Homeroom Reform Essay

P'Jay, Andrew, and I wrote this for the KNSD Homeroom Reform Essay Contest.

I think SPA is a good school because there’s a series of sports that gives us chances in life such as Andrew Pascualgoing to college, playing basketball or any sport while you get there. I know most foster kids don’t make it in life but I know there’s a possible way to succeed in life. I love basketball, maybe when I get a chance I’ll be in the NCAA. There are positive goals, then there are negative goals. It all depends on how you achieve this goal. Making pointless goals will get you “nowhere.” That’s probably one out of many reasons kids drop out of high school.Now when you fall from where you became successful, you process positive changes that shapes your future.SPA is a chance of being a successful student that is if you do what is need to be done and then strive and get to the greatest advantage, and that advantage is getting a scholarship and proceeding through out your future. Accomplish a dream that you really want throughout your life whether it’ll be a professional basketball player, or doing something you enjoy.

We are writing an essay to let people know about SPA and what we need here and how life here at SPA is. San Pasqual Academy is a home for foster youth and the kids came here for schooling and a home. They have either come from a bad environment r this is just a temporary placement till the court knows what to do. Either way they still live here and need a family. This facility gives us foster youth a chance to get into college. According to statistics foster youth are less likely to make it into college or get a home and keep a job. There are various sports teams her at SPA but we would like another basketball gym, specifically an outside one. Although this is a foster youth facility we do follow the rules as though we are a normal high school. Our GPA’s have to be at a certain level to play our sports. We also have curfew here depending on your grades you can either come in earlier or stay out later but no later than 10:00 on the weekends and 9:00 during the school week. This awesome facility has been opened since 2001, and we really love it here. We would love it more if we had an outside basketball court.

Why does SPA need funding? Spa needs this funding to help us and stay in shape. That statement goes right back to us needing an outside basketball court. This could really help us stay away from the drama and drugs. We would have two gyms to keep the kids that like inside gyms and volleyball inside. Think about it on a day where everyone wants to go to the gym and it gets way too hot, this happens all the time then we have students passing out on the floor. We could even use the money to build another gym period for the kids that like other sports we could start a new sport here. I like gymnastics and so does a few other kids but we do not have that here or cheer leading, but we really want it. This prize could really be our chance to make our home a better place for us.

We as students need an outdoor basketball gym to develop our stamina so when sports come we can participate in sport activities such as basketball, soccer, football, track, and baseball. These sports would keep us active and healthy. Plus when we join a team, it’ll be no problem running back and fourth. Conditioning takes a major part in sport activities, making sure you breathe properly and focusing on movements during games. Having a prize would be good for our school, having kids get involved in sports they like instead of football, and basketball. Well how are we going to participate in sport activities if we get lower GPA lower than a 2.0

Our contributions to these hopes that all ready been made is joining contests just like this one. We are writing these to show how we need things the other kids have. It would be helpful if we had a other basketball court for us. Taking our hope publicity to ask Jammer to get us a other basketball court. So people will stay study and pay attention. In class and the wont have much kick out.