Promises, Promises, Promises

By Shani A

First day of the freshman year for graduating class 2011, Labriah Morgan and Chyann Howard come to school excited about what they were going to do after school. Labriah said, “I’m going to join the dance team.” Chyann said, “ Yeah, that’ll be great, I’m going to join choir”! As the day came to an end, Labriah and Chyann went to Mrs. Thompson and ask her where to meet. Mrs. Thompson grinned weirdly “ What are you talking about?” They reminded her of the brochure. It said we would have these clubs. Thompson said, “ We don’t have them yet, we were planning those, but we need your help to get them started” Then the girls exclaimed, “What! Are you serious! “I don’t even want to join anything now. I’m just so mad right now!” Chyann agree and follows Labriah out. Mrs. Thompson just grinned and walked away.
Many students agree that at Constitution High School promises that were made and never kept. Many of them also agree that we need more clubs/ after school activities. Not just for fun but clubs that will help us in the future. Chyann Howard, a tenth grade student here at CHS said, “Different ideas and more activities can bring us together.” Labriah Morgan, another 10th grader suggested that we create clubs that have us prepare for college or even create something that everyone will be interested in such as singing, dancing, theatre, fashion etc. I suggested that the school let the students create the clubs in order to get more students involved. If we did, we will have more clubs for the school and lots of students will be interested.

When I asked Ms. Sedgwick, the school counselor, if she agrees with letting the students create the clubs, she said, “Yes, I agree that students should create clubs.” She also told me the kinds of clubs that she had when she was in high school that can be good for our school. Ideas that can get more students involved is to start planning events, hold different fundraisers, create surveys for students and get teachers involved as well.

However changes still need to be made. The school brochures list all clubs that we did not have. Some of them are still not at our school. But as a school we can work to get clubs that students prefer. As we all know Dr. Davidson our school principal, created the school brochures along with Mrs. Thompson he also hires all the teachers. In an interview with our principal he said, ”The selection of sports teams were made by a group of students who met with athletic administrators from the district.” He also said that he would like to see yearbook and a multicultural club get started. But one problem he stated was that we have a small school, which is impossible to have everything. I asked him did he agree about having the kids create the clubs that their interested in and he agreed but said it’s his job to see if it is possible and how we can get it done. Hopefully Constitution High School can work together as a school and get more clubs done.

When a promise is broken you feel angry and upset because they promised to keep their word but instead they broke it. As for a solution to this school, I think we should get more students to create more clubs that they are interested in, but what do you think our solution should be? Email our principal Dr. Davidson at trdavidson@philasd.org and tell him what you think we can do.