At Cedar High, students make an effort to choose respect, have integrity, and show responsibility and accountability. By making that effort, Cedar students make their homes, school, and community better places for everyone. It is a standard and role that students who choose to take seriously, can make them better leaders and citizens as well as better students.

The Cedar Administration and Faculty make efforts to reward the hard work and dedication of these students with honors. One of the ways that they do this is Student of the Month awards, which is attainable by all the grades and winners of the award are chosen by teachers. Red’s Choice however, is an award only given to seniors chosen by both teachers and fellow students.

Red’s Choice is a special award monthly given to those seniors who have chosen respect, had integrity, and have shown responsibility and accountability all throughout their past high school years as well as continually demonstrating those qualities. Teachers and students can nominate seniors for the award on the school website, recognizing those who have always been good examples of Cedar High students. One of the rewards include a certificate, given by the principal, which can be great for applications to scholarships and jobs. Another exciting treat is the three course meal prepared by the Prostart class for lunch. Those who are chosen are able to bring parents as well.

The lunch is a special affair put together by the Prostart class teacher, Mrs. Johnson. Mrs. Johnson has been a teacher at Cedar High for many years and has taught for even longer. She has a special love for Family and Consumer Sciences because it was the subject that her mother loved and helped teach as well. In addition to that, she loves that the subject teaches students important life skills that benefit them. Mrs. Johnson works hard to make her lessons fun and exciting for the students so that they will love to learn the valuable things she is teaching.

Her Prostart class is a great example of this because Mrs. Johnson is aware of how important a stepping stone the class is into a future of culinary professions. Still, she makes the class fun and gives students real experiences with cooking professionally for larger groups of people– like the Red’s Choice lunch-in.

Each lunch-in, the Prostart class makes a salad and the dressing as a first course, a main course of varying kinds, and a dessert course. Each course is made and served with professionalism– another form of practice for Prostart students– which makes the experience a real reward for those chosen for Red’s Choice and a treat for their parents. Overall, the Red’s Choice Award is a special event for all involved, giving valuable practice to Prostart students and honors to Red’s Choice winners which in turn, benefits the school and community.