The Future is Bright for Springville Junior High!

This week at Springville Junior High School, certain kids at the school were asked what their thoughts were on their future. Lots of kids don’t know what they’re going to do after graduation. Will they go to college? What will they choose as a career? Have they thought about it at all?

We’re starting off with Seth Rigtrup, a seventh grade boy. After graduation, he says he’ll be somewhere working for money for college. “I haven’t done any planning yet,” he says. When ninth grade comes, he can start! If he could choose any career, he says it would be a doctor or play sports.

Next is Jenny Chappell, a seventh grade girl who loves to play basketball. After graduation, she says she’ll be playing basketball at BYU and be in college. “If I could choose any career besides basketball it would be playing volleyball, a P.E. teacher, or drawing- like doing art,” Jenny says. She doesn’t have any other plans, and hasn’t started to plan it out yet and that’s okay! There’s still a long way to go.

Wally Averett is an eighth grade boy who seems to have his future pretty set. After graduation, he says he’ll be in college. “I wanna have a good life,” he says. Wally wants to be an orthodontist or a dentist when he gets out of college. He hasn’t done any planning yet, but he’ll get there for sure.

Sophie Mendivil, an eighth grade girl says she wants to go to California after graduation to work in the fashion industry. She wants to make clothes for a living. “Careers that I would pick besides fashion would probably be interior design, modeling, or photography,” Sophie says. Besides that, she wants have a family and just be a successful person.

Next is Carter Johnston, a ninth grade boy. In five years, he says he’ll be back from a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. “I’ve kind of prepared for it I guess, seminary counts,” he says. He doesn’t know what career he would like to do yet after he gets back, but he does want to go to college.

Last but definitely not least, is Kennedy Bird. Kennedy is a ninth grade girl who says she sees herself in college with her dog in five years. “I want to be able to live a good life and have a good education,” she says. She has done some planning. The ninth grade counselor here at SJHS met with all of the ninth graders individually to help them figure out their future and what a possible career might be that they’re interested in. Three other careers that she might be interested in are a choir teacher, a humanitarian, or an interior designer. When asked if she had any other plans for her future, she replied, “I’ve always been destined to be a Disney princess, but I don’t know for sure.” That’s always a good choice.