Seagulls come for food, they search everyday, and as they fly over our school at lunchtime it is like heaven for them. They stay at our school as unwanted guests and fire bird droppings where they please, some land on our fellow students and cause problems that are avoidable.
Our school is infested with troublesome creatures with wings that soar over our heads and take a dive at our trash. The pests will only leave with one solution, picking up our trash. Pitman students who drop their trash on the ground add to the seagull trouble. There are punishments for littering on our campus; punishment varies and is determined by a dean or other administration official to decide which one is proper. Trash cans are all over the campus and are with in feet of each other. Is it so much to ask for someone to take two seconds out of their 45 minute lunchtime to toss trash into the can so our campus can be clean?
Feeding the seagulls, on the other hand, is not only irresponsible, but it is unwise. This action will only attract other birds, and is considered littering by the school and is also punishable by school rules. If this trash and feeding problem is not changed, the sky over the school will be crowded by our unwanted guests, and Zack, a campus supervisor at our school, agrees, “If you leave food on the ground the birds will come, they will be there. If there is no food on the ground there will be no birds.”
This unnecessary problem can be fixed, but students will need to pick up after themselves to make that happen. Food on the ground equals a free snack for hungry birds. If you’ll notice, the birds only fly around during lunch. At the beginning of school, the birds wait. Lunch time rolls around and the birds take flight to get some of our food and trash. At the end of the day, the birds disappear. This process takes place everyday, but if we don’t allow the birds free access to our trash, the birds will need to find a more acceptable location and leave our school.
Please take pride in our school and throw your trash away, two seconds of our time is little to ask to keep our great school clean and bird-free.