“Adversity is the forge upon which
teams are made….”
By Tommie Saylor
Kennedy High School Principal
It is easy to demonstrate good
character, be polite, hopeful and positive when things are going well. It’s
easy when everything is “going your way.”
But when times are hard, when the
events of the day, week or even the month are making you feel as if a target
has been placed on your back, this is when true character is revealed.
It is not how you behave and what you
say when times are good that tells me about who you are, it is what you say and
how you behave when time are bad that gives me a glimpse at your true self.
With this being said, I must commend
the entire staff at John F. Kennedy High School for persevering through some
hard times this week. When our communication system went down, a system
that we have come to rely on so heavily that in its absence our productivity bottoms
out, we continued on without fail.
To conduct a full orientation (both
freshman and the entire student body) on the same day is extreme enough, but to
do so without our precious phone and computer Internet access, seemed
insurmountable.
Yet, I heard not a word of complaint,
only possible solutions. And work around it we did! The result was the
one-day orientation was a huge success. This success can directly be
contributed to those who made the plans, set up the equipment, and manned the
tables.
In short, the success was vested in
the efforts of those who served (and on a day that the rest of the district had
off from work). Many of those who served arrived at the school as early as 6 a.m.
and stayed until after 4 p.m. – and then went to the varsity football game at Carlson
that did not end until almost 10!
Don’t ever let someone question the
commitment the staff of Kennedy High School has for its students.
Remember, their future is in our
hands. Making Kennedy the school of choice. Excellence by design.
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