By Opinions Editor Richelle Rorick
Courtesy of Kennedy High Friday Night Live Club
Kennedy students decorating the campus for Red Ribbon week.
Red Ribbon Week has been a yearly event at the end of October for many schools to recognize. It represents why students or anyone should not do drugs, and motivates the students to be drug-free.
Red Ribbon Week began because of the sacrifice of a man, Enrique (Kiki) S. Camarena in the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) who went to stop the country's biggest marijuana and cocaine traffickers in 1985.
Camarena, during his job of trying to stop the drug traffickers, was kidnapped and killed. In his hometown of Calexico, California, the “Camarena Club” was started to honor him and others who have sacrificed their lives by wearing red ribbons and pledging a drug-free life. This eventually became an across the country event, called “Red Ribbon Week”
Here at Kennedy High School, for the week of Oct. 28-Nov. 1, the ASB has chosen to represent Red Ribbon Week with themes and spirit days to help the students remember this week and why the school celebrates it.
The spirit days were “Red-y To Be Drug-Free” (students wear red), “Drug-Free Looks Like Me” (twin with someone), “Lei Off Drugs” (Hawaiian attire), “Scare Off Drugs” (Halloween costumes), and “Fighting (Irish) To Be Drug-Free” (wear green).
“I found that Red Ribbon Week has always reminded me why I shouldn’t do drugs and how it can affect me,” senior Hayden Herrera said.
It should be known how Red Ribbon Week came to be and why schools celebrate it. This helps future generations become more knowledgeable about drugs and to become drug-free.
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