1) Come up with a composite description of the "ideal school" experience.
2) Respond to this "ideal school" composite that you have created. Do you agree with it? Disagree with it? Why or why not?
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Looking back at the blogs my class mates have written they all seem similar to each other. For example the blogs of Caleb Rosenquist gave a great example of how other subject that kids are interested in are deemed not as important and not worth as much credit. Teenagers want to have fun while learning and there would definitely be a decrease of complaints. The subject is not whats hard it is the way that it is taught that confuses people. An example of a students confusion is all teachers have different ways of teaching. You may have a class with a good teacher and you learn alot but your next period teacher is not so good so you obviously are failing that class. I dont think its the children who want to fail its the teachers who fail them.
ReplyDeleteAll the ideal schools are schools that dont have any distractions, tests, quizzes,long school days exc. This is all that we want in order for what we belive would teach us better.
Over the blogs that I have seen from the other classmates, I’ve learned that not all students want to have certain subjects. Some of those subjects are chemistry and math. I agree with them because in the future we won’t have any use of chemistry and we won’t have any use of the math they taught us since 7th grade. I understand learning addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, but I don’t get the fact that we learn about triangles, angles, chemistry equations and chemistry words. The ideal school for me is taking out math and chemistry and putting in daily life subjects like cooking. Cooking is fun, delicious, and you use it when you have a house of your own when you get older. Then I’ll replace chemistry with study halls so students have time to work on their homework so when they go home they don’t have to worry about all the pieces they have do accomplish. Lots of students play a sport and when they get home they’re exhausted and they don’t feel like doing work so if I were to throw in more study halls then students would complete their work more often.
ReplyDeleteTony Cairone
Having a perfect school entitles many different things, but at the same time a perfect school is a matter of personal opinion, so in reality, there may never be a perfect school. Though, a school could be constructed upon the majority of students’ opinions in order to create a well-rounded learning environment. These three students are some of few opinions that speak about a perfect school, some good, some bad. (In my opinion)
ReplyDeleteMya Lofton describes her ideal school were the students should only take courses that he or she will require to pursue their career. Tony Cairone believes that a better school would involve more interaction with the learning criteria, in order to motivate and engage each student. On the other hand, Nadirah explains how her perfect school would be a place where the students are catered, and given more flexibility, e.g. free to play music during class, not being disciplined when late, no homework, and even being paid to come to school.
These are all great opinions that touch many different aspects of the perfect ideal school. I feel as though Mya has a great point, but at the same time I am not sure if she understands the importance of having a basic knowledge of things like science, and many other courses. Either way, I do agree that schools need to have a low base criteria line; to the point where a student knows and understands what their goal in life is, so that they may take only the courses that are required for their career. I agree with Tony a lot; a majority of students in school feel bored and unmotivated to do work. But by allowing interactive teachings like games, the learning experience can feel less harsh, and more appealing. This all goes within bounds and reason though, there is a fine line that defines school time from play time, and even though a medium of the two can create a great environment for fun, motivational learning, having more “fun” can lead to a very misleading learning experience. Then there is Nadirah’s ideal school, I myself think it’s ridiculous. First of all, the government spends about $10,000 a year on the average public school student, so why would they pay us to do the work, when they are already doing most of it. But here is the main problem I see with Nadirah’s view, school is about learning, and building a foundation for yourself, but more importantly, it teaches students how to adapt to the situations they may face during life. By taking away things like homework, students would loose all their work ethic, and it would encourage procrastination. Not only that, not being disciplined when late, or from any other misconduct is rewarding bad behavior. Being late to anything is not a desirable habit, and to act as though students shouldn’t be disciplined for it is ridiculous. Now, there are of course exceptions for when and why someone may be late, but being late for the sake of “being” late is unacceptable. And by not recognizing it as a problem is a bigger problem itself.
- Caleb Rosenquist
Ok first of all I agree with a lot of what Freddie had said in his reply to why some subject like math and science is not pointless but most kids when they get out of school would not choose those occupations that involves school related not that I’m saying all kids don’t want to go that path but it just seems like not a big deal to most kids that work on it. I also agree with what Tony said in his reply which is that there should be fun class activates that once again relates to are hobbies like I remember in 4th grade we would have basketball for like spelling which everyone had a good time I just think we should have something similar to that idea. The last thing I also agree with is Lisa’s statement towards having teachers approach the whole class and not having it explain well or clearly too which honestly why kids just have trouble in school most of the time which I don’t think is fair cause things in class that we are learning are getting harder and more complicated I just think teachers should put more time in harder subjects not just skim though it. Pretty much the ideal school in are minds are to have more fun and get to learn the stuff that we mostly enjoy getting out of and to learn new things but with more thought being put in it.
ReplyDeletestephen pham
After reading other peoples blogs on the school problem, most people basically had the same general idea of the problems with the school system and how we could make it better. A lot of people said we should be able to take the classes that we are only interested in and not have to take all the other unnecessary classes that we are forced to take. I agree with this because I also feel like some classes are just a waste of time if we are never going to use them after we graduate. People also said that after last year math has just become pointless because most of the stuff in calculus and algebra 2 we will never use. I sort of agree with this statement but at the same time I do feel it is important to finish out math all the up until you graduate especially if you are looking to become like an engineer or architect. Also, people said to make the school system better they would have better classes to take and have the option to not take classes that you are not interested in. I also agree with this because I think it would overall make school more enjoyable and less of a pain.
ReplyDeleteJon Kelly
Through three blogs I found that most students think they should be only be taking Math English, World CIV, and Chemistry should be optional. They also feel that it should not be mandatory that you take gym and other electives to pass your grade. Electives should be something you take that interest you not something that you have to do. All three blogs said that teachers need have more creativity when teaching instead of just going through units two weeks at a time and instead of having test all the time we have discussions and projects that expresses our creativity. The blogs also said that school shouldn’t be open so early and after doing are four main courses we should be able to leave the school. The school should also be less strict on things such as iPods and cell phones, students say that they should allow it in study hall, the hallways, and the lunchrooms. This is ideal school that three blogs have shown me. I agreed with some of the statements that were made in the blog. I agree that gym and electives should be optional and not mandatory. We should also have the choice of doing electives and if we decide not to do it shouldn’t effect whether we graduate or not. I don’t agree with school starting late I rather just get it done and get out of early. I also agree we should be allowed to use our cell phones and iPods during study hall and lunch, but I don’t think we should use it in the hallway.
ReplyDeleteMya Lofton