EDITOR: Over the years I
’ve noticed the ducks have been escaping from Community Park and
they are not safe. They disrupt the peace of the road. It’s
starting to get out of hand.
EDITOR:
Over the years I’ve noticed the ducks have been escaping from Community Park and they are not safe. They disrupt the peace of the road. It’s starting to get out of hand. I know this because I live by Community Park. Also, I know this because when I go to school, sometimes we find a duck in our way. It makes us late. When ducks get hurt, it results in a fine to the driver. It’s not right to control nature, but in this case it is. In this case we’re protecting the unprotected and protecting ourselves.
The ducks at Community Park should be fenced and protected. I have noticed that there are more and more ducks in the road. It needs to be stopped. Think about it, how would you like it if a duck hit your windshield? So I took charge and called City Hall. I found that there had been 25 calls about ducks this year. Even more interesting, one-fifth of those calles were about ducks on the road. A mom at Community Park says, “Ducks are on the road like pencils are on paper.” Marc, who watches his sisters softball games there, says “Ducks are a menace.” But Derek, another students that plays in Community Park, disagreed, “If drivers try to kill them, it’s right to fine them. But, if a duck is on the road and the driver can’t stop in time, then they should not get fined.”
On that note, lets talk about unnecessary fines. So, how would you like it if you got fined for something that wasn’t your fault? My friend’s mom hit a duck and she was mad. She thought that it wasn’t right that she was fined since the duck walked into the road. She couldn’t stop in time. Our subsitute teacher, who lives near Community Park, said her son ran into a duck only because the duck unexpectedly jumped onto the road. But a pupil at Barrett says, “If ducks are endangered, keep on paying.” My grandpa agrees and grumbles, “ There are so many animals extinct that humans haven’t appreciated. The mallards are dying. Appreciate them while you can.”
To take care of this problem, we need to control nature. This leads us to our second problem, nobody’s doing it. Marc says, “It’s like a computer. If you don’t fix a problem, it will keep getting worse and worse.” At the entrance of Community Park is a big opening next to the road. I’ve seen lots of ducks get out of the park there, mostly ducklings. If we fence that part off, it will reduce ducks on the road since ducklings can’t fly as well as full grown ducks.
Just imagine a happy grandpa duck taking his afternoon waddle. It’s a sunny day as he takes his steps on to the road thinking, “What a wonderful world.” Jus as life was so perfect, BAM! A car runs over his left wing, then across his stomach. Coughing and wheezing disrupt his perfect life. A sunny Saturday turned as if evil had conquered it. A blackened sky, clouds rumbling over him, throwing lightning bolts and descending rain. Drops of rain pelting his beak. He looks up and lightning strikes miles above him and he dies. This is what will happen if we don’t solve the problem.
Alex Hodges,
Morgan Hill
