Sunday, October 14, 2007

Speech regarding Students Right by AMY TRAN

Student: No person thinks more highly than I do of the caring, as well as the devotion, of our faculty members, who have been guiding and watching us over our high school careers. But everyone have their own opinion, and I can’t help it if mine is different from their; I don’t mean to be disrespectful, but sometimes I must question the ways our school is run. Is high school not a road that will slowly prepare us for the world, a place equal freedom and rights, if so, why do our staff members insisted that some of our right is taken away?
Before I entered Garfield High School, I had heard many tales regarding how wonderful it is, and how it allow it students freedom that was not seen in other schools. Yet for the past two years, all I have seen is how we are revoked of our rights as students, one by one. Now as I'm entering my junior year and being bury underneath a pile of schoolwork, instead of feeling as if I'm prepare for the world, I feel worn out and like a sheep about to be slaughter by the upcoming exams and tested.
While I agreed that we need to be devout students, committing ourselves to our schoolwork, school and community, it is just as important to have fun. It is quite
important to have those two balance each other out, if not the staff members might have a lot of cases of students being burn out even before their senior year on their hand. We should be allowed to have fun and enjoyed our high school. If my fear of offending someone stop me from voicing out my opinion, I might as well be the one killing my fellow students and classmates with the the pain of betraying them.
My fellow students, it is quite natural for us to blind ourselves with ignorance. But one cannot be blind forever, we cannot close our eyes and hope that our situation will get better. Hope alone cannot accomplish anything. If we have any hope to make our high school life a enjoyable one, then my fellow students, I urged you to speak up. People cannot hear your thought if you do not voice them out loud.

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