THE PANTHER'S POST

Photo by Jennifer Alejo High schoolers created advocacy groups to work with community partners and discuss various issues in the city. With the help of English teacher and college counselor, Jennifer Alejo, students have been participating in discussions on city issues. The advocacy groups cover education, immigration reform, criminal justice reform, Green Memphis, food deserts and Fight for Fifteen. “At the end of last year, we wanted more engagement between PVS students and

Pleasant View School fifth-grade students are keeping the campus clean with a new monthly activity, “Clean Up Day.” It started as a class assignment by science teacher Cecilia Williams. Her students were tasked to collect trash on campus and discuss what was recyclable. The students found some recyclable items but most were just trash. So they decided they needed to clean it up. Williams created a competition for the two fifth-grade classes to see how much they could pick up