A Parli Pupil & Peer: A Story of Service

A Parli Pupil & Peer: A Story of Service

Megan and I's Visit To Penn's Valley FFA Chapter

A real test of knowledge is not taking an exam or assessment but rather, trying to convey the information to others in an effective manner. Megan and I underwent this test trying to get a group of 13 high school students to be excited about something like parliamentary procedure. As with life, the work paid off eventually.

Upon starting, the students showed little interest , and who would blame them? This stuff is like a second language. Megan went over some parli terms, to test the waters, trying to get their knowledge level. To my surprise, they knew a decent amount about parli, such as what quorum is or how to rise to a question of privilege. SO now it wasn't how to get them to understand what was going on but now it was getting them to care about parli. "Okay, Justin." I said to myself. "If you've got an idea, you better pull it out quick or this may be a flop". I remembered Megan mentioning a few ways committees would be interesting and just like that, I had it. Megan turns the floor over to me and I more or less told the group that in order to do whatever they want, anything, all they had to do was put a plan together for the chapter. How do you get work done for a whole chapter in an effective manner? COMMITTEES!! Penn's Valley didn't have any committees so the group took off quickly to establish goals for committees.

Just like that, 2 parli pupils and peers, actually made a difference by igniting a passion for students. After all, that was the point of this assessment. This service was a real test of knowledge.