- Very quiet person
- A bit plain maybe
- Someone no one really notices
These are stereotypes that everyone thinks of when they think of Head Pupils and because of this they even vote for a person that fits this stereotype without them even realising it and they don’t see the bigger picture of ‘will they actually be any good at head boy’. Who said that you have to be a:
- Straight A student
- Good at school
And all the rest of them. And to be honest I don’t know who came up them. But all I know is they are all wrong. When I thought “yeah head boy, I wouldn’t mind being that” I thought about that list. I went through the list and asked myself am I a:
- Straight A student... well maybe, hopefully
- Good at school... yeah I’m not bad I try my hardest I suppose which is all I can do
- Very quiet person... no not at all
- A bit plain maybe... Nope I’m not plain
So I don't really fit do I? So it’s not going well so far. But then I realised just because I might not fit the Head Boy personality perfectly and am not a geek or one of them pointless stereotypes doesn’t mean I couldn’t do the job better than all the other people. Actually thinking back now apart from last year’s head pupils I don’t think I actually ever spoke to a Head Pupil mainly because I didn’t know who they were because I never really noticed or knew them very well. I'm not saying they did a bad job but I think it would be better to have someone that everyone in this school recognises and is able to talk to. You need to be someone that people can see as a role model and this doesn’t mean someone that is academically perfect because not everyone can achieve this. People will take the head boy with a pinch of salt if they are a bit weird, all they need to be is hard working and do the best of their ability. Seen as though we are in a bilingual school you need someone that is fluent in welsh which I am and if you look at lots of the other candidates for head boy not many of them are fluent, actually I doubt any of them are so that’s basically a ¼ to ½ of parents and people in this school that they can't talk to but are still suppose to be representing, so that’s not really good is it? Yes fair enough representing for a school sports team is not bad but anyone can get into that even I got into the school rugby team. I mean come on me a rugby player, hardly. I mean something that really represents this school, something that has won this school money and publicity more than anything I can think of this year and that is the Young Consumers Year 12 team which won the welsh finals and which I captained which shows leadership.
I’m someone that will voice their opinions and that of others and you can’t really say I don't do that I have done that here. Sometimes you have to offend people to make a change and politics is not always nice.
So let’s bring it to an end because you’re getting bored and to be honest there is something really good on the TV that I want to watch and can't watch it if I'm sat by my PC still writing this speech so I will bring it to a close.
I see myself as a pritty normal guy. Not too geeky, not weird and not a waste of space. Most people in this room are normal people. So seen as though normality is the majority why not vote for someone that can represent you all and this school. Let’s get out of the habit of this stereotyping people for head boy and vote for someone that everyone can talk to, someone normal, basically someone like me.
