Saturday, October 17, 2009

High School Boundaries

Recently the high school boundaries for my area were changed. I was moved from Davis High to Layton High boundaries. Boundary variances are given in the spring for the 10th-12th grade students. Because I am not in the boundaries and in 9th grade, I can not participate in Davis High Cross Country, my dream. The district should grant variances before 9th grade. Students might like to switch high schools for academics or different activities. There has been much disagreement in my area about the boundaries, especially since the last change. I think if they changed the timeframe for granting variances there would be less disagreement.
The students going into 9th grade should be able to apply to receive variances to the high school they would like to go to before 9th grade. Since I was young I dreamed of running for Davis and the boundary change took away a full year of Cross Country. What if someone that moves in wants a variance or what if someone changes their mind and they want one, and all of them are gone? Each high school should give out half of their variances a year in advance. This would make people able to go out for sports as a student in 9th grade.
By this little change it could have a huge difference in a ton of lives. It could help people get their dreams. This would help people so they are not in the same situation as me.

I entered the essay contest for this class. It took me forever to edit it. I always had and probably have something wrong in the essay and in what I am writing now. Sometimes it just did not flow right. So to finish my 500 words I am just going to talk about my experience righting the essay.
When I started I chose to write about how the boundaries for high school have affected me. I had a couple ideas to fix my problems from cross country. It made me really made when the Layton coach went to the district and got me in trouble. I was only in trouble for working out with them. I still do not understand at all why that is a problem. It just makes me dislike the Layton coach a little. Okay a little more than a little. But then I was taught in seminary to forgive. So I have forgiven him, yup I have. I just hope those in the future in my place will not have the same problems as me. I hope that someone will consider my idea and take it to action. It took me a while to right this essay. So I just used it in my blog. I thought it was pretty good. After I had it written it was three hundred and fifty words. For the contest it can only be two hundred and fifty. So I had to take out almost a third of my essay to get it right.

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