SSS

“ I have been asked what I mean by ‘word of honor.’ I will tell you: Place me behind prison walls-walls of stone ever so high , ever so thick , reaching ever so far into the ground- there is a possibility that in some way or another I might be able to escape; but stand by me on the floor and draw chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No, never! I’d die first.” by- Karl G. Maeser

This statement is telling us how we must keep the word of honor meaning that if we say something we have to do it. A way you can relate to this is when you make promises you have to keep them you don’t necessarily die but you do get bad consequences from breaking those promises. Ctr   is one of the circles of honor because when we are in the ctr path then we will for sure have a great education and a successful life. If we were to try to get out of the ctr circle then we will face bad consequences. For example we will face jail, we will fall into drugs, and our whole life would fall apart than how we had it. I think that what it means “I’ll die first,” is that we will face harder life decisions and if we aren’t in the ctr path then we will mostly likely get lost with life and have nowhere to go.

            Student Success Statement

                “When you tell one lie, it leads to another”  by Paul Hatch

Lies are bad friends to have or to make. Sometimes we lie only once but whenever we lie once then we keep lying to protect ourselves. We are humans and yeah we make mistakes all the time but we don’t have to lie because it makes us look very bad. For example, we lie when we say we have been at school to finish a project. When our parents ask us again we say we took even longer because the teacher took forever to bring the supplies. That is when we decide to keep lying and we just build sandwich  made of lies. We may sometimes feel the urge to lie but we don’t think about it we just do it. Everything we do has consequences to our actions whether it is good or bad.  It really doesn’t matter what type of lie it was small or big lies will always be lies and they are known as bad. When one person lies after they get caught then everyone knows who they really are and people will dislike them.  Sometimes we believe it is okay to lie to not hurt someone’s feelings but the truth is that we shouldn’t lie because the truth always comes out eventually.  There are no excuses when it comes to lying because are bad and wrong people think that lies will never backfire but sometimes they do. We have to speak the truth because if we are always lying then no one will want to be near us or talk to us. For example: the boy who cried wolf he always kept lying and he never set boundaries on his lies he said one lie after the other. So the day there was an actual situation no one believed him that is why we have to always speak the truth and not lie because when we do everything will fall apart for us. We have ,any situations in which we just want to lie but we will always  pay the price of our lies.

                    A Sting From a Scorpion

We must always choose the right because we don’t know the consequences we will get for choosing the wrong. A little kid was told to wear shoes because in the desert there are many animals/insects they are exposed to. He thought about but said,” I’m just going for a little while no need to wear shoes there sandals will be good enough.” Sadly the sandals weren’t good enough the child ended up getting stung by a scorpion. The pain and sorrow he felt at that moment were the consequences he received because he chose the wrong. Even if we are told something simple we must obey it because there are consequences. As Mark Twain stated we must always do the right thing so we can be fine healthy and not in pain like that poor little kid. That day he learned a very valuable lesson to always do the right thing at that moment and rebel to what his parents told him. It is better if we choose now to do the right things than doing it later on when something bad has happened to us. We may think oh we are okay nothing bad will happen to us but in reality it isn’t for sure that we will be okay if we don’t choose the right.