Recently, people have been assisting the Advanced Placement classes in paying for the tests. These people don’t even know us, yet they’re willing to donate money and help us when we need them most. They care about us and what we do to help us strive towards a better future. These same people who believe in us come out to our sporting events and cheer for our teams no matter what. They have faith in us, yet we don’t have faith in ourselves.

Faith. It’s believing in something bigger than yourself, believing in the people who surround you, and believing in yourself.

It’s hard to see that positivity in our school. People assume that a lot of us are troublemakers who could not care less about our future. They sometimes write us off as unimportant based on the rumors they’ve heard and the assumption they’ve made. They don’t take a close look at who we actually are but what they want to see in us. And because of those people, we start to believe that what they say about us is true. But it’s not.

We’re fully capable of learning and growing. We just have to believe that we’re just as good as any other high school. Because we are. We have inspirational teachers, dedicated coaches, loyal alumni, and impeccable sports facilities. We have everything we need to be a great school, but we’re missing one thing. And that’s the will to do and be better.

People who don’t even know us personally are willing to support us. If they can do that then we should be able to reward them by being better students and athletes.

As a student body we need to stand up for our school and demand that people see us differently. We have great things going on around campus and it’s about time that we embrace them. The bad reputation that our school seems to have is based on people who know nothing about us. We need to give people a reason to see passed our false reputation and into the fact that we’re just a bunch of teenagers who are trying to find our place in the world. And some people do understand this.

We allow people to talk badly about our school and sometimes we talk badly about it as well. How can we expect others to change their perspective of us if we have no pride towards our school? It’s time that we change the way we’re viewed by some and in order to do that we have to have positivity. It’s time people see that we’re just as good as any other school out there.

Faith goes a long way. We have to believe in ourselves and what we have to offer the world. As a school we need to have pride in who are and what we represent. It’s about time that people see us for who we are. We are a school full of potential and it’s time that we reach it for those people who do believe in us.