*Spring Break 2

Um ok so I guess I forgot to put whatever we were supposed to put about the model classroom thing on my last post so I'll do it on this one. If we get model classroom status I say we have a party all day and I don't think we should bring that much unhealthy food cause then we will all get fat and die. And we should also have guitar hero cause it rocks even though I stink at it. But that's ok we can't all be good at everything. For instance Madi isn't good at being smart. But that's ok. And also Mr. Sullivan isn't good at coming up with jokes that don't confuse me. But that's ok too. But anyway that's not the point, I just want to have guitar hero ok?

*Spring Break

Well I didn't really do much over spring break. I basically lived with Hanna and we didn't really do anything but sit around, stretch, and other things that need not be mentioned. We also went to Omaha where we went shopping and stayed at a hotel where we ordered room service at like midnight. Oh, and we also went on a 4 mile walk, but that was in lex. And I'm trying to think of anything else we did and I really can't right now so i guess that's it. And by the way Mr. Sullivan, I only watched Pearl Harbor once over Spring Break.

Christmas Break

Today we arrived back from Christmas Break and we were asked to blog about it. My Christmas Break was fun. I spent most of my days before Christmas in different places shopping for Christmas presents. On Christmas I hung around with family and basically did nothing. After Christmas I pretty much lived at Hanna Christensen's house because I guess I just didn't want to go home. I hung around with a lot of other friends through out the break. I also attended the Lexington Shootout basketball tournament where a bunch of my friends and my little sister played in. And now I'm back in school where I don't want to be. That is how my break was. On a side note I watched Pearl Harbor a total of 6 times over break thats which adds up to 21 hours of Pearl Harbor time and if that's not cool then I don't know what is.

Limerick

Once upon a time
An angry little girl found a dime
She liked to commit crimes
Although she didn’t get caught all the time
Out of anger she threw this dime
The hit an old lady holding a lime
The lime fell out of the old lady’s reach
So she screamed rather sharp with a screech
The angry little girl ran away
And thought, “She wasn’t going to eat that lime anyway!”

Are We Failing Our Geniuses?

What is the difference between a challenged kid "trying" to learn more, and an advanced kid "striving to learn more? The difference is, is that the advanced student can make a difference. Now the question is, why is it that the challenged student often gets more attention brought to them rather than the advanced student? Most people simlply think by teaching a challenged student something new, they just might get a lesson out of it. With that brought to words now i must ask, what is this challenged student going to do with this new knowledge? Four out of five times absolutely nothing! Now if we switched that around and put an advanced student in the mix, the repsonse would be the exact opposite of a challenged student.
This situation occurs every single day somewhere in this world. Challenged students more than likely will get more attention than advanced students in school. If that is the situation, that means one of these students may not be where they should be. More than likely the advanced student is the one being neglected of their learning. To me, that doesn't make sense at all. Why not put the advanced students where they should be? If that means skip a few grades, than skip a few grades. Most people disagree with this in fear of a particular student having social or emotional issues. Defending that issue, I am going to argue by saying, studies show more kids who were not allowd to be challenged at a level necessary, have more soical and emotional problems than students who were. Yet still school systems aren't allowing advanved students skip grades that need to be skipped. Personally I disagree with this method, and I'm sure many people out there may feel the same way I do.
Recently, I heard of the Davidson Academy for advanced students. These overly intelligent students, are well active in their school, socially active inparticular. Some people may have negative opinions about this school, but I for one think highly of it. I wish others to agree with me as well.