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Would you rather be an Academy Award/Noble Prize winner, or Toilet Scrubber of the Month? If you said the former, check out this video on leadership in class. If you said the latter, it might be time to buy stock in rubber gloves...good luck.

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00:03

Leadership in class... a la Shmoop.

00:07

When we hear the word “leadership” in conjunction with anything school related, [School boy stood with Barak Obama]

00:11

we tend to think of that one kid in gym who regularly confused your school's low-budget

00:16

gymnasium with an NBA court. [School kids playing basketball]

00:18

The sound of dribbling still gives us panic attacks…

00:21

But leadership in the classroom... well, that’s a lot less terrifying. [Man in a suit at the front of the classroom]

00:24

And we know what you're thinking…you'd probably rather be the psychopathic pseudo-professional

00:29

B-baller than the dreaded teacher's pet. [Dog with a mans face by the teacher's side]

00:32

But guess what? Leadership in class doesn’t mean being just the teacher’s pet.

00:36

What it does mean is helping others when they're having trouble in class.

00:42

It means leading by example.

00:44

And what does that mean?

00:45

Well, it means listening to your teacher when she tells you to stop talking and wonders [Teacher telling students to stop talking]

00:49

for the ten thousandth time why she thought teaching would be a fun career…

00:53

Only forty more years until retirement, Teach… Yeah good luck and maybe your pension will still be there..[Old people in a retirement home]

00:59

It also means volunteering the right answer, when everyone else in class is desperately

01:03

avoiding eye contact.

01:04

And it means knowing how to communicate with your peers, and knowing how to manage conflict [Student breaking up a fight between two other students]

01:08

when it arises.

01:09

Like that time this happened… [Boxer hits a student in a boxing ring]

01:12

Good communication is key. Otherwise, the weird kid who thinks he's a dog might eat

01:17

your homework again.

01:18

It's cute the first time, not so much the seventeenth. [A kid eating their homework]

01:21

But maybe that still sounds pretty pathetic to you. After all, it’s not like the way you

01:26

act in a high school classroom will have any effect on your future, right?

01:30

Eh…not so fast. Let’s fast-forward fifteen years and take a look at two of your classmates, [Older students working together at a company]

01:35

Johnny and Tommy.

01:37

Johnny was always lounging in the back row, cracking jokes and disrupting class. But hey,

01:41

big deal. Everyone loved Johnny. He was decidedly cool. [Students praising Jonny in class]

01:45

Something Tommy was not. Tommy worked hard in group projects, helped his classmates when

01:49

they struggled, knew how to communicate what needed to get done, and knew how to work well [Tommy working with other classmates]

01:52

with his peers.

01:53

And he only brought the teacher cookies one time, and it was her birthday….[Tommy gives the teacher a plate of cookies]

01:57

Anyway. Fast-forwarding time.

01:58

See this rich and handsome businessman?

02:01

And this unemployed, lazy shmuck?

02:04

Now which one do you think ended up being Tommy, and which one ended up being Johnny? [Jonny looking sad in his home]

02:08

Yup. Believe it or not, being a class leader typically leads to better school results,

02:13

which in turn leads to better opportunities, jobs, and a heftier paycheck every month. [Tommy looking happy with his pay check]

02:17

Remember, the cool kids in high school end up taking tickets

02:21

in the movie theater for their summer job that lasts 43 years.

02:25

No promises about the whole handsome bit, though. We can't guarantee that.

02:28

So while Tommy is vacationing on his private island with his family after winning a Nobel [Tommy on an island with his family]

02:32

Prize, an Academy Award, and being reelected as President of the United States…

02:36

Johnny is…still taking theater tickets.

02:39

But hey, Johnny is winning plenty of awards, too.

02:41

It takes a special man to win “Toilet Scrubber of the Month.” [Tommy in a tuxedo scrubbing toilets]

02:44

Keep em comein’, Cool Johnny. You're pretty cool.

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