High School Persuasive Speech

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302,400 minutes. That is the estimate of how many minutes we have spent in Anderson High School preparing for our future. Now, This number doesn’t count the afternoons sacrificed by our Redskin athletes. It does not count the late nights spent by our performing arts students nor does it include the amount of time we have spent dedicating our lives to our studies and various extracurriculars. The amount of papers recycled, tears shed and life-long friendships created are all numbers I wish I could calculate but I cannot. I mention this because as we move on to the next point of our lives, the colleges and schools we have been accepted to have looked at our high school career as a set of numbers. GPA, SAT, ACT, OGT, AP and other acronyms have

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