Student Oath

One of the tasks given to the Compass Academy students at the beginning of the school year was to create a student oath or creed. This is not a simple process. Each day during the first two weeks of school, at least one period was spent in creating their oath.

The first few days were spent in group discussions about the importance of having goals or principals to use as benchmarks for measuring our success as students. Other Oaths and Creeds were read and examined. The Athenian Oath, The Boy Scout Oath and Law, Essays by Plato and Aristotle, and Charge of the Light Brigade were some of the written words examined.

Brains packed with knowledge, the students broke into small groups to start creating potential oaths. Drafts were read and shared. Merging of drafts led to a functional oath. The unified draft went through another week of heated debate. Motions were made. The importance of each word was discussed. Phrasing was debated. Votes were taken and the oath was sent back to the writers for further revision. It was an arduous process.

The process ended with a student meeting in which a unanimous vote was made to ratify the Student Oath for the 2016/2017 school year. Student's signed the new document and committed to try there best to meet the ideals set forth in their new oath.