HILLIARD, Ohio -- At some schools, when walking into the stadium, the ground is littered with water bottles, pizza slices and football-game-onlooker paraphernalia.
However, after the first Bradley football game, several members of the junior class decided that they were going to stay behind and clean up the mess left in the student section.
“The stands were trashed, and we didn’t want to leave our brand-new stadium a mess,” student Nick Connor said.
“I told them that they didn’t have to do it,” said Principal David Stewart. “But they insisted, saying it’s ‘their school.’ That’s the neatest thing … that no one told them to do it. They just came up and asked for the trash bags.”
These juniors voluntarily helped clean up by going up to the top of the stands and kicking everything down -- row by row. Then they picked it all up at the bottom.
“We didn’t want or even expect recognition. It was just a matter of pride,” Connor said.
Fellow junior Alisha Macintosh agreed.
“We want to show our community that we care about our school,” she said.
This story first was written for Hilliard Bradley’s The Reporter and shared with NBC 4 as part of a media collaboration between schools and the station.
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