Doing the Right Thing

          On Veterans Day, I participated in a school clean-up with environmental club. During the clean-up, about an hour in, one of my friends found a bunch of progress reports strewn about. He brought them over to where we were and I straightened the papers and put them in a bag. I noticed that on the reports, I could see the students grades and also their address. This is not a good thing for a school to be making available to the general public; anyone could have walked on the campus and found those reports. I walked the reports down to the office, but I doubted anyone would be there, being Veterans Day. We knocked on windows and peeked through doors, and finally one person opened a door and asked us what we needed. We told him what happened and where we found the reports. I set them down on a chair and walked back to my friends.
          On the Monday after Veterans Day, I went to the office before school and asked a lady if the reports went to the right person. She said they had not been moved, and so she asked me for my name and where I found the reports. I told her the information, then went to the class I had for first period. I thought about what I had done, and inside I felt good, like I did the right thing, which I did. I could have done multiple things, I could have thrown the papers away, I could have went to the media and told them, or I could have left the papers where they were when we found them.
          I know it can be hard to do the right thing, but if we ever find our self in a situation where we could do multiple things, make the right decision, not only will you feel good about yourself but you will help someone else by making their life easier.