The Perfect School...

In the perfect school I think that it would all be done from home. All the teachers would do is send the assignments via email, or something like that, with directions on what he or she would like us to do. The assignments would all be able to be worked on with adobe acrobat pro (a program that allows you to type into somebody else's document and leave comments)and when we finished all we would have to do is send it back. Along with this concept there would have to be no required amount of "desk hours" and kids would not have to go into school unless they wanted to.

Another thing that I think would be better is that we, the students, would be allowed to chose the partners that we would like to work with to complete an assigned project. Also teachers wouldn't be responsible for making sure that all the students they teach complete the assignments, or are involved in the assignments, that the teacher hands out. The reason I think this is that I believe that it is the students responsibility to try to get all that he or she can get out of school and should be responsible for involving themselves.

The last thing that I think should be different is that we, the students, should not have to stay in class after we finish the assignments/work for that day. Most days I finish my work in class before the class is over and so I have to just sit there and twiddle my thumbs while I wait for the bell to ring. During this time I could be working on assignments given by teachers that require technology and/or the assistance of others that are not in the same class as me. Also this would give students more time to talk to each other and would stop us from talking so much in class.

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I Believe that Positive Choices and Attitudes Make Things Better...

When growing up my mom always told me to make the right choice so that I would be happy. I understood how not doing a bad thing would help, but I didn't understand how not doing some thing good could be bad. For example:
If you are walking down the hall and someone bumps into you, causing you to drop all the stuff in your binder. You could chose to get mad or just think that it was a accident and go on with your day.
The part I didn't understand was how choosing to be mad was not good for you as long as you didn't do anything bad.

The answer to this came to me when I herd a story about an old lady who had cancer, and only three hairs left on her head. When she looked in the mirror she said, "Looks like a braid would be nice today". So she braided her three hairs and had a great day. A couple weeks later, she looked in the mirror and saw that she had only two hairs left. "Well", she said, "looks like a center part would be the best for today". So she parted her two hairs and had a great day. A couple weeks later she looked in the mirror and saw that she had only one hair left. "I guess a pony-tail would be nice today." She said. So she put her one hair into a pony-tail and had a great day. A couple weeks later she looked in the mirror and saw that she had no hair left. "Well", she said, "at least I won't have to spend time on my hair!" So she did nothing to her hair and had a great day.

This part in particular cut me like a knife. Even though she had everything to complain about she chose to be happy and upbeat, and thus she had a great day.

Another story that I really like is about a guy that was happy all the time. One day someone he worked with asked him how he was so happy. He replied saying, "When I wake up in the mourning I ask myself, do I want to have a good day or a bad day. And most of the time I choose to have a good day." A while later, when he was opening up his shop, a guy ran up and shot him. After a little while someone found him and called the doctors. When they were about to operate on him, to get the bullet out of his head, they told him that he probably wouldn't live. He then told then to operate on him as if he would live, and sure enough, he lived. Some time after the surgery, the doctors told him that he should have died in the time that he was on the ground alone and asked him how he survived. He answered by saying, "As I was laying there I asked myself if I chose to live or if I chose to die. I chose to live and so I did".

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