Confirmation class in school....well.....that's interesting.

Today in Human Geography we watched videos and then discussed them. We introduced shadows, then Mr. Schick started the discussion. He discussed his opinion on who was going to win, and about an SNL skit where ‘Trump’ and ‘Clinton’ make up and go around and hug random people. Kiana pulled up some statistics, and we discussed those. Unfortunately, Trump is at a steady drop according to the polls, but I can still hang on to the hope that they’re wrong. After that, PBJ/bowling ball girl (The one, the only) Mackenzie Hopkins suggested we watch a video about a man who sued the school system for what he thought they were doing wrong. What was funny about this video is that it reminds of all these teen oriented videos that we watch in Confirmation class in the way that he presented his information. Some of the similarities are that he used lots of analogies, rhymed his sentences (I think?), and paused but spoke loudly. Watch a couple videos like I’m talking about and you’ll get it. After watching the video we had a discussion on what we thought about the video. I agreed with the man, that we should personalize education to fit the student and not the other way around, and improve the way we teach, but there are some things that you can’t get rid of in a traditional school system. It’s good to start kids out in a structured school system, because this helps build the ability to think in a structured format, which is an important thinking skill. Even with creativity, if you can’t focus long enough on a task to complete it (or even start) you’ll get nowhere.