[Speech] Student's Attitude Towards Local Environment

Good morning to Mr. Principal, members of student body and fellow friends. Thank you for Mr. Principal for giving me a chance to present our research on our school student’s attitudes to the local environment. In general, environment can be defined as surrounding of an object. The reason why we conducted the research is to understand and appreciate the inter-relationship among man, his culture and bio-physical surrounding. Other than that, we like to highlights on the environmental problems that commonly occur among students in this school. Therefore, we come up with three categories of environment, where it includes the natural environment, built environment which involving the act of vandalism and social environment along with some suggestion on how we can improve these situations.
As we talking about natural environment nowadays, we have to reflect ourselves on what we have done before this to the natural environment itself. Being such an irresponsible person or students who like to throw the rubbish everywhere, practice open burning and step on the grass that has been prohibited, it makes the environment become worst day by day. As we reflect back, this is all because our attitude itself. If we can change our attitude, I absolutely believe that we can also make a difference. Furthermore, what we have to bear in our mind is that, being a student is not just learning things in the class, but we also have to learn on how to manage our nature or our respective land or in other words our environment itself because we live in this world as a community and we are not alone. Thus, we should consider certain things to make sure that all the people can live in peace without being disturb by the others or by our attitude that can gives an impact to the society itself. In order to preserve and conserve the environment, we as a student should practice an environmental - friendly lifestyle. In this situation, if we practice this, we can avoid ourselves from doing things that are harmful to the environment such as throw rubbish not at the correct places, but we actually trying to changes our attitude by keeping the rubbish such as sweet wrappers in our pocket first until we find a dustbin to throw it away. Besides, if we practice this kind of lifestyle, we also conserve the environment as we will change our attitude by buried all the rubbish in a hole instead of practicing open burning. Hence, this attitude will somehow make us to preserve and at the same time conserve the environment. If our environment can be preserved and conserved by this kind of attitude, I believe that there will be no more questions about how to make sure that our local environment can be maintain safe and clean. Recently, a few groups of student have started to show their rudeness as many areas had been affected by the vandalisms that are done by them. Vandalism which is a deliberate mischief or damage of property is usually done by student as they wanted to show off their strength to the others and this is mostly due the egoistic personality that they had developed as they grow. Because of the ego that they have, every group of student would like themselves to be well known by others and in order to achieve this, they purposely create vandalism. Moreover, the damages that are done are also the result of a fight that held between two groups of student. To demonstrate this, when there are two different groups of student which have different personality came into a fight, they will used all the stuff that they tend to see in front of them such as chair and take it to be used as a tool or weapon to win the fight. As a result, more of the school facility will be broken down and it also gives a detrimental effect towards their health. This kind of “activity” is not acceptable as it incurs high cost for the school administration to repair or to buy new stuff and also the illness effect that the student will suffer later. However, students do not even think about the problem that will be face by them and by the school. Consequently, more and more types of vandalisms will occur and more reports on damages on school facilities will be hear. Therefore, as a recommendation to prevent this kind of attitude to occur towards the building, I would suggest students to use their strength and ability for something that can benefit them more. It is well known that teenagers have a lot of energy to get out. They also have a lot of aggression in them at times. So, it is better for the administrator to provide them a place to show off their ability in a good way which is of course not contributing to any damage towards the local environment. Such an activity must aim for giving them the opportunity to be well known by providing a title for the winners. To illustrate this, the student representative council could organize a cultural night or “Students Got Talent” where they can show their ability and provide a reasonable prize for the winner. These will not only preventing damages to occur but also indirectly providing the student a path to do something when they are boring. Therefore, it can prevent the students from doing something that is not benefiting others but giving them a good opportunity to shine.
Other than that, students’ attitude towards the teachers in the school also attracts the attention of the school administrator. It is not deniable that the students show the high respect to the teachers. Greets that was given by the students to the teachers whenever the students pass through the teachers also has give good impression towards our school students. Unfortunately, students do not show the same attitudes and give the same treatment towards the school staffs and workers. They show no respect when communicate to the staff and school workers. Recently, there was a report from a cleaner that a student had scolded the cleaner when the cleaner advice the student not to throw thrash everywhere. This serious problem can be solved by the involvement of the school administrators. The administrators had agreed to give the strict punishment to the students if the teachers get the report from the staff about the students’ bad attitude towards the staffs. The punishment that is agreed is public canning during the formal assembly in the hall. This punishment is not made to embarrass the students but to give lesson to the students and the others to not repeat the same fault. Other than that, our school administrators also had agreed to do the manner campaign in our school. The objective is to increase the communication skills among the students and to culture the good manner in students’ personality. In a nutshell, we believe that by overcome this environmental illness among students and change their attitudes towards better person, we are able to create a better environment for the school and have more peace and balanced ecosystem among us. Thus, we strongly suggest the members of student body to take actions on how we can improve our natural, built and social environment for a better living. We hope that student body can acknowledges the problems and consider the solutions that we have brought up just now on how to overcome these problems. With that we end our speech. Thank You.

Written by;
Muhammad Fariz Zaidi
Muhammad Luqman Afiq
Muhammad Afiq Anuar
Ummusa’adah Sulaiman