Everyone knows the importance of Associated Student Body,
otherwise known as ASB. Without ASB, Cerritos High School could not function properly. ASB is something that is so important in this modern day society, where the school system has successfully created a system that is based on excluding individuals from large projects. The discrimination is something that can be tasted, seeing how the people who are voted in elections from the student body are given the gift of excitement and accomplishment, as they have achieved a large goal from their high school career, just to be kicked out of power before being able to make changes simply for some minor mistakes that they made years ago. This is just one of the reasons why ASB is such a fair and equal system, as they are extremely logical and understand that people should never make mistakes, and never give students the opportunities to learn from those mistakes, as mistakes are just the absolute end of the world. These students are always held accountable, even if these minor mistakes are made from freshmen year.
This concept doesnt always apply though, considering that if a
student is favored, these mistakes are ignored with special exceptions. This is important, seeing as favoritism is essential in a school, and in life as a whole. ASB provides life skills that all students should develop, one of these being labor work assigned by the teachers who run this extra circular program. Listening without thinking is crucial to the development of our student body as well, and learning to take orders from your superior is essential to do well in life. Another thing that ASB contributes to is that it helps shape the ASB students into individuals who have high self esteem, proving themselves better than other individuals. This is essential in letting other people know how they are not as successful as others, which is an extremely healthy mentality to enter adult life with. Seeing how ASB is a private group of people, and how they plan events for the student body by keeping secrets from the entire student body in order to plan these events, ASB members are presented with the essential life skills such as secrecy and delusion. With the exposure of these events, seeing how it can kill the excitement, the expulsion of other students in this committee is essential in showing how serious ASB is and how ASB should be a secret committee now matter what, as they cannot stress the importance of artifice enough.
Because of these arguments and many more, it is safe to say that
ASB is one of the most important factors of Cerritos High school, as the school would never be able to function without it. Teaching students about superiority and blindly thinking, and that mistakes are unacceptable, I believe that ASB should continue exactly the way it is, and that it is completely flawless. - Sarah Lee ASB Critic, Cerritos High School