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i need your advice on starting a Go Green Club at my Highschool, i am not confident.?

i really want to start a Go Green Club at my school, but i am scared and dont have confidence that it would be a success. my school is somewhat filled approx. 65% of thugs and gangsters, and am afriad that if i set up a garden, they would vandalize it, trash it, or ripp up the flowers. i have good ideas but im scared that the ppl in the club would be bored and drop out of it. i hate to see my club filled with only 10 members. should i still do the club? i know i can lead the club, but im afriad the ppl might think my ideas are dumb and lame. i was thinking on making crafts during the meetings lik - turning a milk carton into a wallet, is that lame or dumb idea? - and having an afterschool meeting to paint Go Green themed trashcans by the memebers, then placing the trashcans around the school. - i also wanted to make laminated membership cards, just cus they look cool to have one! - i was also planning to have a garden in an area of the school to plant stuff, but afriad that thugs woulds step on it and ruin it, i would feel so depressed if i found our hard work tarnished and emberrissed to, i dont want ppl see our club looking lame cus ppl trash it. - i was also planning to have meetings after school to also have the members go around to each classroom every other week and collect scrap paper - and on EARTH DAY we can set up a stand and sell food and handmade crafts, lik the wallets and etc. - for fundraising, i was thinking on selling beaded bracelets-- which are "in" at our school right now, with a "go green" letters on it for a dollar - also bottons, bags, lanyard, stickers too - but i havent thought of fieldtrips yet tho. - and i already have cool t shirt design too! i have asked my friends about that idea but many of the said "thugs and gangsters might destroy and not respect our stuff" that just stopped me there. i really hav planns and want to do this, but i dont have confidence and unsure, and thats whats stopping me i am afraid to take the leap, the risk, to start that club, becuase im afriad it would be dumb and lame towards ppl, and nobody would join, what if i gets boring, wat if ppl stop showing up to the meetings, i dont want others clubs and teachers to see this club as a failure! should i do it? and why?

Public Comments

1. I think that is a great idea, and the fact that it took till now for someone to think of it makes it even better. Forget about what others say or might do. It may take a long time to get your club off the ground, but in the long run im sure you will be rewarded for it. Go for it!!!
2. im in middle school and i have the same prob except my middle and high are connected with at least 600 people in each one. about 93% are gangsters and idiots. well last year i started a global awareness club. the crafts are a bad idea to start with give them a reason to join if you can scrape up some money and have a recycling Competition (if you suggested that sorry i didn't read the whole thing) but have a nice prize like a nano ipod. if you don't have the money for that then give out something like a free pizza. just a few starter ideas. hope it all goes well =)
3. I am a teacher, so I understand your concerns about vandalism. I sometimes do programs for our middle school club. Here are a few ideas. Everyone has to eat -- even the disruptive students -- so try to make some of your projects centered around food. Are U going to have an adult sponsor? Your garden could include a bee hive, and maybe that would discourage vanadium. Bees are very important -- without them we would not have a lot of food. Bees pollinate over 70% of our fruits/nuts and vegetable seed plants., Since mysterious bee deaths have been in the news a lot lately, U could have a meeting just to learn how important bees are to human existence. There is lots of info on line for U to download. Try to think of projects that the "tough" kids might be interested in, that way if any of them get involved there is less likely to be vandalism. There are scientists who believe that our water supply could be in danger in the future, and that is another thing we all need to live. So U need to figure out a way to get the students interested in things that we all need. For field trips how about a trip to a recycling center, or a landfill? That may not sound exciting but we all produce trash, so we need to think about where it goes, who has to deal with it, and how we can reduce it. Another field trip could be to a local animal shelter, so students can see first hand how many pets are "thrown away". Maybe have a local vet come as a guest speaker. Bringing in other adults as guest speakers might be interesting. Your idea is great. Don't be afraid to try -- just have a year's worth of programs lined up in your head before U start, and enlist the help of willing teachers and parents. I have done programs on organic foods, bee keeping, and stray animals. Call your local Department of Natural Resources for ideas too. Good luck.
4. First of all, you will have to have a faculty advisor. Your faculty advisor may have some ideas about good activities too. Second of all, leaders are examples and facilitators. Third of all, who cares if you only have 10 members; 10 people can do one heck of a lot of things. In terms of the thugs and gangsters destroying your property and efforts, why would that embarass you? Why should it embarass you? To be embarassed is to have some level or type of shame. I can understand being afraid, angry, hurt, and disappointed but not in being embarassed or ashamed. Equally important, why should or would they respect your efforts more so or differently than anything else in/at school? If your club becomes a force in the school, you can even expect to have "extra attention" from them. I can see that you have ideas, plans, and expectations. But, as a leader of a group, you MUST take into account the ideas, plans, expectations, concepts, skills, and more of your group's membership. In your first meeting, I would run a brain storming effort in which no idea is out of bounds and all ideas are solicited and then written down. If your membership has too diverse of a base, you might consider the facilitating of green activities for individuals and then some group activities. Organizationally, I don't have a firm idea of what you picture the purpose and then the activities of your club. You might want to take all of the brain-stormed ideas and then start grouping them together in different categories. You might find self education, school education, school recycling, and then special projects and/or field trips. Unless you have the power and the means to enact "green" projects within your school, you might want to coordinate some of your activities with things that are going on in the community. For example, develop a set of re-using and re-purposing crafts but, include drawing up a set of directions for each. Then, pitch those directions to other organizations in the community that are looking for re-using and re-purposing ideas. This may mean youth groups such as Girl Scouts or Campfire, church or other grass-roots social groups, or even for use by grade school teachers in your area. If you want to do a planting project at your school, look for ideas that will work within the school's current landscape, ideas for fencing to go with, ideas that do not require maintenance year in and year out, and/or growing food type items for a local food bank. If getting information out is part of your proposed charter, then consider how you can print your own leaflet and/or get access to some of the space in the school newspaper. Don't forget to include practical ideas that can be used by the student body at large; including information about what is available and/or going on in the community may be a good thing too. If you want to start a recycling program for one or more types of items, then work with the administration to start an actual recyling program. I'm not sure that collecting papers once every other week truly constitutes a recylcing program; you could call it an awareness program. You have a lot of fund raising ideas - Why and for what do you need to raise funds? If it were me, I'ld be looking at things that were within the Re-use and Re-purpose catagories. At the same time, make sure it is something that isn't too hokey, is useful, and more. But, before I started raising funds, I'ld be looking at what I planned to use the money for and then advertise that at the same time. As a student, it would be easier for me to support the planting of a tree at my school or out in the world than craft supplies to be used within a closed group.
5. it sounds like an awesome idea great way to try and help out its really turning into a big problem b/c people dont recyle.b/c there fat and lazy too.