My Dream School

                                             

The dream school

When would you ever think of school as paradise? Then again what is paradise?

Paradise is a place of the “higher up”, a place that is relaxing and magical. Why not

make school a place of paradise for people to look forward to. Walking into a “school”

where it is always nice and warm, has a beautiful landscape with palm trees hanging

giving you shade to sit under and read. Hearing birds chirp flying from tree to tree.  As

Samira states in The Passion Project, “Community college is technically one of the

avenues where you are able to explore. With this being said Community college should

be the least stress school to attend sense this it the route we should be able to

experiment to see what makes us happy. We all enjoy being at a place where it is

relaxing and stress free. Instead of students dreading of the thought to go to school, we

can make school as an outlet to get away from everything else. When students look

forward to going to school they will make more of effort to always be at class and never

miss a day. They will also want to spend more time at school such as taking the time to

study and interact with others. With this everyone will have a better outcome with

grades and pursuing their passion and careers that they dream to achieve. Being in an

atmosphere that is relaxing, joyful, enjoyable, and warming is a perfect place to be

when you are trying to accomplish what you love to do.


Imagine being at a school where there is open space to clear your mind, glass

walls so you do not feel confined within the walls and everything that you can possibly

need to be right there on campus. There will be all types of food on campus and it will

be for free. There will be free on campus housing and the option of off house family

housing if you have a family and it will also be free. Coming to this paradise dream

school you will have no need to have to work. If you want to work that is an option up to

you but there it will not be necessary. Everything regarding school will be open 24 hours

to accommodate everyone. There will be transportation available if you want to visit

your family, friends or to just go on an adventure. The on campus housing will be

extremely elegant and the design will be of a tall skyscraper, holding of 50 stories. There

will be an on campus gym with a pool and Jacuzzi and a spa to continue to relax. For

people who like to get pampered there will be nail salons available as well as hair salons

and barbers. School should be a place where people love to be so why not have

everything you love on campus for you. There will be a petting zoo on campus as well.

Some people find joy and peace with being with animals so why not have every option

possible to accommodate everyone on campus. The more that you are less stressed and

more focused on what you love to do and you know the steps to accomplish your

dreams the more successful you will be. You will be able to absorb and retain more

when you are less stressed because you can have your mind focused on one thing

instead of your mind constantly wondering around regarding other stuff. With the

luxury of not having to work you will be able to fully focus on school instead of worrying

about working so much to be able to pay for bills. The whole goal of this school is to be

stress free, money plays a major part of stress for people.

When we were all younger in grade school we would be excited to go on field

trips. The most exciting thing about it is that we would be able to get out of the

classroom and be able to go somewhere else that to be at school. We would go to see a

play or to a museum. Everything is still educational but it is not held within a classroom.

Why not make school like a field trip everyday when you’re at school. The best and most

effective way students learn is when they are having fun. When getting reading for

exams the class can have a game of jeopardy. The main concept is to make school fun.

One of my personal school subjects that are the least interesting to me would have to

be history. I am not sure if it’s the actual concept about history or its how the course is

being taught. Field trips would definitely be a requirement for the history classes. Who

wouldn’t want to actually go to the Great Wall of China and learn about it there rather

than reading a book. Going to Big Ben or the Eiffel tower would be of what some

students dream about doing. History is always more interesting to be educated about

when you are there and reliving what went on in the past. With having all of these extra

activities with the class make them even more appealing to students to have to desire

to learn.


When students complete school I want them to feel like they got everything

possible out of school. My main concern is that when people feel like they wasted their

time with going to school. As Ray states, “If a teacher can be motivational we can feel

successful even after failing”. With this being said, if the teacher is passionate about

teaching and love to help their students they will be able to make their students be able

to take every good and bad situation into a learning experience. When you “fail” at

something it does not necessarily intend that you are a failure or was not successful at

attempting it, but it simply indicates that you are suppose to redo it or try to attempt it

at a different angle because you are missing something that you are suppose to be

getting out of it. When students attend my dream school I want them to feel as if all the

time they invested was well worth it. The dream school is a place where your dreams

become your reality. I want this school to be a school that everyone would love to

attend and once they get there that they would never want to leave. Everyone at the

school will be looked at as an equal. There will not be a division of classes between the

“gifted” students and the regular students. Everyone is in the same school and put in

the work to get where they are now therefore not one person is better than the other.

