Maddie Scullion, Kate Salvo, and Marissia Potamianos<\/p>\n
Editors<\/p>\n
\u201cVery eye opening\u201d and \u201cmoving\u201d are words used by senior Emily O\u2019Connor and sophomore Willa Shiomos to describe Jacy Good\u2019s destructive driving presentation. Good came to Jamesville-DeWitt High School to tell her story on Nov. 21. It all started the day of her college graduation. She was with her mom and dad on their way home from the ceremony when they were hit by an 18-year-old distracted driver. Both of her parents were killed and she was left with many injuries, including a brain injury. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The Student Against Destructive Decisions Club, along with English teacher Joseph Goldberg helped to bring this very influential speaker to J-DHS. Mr. Goldberg is also a drivers-ed teacher, and he heard Ms. Good speak at a conference. He was moved by her stories and believed that it would be a good experience for the students to hear such an enlightening speaker. After hearing her story, Mr. Goldberg turned to health teacher and adviser of the SADD club, Melissa Moore, to help get Ms. Good here. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Junior Chloe Hayward is the president of SADD. \u201cI think people really liked it because it was a personal account, which made it more real,\u201d said Hayward. She thinks that because the presentation was serious, Ms. Good\u2019s message stayed with people. \u201cAfter hearing Jacy speak, I realized that you have to start with yourself to make the roads a safer place,\u201d said sophomore Giovanni Antonucci. Similar to Antonucci, O\u2019Connor thinks twice about using her phone in the car. \u201cI am much more cautious about making sure my phone is on silent and away while driving,\u201d she said. Mr. Goldberg said that he received lots of positive feedback from students after Ms. Good\u2019s presentation. \u201cEven walking down the hallway with her after, she was mobbed by students wanting pictures with her,\u201d he said. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n SADD wanted to keep Jacy\u2019s campaign, \u201cHang Up and Drive\u201d, alive at J-DHS. They heard about AT&T\u2019s no texting campaign called #X. \u201cWhenever you\u2019re texting someone and you\u2019re about to get in a car, you\u2019re supposed to text them #X so they know you\u2019re about to get behind the wheel and that you won\u2019t be able to respond,\u201d said Mrs. Moore. They printed AT&T\u2019s campaign on little sheets of paper and tried to get as many students as possible to sign them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maddie Scullion, Kate Salvo, and Marissia Potamianos Editors \u201cVery eye opening\u201d and \u201cmoving\u201d are words used by senior Emily O\u2019Connor and sophomore Willa Shiomos to describe Jacy Good\u2019s destructive driving presentation. Good came to Jamesville-DeWitt High School to tell her story on Nov. 21. It all started the day of her college graduation. She was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}