After my presentation for the group last week I have been contacted and given permission to begin planning for a possible "tracks-approved" piloting of advocacy programming. I foresee a period of time where attaining permission from the principal to operate on school grounds, and interest from teachers, students, and parents will require expert persuasive skill. For such persuasion to smoothly be implemented I'll need the following:
A. Pitch for Youth: (possibly) "We all know what we are against, but what are we for? Are we for health?"
B. Pitch for Principal: (possibly) "It takes a village and sometimes it takes weekends"
C. Pitch for Parents: (possibly) Logic tells us that these young people need additional skills to compete in the educational fields of the future. But this program provides more than skills alone, it also provides an educational motivation not found inside the classroom. With real-world problems and opportunities to be real-world champions, your children will be in prime position to not just learn about their communities but to learn to love working in their communities.
D. Tracks approved curriculum: content of lessons must be applicable to advocacy (education & awareness).
These kinds of outreach will see me touch lives in a whole new way. Whatever sincerity I have will need to be more pure now than ever. I cannot walk falsely into these halls and homes. I must look into eyes of young and old alike and tell them the inconvenient truth about the need for inconvenient heroes; inconvenient champions.
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