According to the United States’ Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the national unemployment rate for the month of March is estimated to be 4.5% give or take. Unfortunately, during the next two months The Taft School’s unemployment will be about 6.5 times as high as the national average, standing at a whopping 29%. Every student at Taft has a role -- roles that come in a myriad of forms and combinations -- and this spring, in the wake of what is essentially the mental departure of the Senior class, roughly 160 of these roles will be vacated, destroyed, and reincarnated. The majority of this complex process of effectively redefining the specific roles of Seniors at Taft is completed during the spring, a spring that is meant to be particularly
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For example, Taft’s Headmonitors are easily the most visible leaders within the Senior class. Headmonitors are good examples of leaders because they often employ their own independent tactics to differentiate themselves within a role that seems to be confined to specific duties and characteristics. Headonitors like Tommy Robertshaw, Vienna Kaylan, and Quentin Harris each embodied completely different leadership styles and ways of connecting with the student body, but they each advocated for what they were passionate about, whether it was theater productions, football, or social change. This diversification and differentiation within a seemingly confined role is also evident in another “common leader”: the captain of a team. For instance, as captains of the Taft Boys Crew Team, Rich Gilland, Jack Torney, and Evan Miller each employed vastly different approaches to connecting and uniting their team. The most beautiful aspect of it, is the fact that no matter how dissonant their leaderships styles were from each other, all of them were successful leaders in my opinion. Furthermore, it isn’t even required to be vocal or particularly assertive to be a model leader. James Lee, a dormitory monitor on HDT 4 last year, used a reserved overtone in his leadership style, but managed to make a lasting impression on virtually every resident of the floor last year. …show more content…
There is always a crevice of Taft that needs a trailblazer to lead it, and that is precisely what defines Junior Spring. Junior Spring is the specific time in our lives when we are free to choose our place within the community. Every one of us is free from societal expectations and the judgements of our peer during this time because every member of our class is in the same process of redefinition. In the end, every single one of us is searching for that particular pigeonhole of influence with which we can each be a vehicle of change within Taft society as Seniors this fall, a pigeonhole that I am genuinely assured each of us will find for ourselves during these puzzling and immensely enigmatic remaining two months of Junior
For example, Taft’s Headmonitors are easily the most visible leaders within the Senior class. Headmonitors are good examples of leaders because they often employ their own independent tactics to differentiate themselves within a role that seems to be confined to specific duties and characteristics. Headonitors like Tommy Robertshaw, Vienna Kaylan, and Quentin Harris each embodied completely different leadership styles and ways of connecting with the student body, but they each advocated for what they were passionate about, whether it was theater productions, football, or social change. This diversification and differentiation within a seemingly confined role is also evident in another “common leader”: the captain of a team. For instance, as captains of the Taft Boys Crew Team, Rich Gilland, Jack Torney, and Evan Miller each employed vastly different approaches to connecting and uniting their team. The most beautiful aspect of it, is the fact that no matter how dissonant their leaderships styles were from each other, all of them were successful leaders in my opinion. Furthermore, it isn’t even required to be vocal or particularly assertive to be a model leader. James Lee, a dormitory monitor on HDT 4 last year, used a reserved overtone in his leadership style, but managed to make a lasting impression on virtually every resident of the floor last year. …show more content…
There is always a crevice of Taft that needs a trailblazer to lead it, and that is precisely what defines Junior Spring. Junior Spring is the specific time in our lives when we are free to choose our place within the community. Every one of us is free from societal expectations and the judgements of our peer during this time because every member of our class is in the same process of redefinition. In the end, every single one of us is searching for that particular pigeonhole of influence with which we can each be a vehicle of change within Taft society as Seniors this fall, a pigeonhole that I am genuinely assured each of us will find for ourselves during these puzzling and immensely enigmatic remaining two months of Junior