Out of Date Education

There are people like myself who have a hard time leaning by just sitting in a classroom all day. Sadly this is the only way we are being taught. There are a few school districts like the one my mom works at that has a special program for kids who have trouble learning in a classroom. This program is called connections it is a project-based learning program. Instead of the students learning from a book they will do projects based on whatever subject they are studying. For example one of my mom’s students loved manga instead of writing a paper about manga and its history she created a costume of one of her favorite characters and presented that to the class. There is a program at my high school that I was a part of called MaST. This program has an aquarium and planetarium. Being in MaST meant you had to learn all about the stars and about the different fish that were in the aquarium. Every week 3^rd or 4^th graders would visit and we would teach them about the stars and the sea. Mast is a student run program and because of this I’ve learned more about responsibility and corporation, which we will help in the workplace, than in any other class.