“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.”(Cesar Chavez) This quote greatly emphasizes that to build a strong community, we first have to look at improving the ambition of not just ourselves, but the well-being of others so that our entire community has the motivation to become a more welcoming and positive society for people not just new to our school, but every person in the community should feel welcome.

I feel that we could easily make our school a much better learning community for younger students because we are a community that consists of many different nationalities and many people may feel left out when they first come to school and it is our job as students that have been here for a longer period of time to make them feel welcome and happy to attend to this school. What does a community mean to you? A community to me is many people of different nationalities and different views are able to come together to create a community where everyone feels welcome no matter where they are from or what language they speak. We all play a role in creating a better community including not only the teachers, but the students themselves. It is our job as students to make people feel welcome and make sure no one is left out by including them in the school community hence our theme for the year “You, Me, Community”.

When I first came to school here, I immediately had the feeling that I was welcome into this community because everyone was very helpful and kind to show me around the campus or to lead me to a certain class. Also, there were many clubs and groups that I was able to join which made it much easier to find good friends which were run by nice teachers that also made you feel welcome. Our school is still a very welcoming community due to the many clubs and groups that are available to us but over the years we may start to to decline in keeping this community intact and it is our job to do so.

Here at our school, we have an eagle honor code that really focuses on being ethical to others as well as global in the terms of not caring about where someone comes from our what language we speak, people of different ethnic groups should be able to come together and still have a welcoming community. To be ethical means that everyone in a large community all thinking of a certain good value that we all should focus on to achieve which is a very good goal to set for all of us because it helps us work together to achieve this certain value. Also, being a global citizen in our community also highly affects the goals that we are striving to achieve because to be global, all of our actions should work towards building our society higher and higher each day by helping others in need or taking action to problems that we have at our school but this is all very achievable if we all are able to focus on a certain goal and focus our good actions upon that goal

I would like to end this speech on a good note in saying that we should all make an effort to work towards are goal of being a more tightly bonded community even though it may be lame at some times, but what really matters, is dreaming of the relief that we can all have a community where everyone is helpful to one another and their is no violence that will ever occur here.