Good evening students, faculty, staff, and family members. I would like to start off by thanking Ms. Rojas and Current NJHS members for all their hard work in putting together this year’s National Junior Honor Society Induction Ceremony. I could not be more honored and humbled for the opportunity to speak to an amazing group of young adults. Tonight we recognize our Sanchez Middle School students for all their hard work they have put forth into becoming a member of such a prestigious society. We also celebrate your families for the sacrifices they have made to help you achieve your goals.
As I thought about what message I could possibly convey to you all what first came to my mind was that you all sitting here have no idea and you couldn’t…show more content… Whether it was a math teacher that may have said don’t pursue anything in math because you’re not good at it or our own worst critic…. ourselves that say nope their right it’s too hard. Or when we may have found something challenging and didn’t get it right the first time so we just gave up. I want to remind you that for those that say you can’t there are those that believe in you and say that you can. I recall when I decided to give teaching a try, I applied but never got a call to interview many times because well….I lacked the experience and did not have a degree in education. I eventually landed the opportunity when Mr. Sherwood an assistant principal at Ernesto Serna gave me a chance. Even when a lab experiment went terribly wrong during intersession tutoring, when the middle school hallway filled with blue smoke and the school was evacuated due to the fire alarms going off….he still believed I’d be a good science teacher. Then there was Ms. Ayala, she approached me with the idea of starting a drumline here at Sanchez Middle and thought I should teach it. My initial response was no. I had reasons…or should I say doubts about my abilities to do what she had requested…doubts such as playing in a drumline and teaching it are two different things. That I was not very good at reading music and much less have no idea how to teach it…it just wouldn’t work out. She still
