La Joya High School
School board recognizes TDS team efforts
The La Joya High School TDS team continues to push for safe driving. One exciting development occurred when members received a proclamation of recognition from their school board declaring that the months of March, April and May are to be officially recognized as teen driving safety months.
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La Joya High School's TDS team created this billboard. Fellow students pass by it each day as a reminder to drive safe.
La Joya TDS team members discuss upcoming plans to promote safe driving.
La Joya TDS team members make ribbons to use as an awareness tool to promote safe driving.
La Joya TDS team members receive a proclamation from their school board declaring March, April and May teen driving safety months.
La Joya students sign a safe driving pledge.
TDS team creates St. Patrick's Day ribbons
The color green symbolizes hope. La Joya TDS team members created customized ribbon and then handed out "support TDS" ribbons on St. Patrick's Day as their way of helping to stop the number-one killer of teens in America.
How students at La Joya HS are coping with a tragic loss
Students at La Joya High School are coping with the tragic loss of a former student and close peer to a fatal car crash this past January. However, eleven students at La Joya HS, including one of the victim's best friends have joined together with the Teens in the Driver Seat program to help spread the message of safe driving to their peers in hopes of preventing future crashes.
Just one week prior to Spring Break, the student group is taking action to spread the importance of driving safety to their peers by:
- placing posters throughout the school,
- passing out business cards during their lunch hour displaying the 5 risk factors that teen drivers face,
- placing green bows around the trees and student parking lot as a reminder for students to stay safe during Spring Break and the rest of the school year,
- and on Friday, March 7th, the school district's police officers will be checking the students as they are released from school to make sure they are wearing their seat belts and distributing a Fact Sheet outlining the importance of staying safe while driving.
When students at La Joya return from Spring Break, they will continue their efforts by distributing green ribbons on St. Patrick's Day as a way of reinforcing the message of knowing the 5 main risk factors teens face behind the wheel.
Read more about La Joya's TDS program on the school's ISD District News website.
In addition, the La Joya High School TDS program is being featured in The Progress Times and La Frontera newspapers. Get the full story online.
- La Joya senior at the wheel of safety campaign
March 7, 2008 (Progress Times) - Por un 'Spring Break' seguro
March 7, 2008 (La Frontera)
