Today, something amazing happened.
And I just had to post.
My good friend came to school today with a petition titled "Friends Against Patch Fischer’s High School Transfer".*
There were 19 signatures before I even knew it existed.
In first period, all of Leadership and most of Eagle Service signed.
Even a few kids that wandered over from Yearbook grabbed a pen.
We had 87 before fourth period.
At one point, we had a line of willing kids, and it wasn’t just eighth graders.
A lot of seventh graders signed. Some sixth, too.
The whole school talked about it, and I had people I hardly knew come up to me and say, “These are my friends. They want to sign, too.”
There were 200 spaces on the petition, less than half of which we thought we could fill.
We had to draw in some extras.
What happened today was incredible. If someone had told me a month ago that we could do this, I’d laugh.
Sure, the petition didn’t have the effect we’d hoped, but still. 201 middle schoolers decide that this was worthwhile. That, despite the fact that they were in different groups, grades, or whatever, they banded together and did something. I know it affected us, at least. We’ll remember this day, even if it didn’t work as planned. I'm proud of what we did. No matter the end result.
Now, more than ever, I feel like anything is possible. Yay.
*the petition title was slightly different, and has been changed to keep locations and names secret.
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