White Out Day

On Thursday the 7th Upper Merion participated in white out day to help decrease and prevent drinking and driving at proms. A detective and a grim reaper comes to class's and pulls students out to white out their faces, which represents the lives who died in a drunk car crash. The detective then reads oan obituary that the student previously wrote. For the entire day the student with whited out faces are not allowed to speak to anyone. At the end of the day there was an assembly held where Kathy Pletcher spoke about her own personal experience. She was very soft spoken but still very powerful and got the message across. Students were definitely affected and thought twice before making wrong decisions. Personally as a member of this team I felt that the assembly was empowering and sad. I felt sympathy for Kathy Pletcher and would never want to put someone through that.
"It was very realistic and kind of scary at the same time to know that anyone at any time could die and just not be there, it could be your best friend, the person sitting next to you in math class that you never got around talking to, the girl you see in the hallway, and when the speaker came, by the end of her speech I was in tears. Overall it was very powerful."(Meghan Upper Merion 10th grade student)