When I was in the seventh grade, my English classes, which were meant to be for gifted students only, I had a teacher who had burned out. He was interested neither in providing material for us to study nor giving lessons on what we were expected to learn. Most days, the sequence of events in English class was this: come in, sit for roll, go to the computer lab and goof around until the class changed. Many fruitful things came from the inevitable boredom that ensued. The Montevallo Counterfeit, for example, was a student-led and distributed newspaper which published falsified reports loosely based on current school happenings, such as the relocation of a beloved student to a different school being explained by alien abduction. Although the majority of the time spent in this class was occupied with an empty mind, a well-needed break in the mundanity came in the form of a field trip with the entirety of the gifted students in my school. We met and, in addition to participating in team building …show more content…
We began to expect a higher standing from ourselves and learned that authorities existed in our city who were excited to hear our suggestions. The eight of us made a decision to meet regularly, and thus was formed what would be forever known as the Montevallo Junior City Council. As twelve and thirteen year olds, we developed a mission statement, bylaws, and sought to make decisions on behalf of the youth of the entire city. Our efforts went toward providing support for young adults, both in and out of school. The first event we hosted was dubbed the City Wide Field Day, and we made arrangements for inflatables and carnival games galore. Through our profits from this event, we were able to donate an entirely new supply of helmets to the baseball team, a bill of nearly eight hundred dollars. In my time as a member of this elite organization, I served in not only a secretarial role, but also as