Teacher Starts “Students Against Destructive Decisions” Program

Family and Consumer Sciences teacher Sarah Frederickson has seen and heard of too many tragedies happening to high school students — deaths, injuries, pain, loss. What Frederickson thinks makes incidents like these that much more devastating is when they could have been avoided if just a single decision had been different. For that reason, she and chemistry teacher Susan Hallstrom decided to start Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD).

SADD meets every first and third Tuesday of the month at 2:45 p.m. in room 402. Each meeting, they discuss what they as teachers and students can do to educate the student body. They hope to raise student awareness about the dangers of participating in dangerous activities such as underage drinking, texting and driving, impaired driving.

“As a club, our goal is to provide education and resources to the student body so that they can understand how to deal with these situations as they arise,” Frederickson said.

Right now, the group is small, but they encourage anybody who would like to join to come to the meetings and get a feel for who they are as a club. The more people who are involved and interested, the bigger the opportunity for preventing tragedies.

“It is so important to know that some of the decisions that you make right now, as a high school student, will have a significant impact on the rest of your life,” Frederickson said. “There are consequences, good and bad, to every single decision that you make.”