Active FFA Membership Poem (Do you just belong?)

As a teacher, how are you helping your students find a way to engage?

Do you just belong? 

Are you an active member,

the kind that wouldn’t be missed?

Or are you just content

to have your name among the list?

Do you attend the meetings

and mingle with the flock?

Or do you usually stay away

and criticize and knock?

Do you take an active part,

to help and work along?

Or are you satisfied

to be the kind that just belongs?

Do you pitch in, and do you share,

to really make things tick?

Or leave the work to just a few,

that you would call “the clique?”

There’s quite a program scheduled

that we’re sure you’ve heard about,

and we’ll appreciate it if you too,

will help us work things out.

So come to the meetings often,

and help with hand and heart.

Don’t just be a member,

but take an active part.

Think this over, friend,

because you know right from wrong,

Are you an “ACTIVE MEMBER”,

or do you just belong?

[Thank you to Allison Hoover, 2014 Student Teacher, for finding this in the Firebaugh FFA POA.]