President of the Whole Sixth Grade by Sherri Winston

So, as you can see, I had A LOT riding on this trip. MOST IMPORTANT: Getting out of town would give me much-needed time with my girls!!! The winning speech would earn $1,000 for that school.ĥ. All of the class presidents had to give a speech. Our school had participated in this trip for twenty years and NO WAY would I be the first president of the whole sixth grade who FAILED. (I WAS ALREADY A BUSINESSWOMAN! And this could help me make my business even BIGGER!)ģ.

The magazine was doing workshops on leadership skills for business success, and offering tips for kids who wanted to start their own businesses. The most important magazine in the whole wide world, Executive, Jr., was going to be at the conference. We were going to compete with all the other schools to show how much we knew.Ģ. TO WIN! Each year, the leadership conference has a theme based on government-this year's theme was ancient Rome. And I didn't just want us to go-we had to go to D.C.ġ. Now it was up to me to turn my classmates into a lean, mean fund-raising machine, otherwise our big trip was not going to happen. But somehow, despite about seventy-five of us paying our deposits the first week of school, our class was still twenty-five hundred dollars short. See, every sixth grader at Blueberry Hills Middle School learned about THE BIG class trip to D.C. What mattered was getting the job done.Īnd the idea of failing started giving me nightmares. It didn't matter whether or not you were popular.

And I was one of the few kids who was shorter than him.Īnyway, being president of the whole sixth grade was an important job. I think my only qualification is that I looked least likely to set a fire in the trash can. Galafinkis tap me on the shoulder and ask me to stay after class and fill out some paperwork. In sixth grade? Yeah, 'running' for class president meant having Mr. Win or lose, you knew it meant something-it mattered. When we voted for class president in fifth grade, it was a big BIG deal. The truth is, getting chosen as class president in middle school was NOTHING like it was in elementary. At least, you would've been-before everything that happened. If you are thinking that being class president means I'm popular, you're wrong.

President of the Whole Sixth Grade by Sherri Winston