just Eliminate Lies) members decided to scare their peers on Halloween.
They didn't wear scary costumes or jump out at them - they gave them the scary facts on tobacco.
When students arrived at school on Halloween, they found chalk outlines of bodies in the courtyard and parking lot.
Signs on the doors told students that the chalk-outlined bodies were a representation of Iowans who die each year from second-hand smoke.
JEL is a tobacco-free student advocacy group.
Nearly 500 Iowans die each year from second-hand smoke. The students didn't trace 500 bodies, but they did enough to make a statement.
“One of the teachers came up to me and thought some mass murder had really happened here,” said student Alex Zaprudsky, JEL-Hawks president, “and then she goes...duh! It's for JEL!”
To strengthen the message, members created a “Tobacco: The Haunting Truth” quiz to give to each Seminar class. Mr. Kropf's PE and Mr. Boeck's agriculture classes were the winners of the quiz. Each student in the class received a JEL T-shirt and pencil.
The goal of the Halloween activity was to get a message to students on the dangers of tobacco use.
“Over all, it went well, and it was a really convincing display,” said Zaprudsky. “We accomplished our goal.”
DONNELLSON - Central Lee JEL (Just Eliminate Lies) members decided to scare their peers on Halloween.
They didn't wear scary costumes or jump out at them - they gave them the scary facts on tobacco.
When students arrived at school on Halloween, they found chalk outlines of bodies in the courtyard and parking lot.
Signs on the doors told students that the chalk-outlined bodies were a representation of Iowans who die each year from second-hand smoke.
JEL is a tobacco-free student advocacy group.
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“One of the teachers came up to me and thought some mass murder had really happened here,” said student Alex Zaprudsky, JEL-Hawks president, “and then she goes...duh! It's for JEL!”
To strengthen the message, members created a “Tobacco: The Haunting Truth” quiz to give to each Seminar class. Mr. Kropf's PE and Mr. Boeck's agriculture classes were the winners of the quiz. Each student in the class received a JEL T-shirt and pencil.
The goal of the Halloween activity was to get a message to students on the dangers of tobacco use.
“Over all, it went well, and it was a really convincing display,” said Zaprudsky. “We accomplished our goal.”
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