Rachel's Challenge is Wrong

	Rachel's Challenge is very allegorical. Yes, some people think that she did alot of great things, but who would want to follow her example and end up dead? In fact she is alot like Joan of Arc. Both of them tried to do great things, and ended up with bad thing happening to them. Rachel's Challenge did not make our school "never the same". In fact, it has ended up even worse. For instance, the students either were effectively forced to sign or merely convinced by peer pressure. Also, students thought that Rachel's Challenge had come to our school to get rid of bullying because "someone ratted us out." They beat up the kids they suspected to be "tattletails" So much for that
	I missed school the day of the presentation, and so I never saw it. Out of curiousity, I volunteered to help. I was called out of class to the library to listen to a two hour presentation about the groups projects. It sounded like we were going to give up our lives to work for charities my whole life. I give a toy to Toys 4 Tots each year, from my own money, so I do my part. But then I saw something that made me mad. They were doing this whole "new student" thing, which meant that we were supposed to bother a new student by foisting groups on him until he "fit in." Well, guys, I hate to break it to you but some people never do fit in. I haven't. If I were a new student, I'd try to camoflage right away so people would leave me alone. What if the new student doesn't want to be bothered? Well, according to this, "too bad, because you're going to fit in so everyone will be happy>" NOT EVERYONE IS HAPPY!!! There is sadness in the world. Get it and take it or get out. It's time people stopped trying to always be happy and just sucked it up and got used to it! Not everyone gets what they want, and if they do, its because they made themselves so. Rachel's Challenge did not work, and is merely a showcase of today's misleading advertising and lies! Think! We were only shown a few schools where this program made a "difference," for want of a better term. You didn't show us even one school where it did not work out. This is what companies do, taking just one person they made happy, and make it sound like this happened to everyone! And anyways, most of us won't amount to anything anyhow. After all, most of us won't even survive much longer. GLobal warming, habitat destruction, natural disasters- evrything. Its a wonder there is still animals and flowers. Humans are an invasive species, just like kudzu. We infect wherever we go, and ruin it.
	As for the "don't eliminate cliques, just have them all on 'level ground'," that is communism! That makes it so even if "Brave Bob" makes a thousand dollars, he must give half of it, his hard work, to "Joe Slacker". Without popular kids, a middle class, and unpopular kids, social structures fall apart. Those who do not work hard for their position often cannot handle the responsibility, and everyone suffers! This is also the problem with student government. Kids can't handle responsibility! I should know! I'm a kid! Kids are trusted way too much now. If kids don't work hard for responsibilties, they will be overwhelmed and come crashing down! Let life happen! You can't fix everything. Kids are powerless! One kid is insignificant. To prove it, have you seen Rachel's Challenge on national news?
	 I am glad I did not sign the banner, because I did not accept Rachel's Challenge. Neither did the other students, but they did sign it only because they were "going with the flow" Why sign something you don't believe in? My name is not on the giant banner hanging in the cafeteria, and never will be, unless someone forged my name, like what happened to some people I know. And then so I should be nice to them, because I "might just start a chain reaction?"