Continental Congress and advisory council

History is measured by events taking place at a continual pace. The first being marked by some ones experience, how that particularly measurement of change effected them, and I can say with certainty that even the smallest change in that event can cause huge implications for century’s. For insistence the first Continental Congress was the gathering of desperate but bold colonists of September 1774, some of which were the founding fathers of America. These meetings that took place in secret, hidden away from British power were the small scale gatherings of people united together with one cause. The colonists who met were there despite what British power was trying to control. They stood for freedom and belief that a community of people could be independent from the grip of Britain. This was a small event but it caused a breakthrough for centuries and even now in 2008 it’s developed into the House of Representatives, president of the Unites States, and we the people who now hold the right to vote for our leaders.


PSEC can be compared to the Continental Congress because PSEC is the diversity of people who meet and form the community and unification of people. The Continental Congress was a group of people challenging the ideas of modern day living in that time. PSEC challenges the idea of thinking deeper and to move past the high school normality. With the Continental congress they formulated and thought brighter than what they were aloud and in a since high schools compared to PSEC are crushing young people so much that they don’t speak out, that their opinion and ideas aren’t important, and that unless it’s in the school “curriculum” it’s not something you discuss. The teachers like British rule are always forming an opinion based off family background, wealth, religion, education, or if someone tries to shake things up they automatically label them the rebel and therefore deemed a bad seed. The Continental Congress strived for something equal and freeing, freeing in their beliefs, ideas, and there over all life. At PSEC the people have those rights and freedoms, young people desire to be free from the corrupt system of the public schools and the Continental Congress sought freedom for America which is now known for being the land of the free.

Part of the freedom and growth of PSEC is the right to vote for representatives to present our school, which forms the union and order of PSEC. The advisory council, which is voted on by students and faculty, is a group of cohorts coming together to discuss needs, decisions, rules, and to encourage the growth of PSEC community. The development of the advisory council is well established. I would not tamper with or rearrange the council because it’s the type of student government we need for balanced education. The council provides what public schools lack so why change something that’s worked for so long. Now encouraging development and growth to form a better council is always needed and should be done. Gerda Lerner’s interprets history as something we should learn from, grow from, and should not be repeated in the future. As a PSEC community we strive to grow and challenge our self’s for greatness.