TwentEYEighty

For this week, my principal has launched a new persistence campaign to try and get all students in all three grades to become more persistent.  So we had to listen to a reading this morning on persistence and we are also going to have door decorating contest with the theme of persistence.  Not only that, but our teachers are addicted to us learning about persistence so they decide to talk about it any time they can.  However, sometimes it sounds forced.   It seems as if the only thing us students are persistent in is talking.  The persistence campaign (as I’ve begun to call it) is highly annoying to all the people who are already persistent, including me.  It sounds corny, and no one actually cares like at all, so I think there is no point, although I applaud my principals for making an effort.  And here is the best part… They’re bribing us with the fact that if we achieve three green tickets for being persistent, then we get a green bracelet.  Oh joy!  Before writing this, I actually never realized how much alike school and a political campaign are.  It’s actually kind of scary when you think about it.  Both are trying to get you to do something, sometimes you feel they are corny and other times, you think ‘This is great!’.  The people who are running for president have to be very persistent (side note:sometimes i think persistent is a nice word for competitive and stubborn).  You see, they have to convince all of America to like them, and seeing how diverse we are that can’t be easy.  Which is why they have to be very persistent.  And if, in my school of about 600ish people, our principals can’t convince us to do one thing, Obama, Clinton and McCain have to be pretty darn stubborn and competitive.  Hillary Clinton is especially persistent, I think, especially since she is determined to win the Democratic nomination over Obama.  Is she being too persistent however? (Now do you see why persistence just might be another word for competitive and stubborn?)