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SOSS! Save Our School Spirit! My name is Samuel Alcime and I am a teacher at North Miami Senior High. I am the product of my community and the trinity that is North Miami Senior, Middle and Elementary. I know that you all are very busy people and I pray that you forgive the ramblings of a tired and overworked teacher, but I am a very organic writer and must write as I think and more importantly how I feel. In writing this message I made an important connection in the simplicity of the word product. My school once produced people proud to be Pioneers. Today my school produces people who long to be anything other than who and what they actually are. High school is such a critical juncture in life that it is difficult to find who you are when the environment around you is in turmoil and does not allow you the time to mature or provide positive associations that are the building blocks of self and esteem.
Simple logic dictates that the product is what determines the tree. Apples come from an apple tree. Oranges come from an orange tree. With no evidence of what a tree produces it is impossible to tell the type of tree. This brings me to the purpose of this message; I would like your help in changing the product that our school produces by changing the perception of our school and its students.
Though cliché I do believe that perception is reality. I would like students to know that great people once walked the halls at North Miami Senior High or their lives were impacted by someone who did. I would like them to make positive associations with their school and community and arrive at different product for the equation that leads to success. To truly believe that you are great you must see greatness, define greatness, aspire for greatness, work toward greatness and one day attain greatness. But I believe that the first step in this journey is first to perceive that you are capable of great things and the simplest way to come to that realization is to know that the place you reside has, is and will continue to produce a product that is great.
I have stared a small free school magazine that is student driven. The students conduct interviews, write the stories, take the pictures, design the layouts, record video and push all the content through an app they created. Again, cliché, but this magazine is for students, by students, and about students. I hope that I have not taken up too much of your time and hope that you are able to provide me some help in changing the culture and perception of my school and by doing so affecting change in the lives of over 3000 students their families and an entire community. I would like to have the new issue of the magazine my students have created printed at a local print shop, to be given away at our school and surrounding community.
Simple logic dictates that the product is what determines the tree. Apples come from an apple tree. Oranges come from an orange tree. With no evidence of what a tree produces it is impossible to tell the type of tree. This brings me to the purpose of this message; I would like your help in changing the product that our school produces by changing the perception of our school and its students.
Though cliché I do believe that perception is reality. I would like students to know that great people once walked the halls at North Miami Senior High or their lives were impacted by someone who did. I would like them to make positive associations with their school and community and arrive at different product for the equation that leads to success. To truly believe that you are great you must see greatness, define greatness, aspire for greatness, work toward greatness and one day attain greatness. But I believe that the first step in this journey is first to perceive that you are capable of great things and the simplest way to come to that realization is to know that the place you reside has, is and will continue to produce a product that is great.
I have stared a small free school magazine that is student driven. The students conduct interviews, write the stories, take the pictures, design the layouts, record video and push all the content through an app they created. Again, cliché, but this magazine is for students, by students, and about students. I hope that I have not taken up too much of your time and hope that you are able to provide me some help in changing the culture and perception of my school and by doing so affecting change in the lives of over 3000 students their families and an entire community. I would like to have the new issue of the magazine my students have created printed at a local print shop, to be given away at our school and surrounding community.
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Samuel Alcime
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Miami, FL