Letters are youthful plea for Valley student safety

Every Mount Si High School senior has been personally asked, by letter, to celebrate the end of high school safely. The letters, by fifth grade students throughout the district, asked the older students to not drink and drive, and to not ride with anyone who’d been drinking. It’s an annual tradition at Mount Si, and one that has enthusiastic support from the ASB members. This year a group of about 10 students read through more than 500 letters to choose the best one from each school for a special end-of-year honor, a day of limo rides and games for the writer.

Every Mount Si High School senior has been personally asked, by letter, to celebrate the end of high school safely. The letters, by fifth grade students throughout the district, asked the older students to not drink and drive, and to not ride with anyone who’d been drinking.

It’s an annual tradition at Mount Si, and one that has enthusiastic support from the ASB members. This year a group of about 10 students read through more than 500 letters to choose the best one from each school for a special end-of-year honor, a day of limo rides and games for the writer.

Blake Herman, Student Relations Committee, said plenty of people help with the judging, although it’s a lot of work.

“The letters are very creative, and very colorful,” he said. “Some of the kids spent a lot of time on them, wrote a lot of pages, added glitter, and so on.”

Some of them also tug at the heart, he admitted, with personal stories of how drunk driving has affected them.