Schools tend to divide themselves by nationality, intelligence, community and goals.

Teachers and students should have more of an influence on the schools instead of

the school board. How our school system is set up has everyone separated. It can be

from major or from the “smart” classes and the not so gifted. What the teachers and

students can do differently is to become a whole instead of classifying everyone into

different groups. Schools can get more involved with the communities and just by that

and will bring everyone together.


Since students are the ones who are investing their time and money into their

education they should definitely play a major role in the school. As Jeff Bliss states “ If

you would just get up and teach them instead of handing them a fricken packet”. There

are plenty of teachers that do exactly what Jeff Bliss teacher did, which is only handing

out packets instead of getting up and interacting with the students. This is exactly why

students will be the number one critic when it comes to school. When there are school

district meetings there should be students involved instead of only the teachers. If

teachers are so concerned about how they can be better and capture their student’s

attention they should ask the students directly instead of playing the guessing game and

then wonder why the issues are not being resolved. Students will have to ability to vote

for the option of a teacher to return the next academic year. Attending school is the

beginning of our future and we need people who care about our well-being and want to

best for us in life so we definitely need teachers who will invest themselves into us to

make sure we have a brighter future and for us to obtain our goals to be able to proceed

with our passion in life.


School should always have some sort of structure to be able to function

properly.  There will be an optional entry placement exam available to students to take.

What this exam will do is basically let you know what you like to do so you can take

classes that are enjoyable to you. The entry exam is not required but it will help the

students who feel lost as if they have no clue in what they want to do. In life we are

questioned at a young age, “what do you want to be when you grow up”. As Karina

states in the Passion Project, “Karina: My parents are like, “You should do this because

this is gonna they’re gonna give you this you’re gonna get that.” But that also makes me

fearful like okay so if I don’t do that will I like fucking die or something or will I like not

succeed in life? That makes me really scared like to fall into this path that has been

unexplored. Students are being pressured into a field or major that they have no

interest in because they are having all of this pressure from not only society, but their

own family. The question can sometimes confuse people and make choices harder on

them. People are pushed to be a doctor or lawyer because in society people look at

them as a higher social status. Many people will not hear, “ you should be a

photographer or a florist”. Why is that?  As Emily states in the Passion Project, “We still

have that mindset where we need money to survive. Oh, I have money I can buy a

plasma T.V. I can buy a uh a king size bed,  a water bed.” Because now a days people are

taught that you need money in this world to survive, and the more money you make the

happier you will be. This is partly true, money makes life a little easier but money does

not bring happiness to everyone. As Ray states in the Passion Project, “ Because we’re

kind of brainwashed to like want this because we think it leads to freedom ‘cause

eventually when we have money we have freedom. But then what ends up happening is

we never make enough money to have this freedom so what ends up happening is we

work a typical 40 hours a week. The same life everyday and it’s consistent too

consistent. Just kinda confines us you know to not have freedom.” Money does confuse

us and we do tend to believe the more money we have the more freedom because we

are able to do more when we have money. Now days if you do not have money you

really can’t do anything.


I do not want my student to feel like Samira did when she got out of school and

into the real world, as Samira states in the Passion Project, “When I finally got out into

the world I was like, “Holy crap is this what it’s like?” I want the students to be ready for

the world and to be able to take everything on with the tools to be able to take on the

challenging situations because there will be plenty. I want the students who attend my

school to walk away from this dream school with independence, self-esteem, strength,

fearless, ambitious, and to never give up. When the students leave the school I want

them to feel that they received the education and experience more than they expected

to receive. Some people’s passion involves no money in return of their actions and they

do not mind because they are doing something that they love to do. As Ray says in the

Passion Project, “In order to love life you have to find your passion; you have to find

what truly makes you happy and when you find what truly makes you happy you gotta

chase after it; you gotta take those risks.” What Ray says is completely true. In life we

tend not to take risks and venture out because we are comfortable of where we are

which leads us to not taking risks on what may make us happy. The main goal of having

students to attend this school is to be able to experience everything and find what truly

makes them happy in life for themselves and not for anyone else.