The Waycross Exchange Club recognized several Memorial Drive Elementary School students with the Young Citizenship Award.
The award honors pre-high school students who daily demonstrate good citizenship both at school and home.
Receiving the recognition were Avie Griffin, Weston Cooper, Cooper Brooks, Jordan Beasley, Tr’Zion Peterkin, Hannah Rowland, Shelby Whitaker and Harper Lairsey. They were joined by Principal Loni Hines and counselor Tiffany Warren.
The award seeks and rewards students who work hard at being good citizens at home, at school and in the community. They don’t shirk responsibility and cooperate with teachers and parents.
They are not necessarily at the top of their class academically, star athletes, or musical or artistic virtuosos. Still, they are students you would be proud to have as yours.
In practice, the Young Citizenship Award provides classroom teachers with an effective tool to further motivate promising students. It also provides Exchange Club members with an enjoyable opportunity to supply the encouragement that can be so vitally important in shaping the characters of youngsters at an impressionable time in their lives.
The program hopes to prove to the youth good citizenship counts — to show them their conduct and attitude are not only noticed and appreciated, but also rewarded. Hopefully, the recognition at an important stage in their development will encourage them to maintain a high standard of conduct as they mature and grow into adulthood.
