GASO

Many of you may have seen the fence at the back of the school with the letters GASO written in plastic cups. The letters stand for the Great American Smoke Out which takes place on the third Thursday of November each year. This year GASO takes place on November 19, 2009. Students in our REBEL 2 program decorated the fence, produced buttons from our new button maker, and wrote a proclamation that will be read and signed at the November 19th Board of Education meeting. All these efforts are to inform our students about the hazards of smoking. We encourage all smokers to take a 24 hour break from cigarettes and hope that they will prove to themselves that they can do it and begin the process of quitting cigarettes all together. The REBEL 2 students are wearing GASO pins, and when someone approaches them about the button, they explain what it means and why we are participating. After explaining, REBEL 2 students may present the other person with a pin to wear also. The idea is to get our information to spread throughout our school!