Persuasive Speech For Middle School

Theodore Roosevelt once said, “a man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a collage education he may steal the whole rail road.” Even though we have a while to get a collage education, we’ve made it here, to the end of 8th grade. Just like a rail road the train has to be set on a good track, just like our education. So far for this 8th grade class our tracks have been fantastic ever since we first started our journey.

Our first stop was at kindergarten, where we thought school was just a place your parents dropped you off to get you out of their hair; which, I still believe. We weren’t informed that every year the school work got harder, that there where no more letters to color in, or numbers you could count on our fingers, or even that some of the teachers got meaner, but through all of that we came along the best nail in the track, which is best friends.

In elementary school you counted someone as your friend if you shared crayons with them, but now we share secrets, but who knows we still share crayons to throw at each other. We may not have grown up in the inside but on
Its when you had to start working for your grades. Its when we meet kids from the other elementary schools, whish started new friendships to form. I’ve noticed that this class of 8th graders have been close, sort of like a family, and yes there’s always that one in the family that’s trouble maker but they still fit in. most of us took an effort to know everyone, and not let someone be caboose on the train. Of course, were not old enough to have too much memories but we’ve had a lot and the track we had to take to get here, I would not trade for