A Persuasive Stance to Convince a Teacher
This paper will portray a persuasive attempt while convincing the school administration to reinstate students’ social activities within the school compound. As a school captain for sports and entertainment, I had a mandate to champion all students. Our school administration had banned dancing competitions, fashion shows, and watching football within the precincts of the institution. The fight occurred after students damaged school property because there emerged opposing groups of students in support of their preferred teams in a grand finale match of the season. They broke window panes, vehicles of the teaching staff and stole from the school’s mess during a fight between them. That fight prompted the administration to ban such gatherings anywhere with the institution.
For all students’ social activities to be reinstated, I proposed that all students had a paid damage fee, which was imposed by the school’s finance auditors. The school should allow the students to use the school’s facilities optimally. I also gave the administration the conviction that for us to be more competitive against other schools in dancing competition and prowess of fashion shows, they should allow us to practice within the school as the only common ground. Moreover, I urged the school administration that it was in the interests of the majority of students to at least do away with the leading cause of the ban (international football watching) and do away with ethnic and interracial competitions. I also asked them to be responsible for nurturing the school’s talents in co-curricular activities.
Nevertheless, my persuasion was not good enough to convince the administrators to reverse their decision. Firstly, administrators said that school could barely afford the costs of bringing on the coaches to nurture talents and paying for their travels. I failed to convince them that the competitions come with prizes in the form of money, and therefore that the students would soon be independent. I was unable to convince them that even the money we had paid as a fine was hefty enough to cover any other uncertainties of students’ behavior.