Setting goals and making them achievable is the objective of a new weekly program at a Lima City middle school.
It was "Motivation Monday" at Lima West, as 8th graders heard from local pastors. The message is to inspire students to follow their dreams. Each Monday, local pastors will be speaking about positive choices and the importance of an education. School is a learning ground and students need to respect their teachers, their classmates, and themselves.
"There's always three Ps in a person. There's the person that people want you to be like, there's the person that you want to be like, and there's the person that you really are. The first two don't count. It's the last one that counts. The person that you really are, that's who you have to work yourself up to be," explained Pastor Arthur Butler, who spoke at Motivational Monday.
"What we're trying to do here is bring people from the Lima community in to talk to our kids about the importance of education and becoming a productive citizen, you know as they get older, going into high school, and looking forward to college and career readiness is really the ultimate goal that we're trying to instill on our young people here today," said Principal T.J. Winkler, Lima West Middle School.
"I think it's important to know what you have to do, know what to do in life, and I think it's very good that they're speaking to us," commented Shalomn Stout, 8th grader.
"They're telling us basically how to focus in life and make it in life and don't focus on what other people got going on, focus on what you need to do and what you got going on," said Jaouna Allison, 8th grader.
Principal Winkler says he hopes to continue Motivation Monday each week throughout the school year. The program is a partnership with the Black Ministerial Alliance.
