by Becca Warfel
3/3/2011
Students at Neoga High School are taking a stand against drugs and violence in their upcoming album, Kill the Silence. The album is part of the Nobody’s Fool CD project, a class activity started in 1999 by teacher Martin Gibson, created to help combat the growing drug problem in American teenagers. With the help of teacher Stephen Poggendorf and the students of the Poetry Club, the Nobody’s Fool project has grown from a class activity into a school wide undertaking.
Kill the Silence, when released, will be the twelfth album produced by the rural Illinois school and will include four songs written, performed, and recorded by students at the school. Genres chosen for the CD include heavy metal, indie, techno, and goth metal, and each one of these musical genres will take a unique viewpoint of modern drug use and the impact it has on teenagers today. From experimentation to addiction, students tell the story of drug usage in a voice that is rarely found in health textbooks and documentaries: their own.
Contact: Marty Gibson, NHS, (217)-895-2205, mgibson@neoga.k.12.il.us
