LCCHS Social Justice students collect food for the needy
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Students from teacher Christopher Greenslate's Social Justice class at La Costa Canyon High School in Carlsbad recently challenged themselves to collect a nonperishable food item from every student at the school to help the local community.
They accomplished that goal by collecting more than 3,600 nonperishable food items amounting to more than 4,000 pounds of food that was distributed to the Community Resource Center's Basket Program.
Greenslate's class gives students a chance to address issues they see as potential threats to the progress of social justice. The issues addressed in class include but are not limited to war, hunger, racial and religious prejudice, equal marriage rights, respect for people with disabilities, prisoners' rights, homelessness, domestic violence, animal rights, global warming and environmental preservation.
The students are encouraged to choose an issue and find a way to fight that problem directly. Five students chose hunger, which resulted in the drive. Others have chosen local projects including beach clean-up and preservation, sweatshop-free merchandise, recycling and construction projects.
Right, a group of Social Justice students holds up a sign representing the number of food items they collected.
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