Creativity
Dear School Board,
Creativity is a concept taught at a very young age. A concept basically adopted at birth. A concept indicating expression of your mind and individual thoughts, including a persons mind. Creativity is unique to everyone. For some, it may include an abstract art piece that only select people truly understand. For others, it may include an extensive algebraic equation that only certain minds may comprehend. For all, it is what their interests are or what they find exciting. But how might a student discover what excites them while sitting in a chair, following instructions for 8 hours of their day? How must they complete creative projects when their idea of creative is colorless and minimalistic? How must they complete a math equation when their interests relate to poetry or design? All students are required to take the same schedule, usually with the same people, every year. As if they are creating robots or machinery. Although they must explore different classes and concepts, why must the classes remain repetitive and discouraging to individuality. Children flourish when put into comfortable settings where they know they enjoy what they are doing. Rather than focusing on how many students are taking an honors english class, wouldn't it be more beneficial to focus on how many students enjoy and are passionate about their schedule? Or how many children actually express creativity rather than fall asleep in class? I don't know, just a thought I had.
Sincerely,
a dispassionate High School Student
I support your opinion that schools do not provide different ways for people to express their creative sides because they are forced to all learn in the same way every year, which causes consequences since they are not taught in a way that interests them. I really like how you formatted this post in the form of a letter because it takes another style on how your posts are crafted, so it is more enjoyable to read. Lastly, I enjoyed how you used rhetorical questions and parallelism because the questions made me think about how many students are not set up to succeed with theses current methods that allow creativity to be expressed, and the parallelism portrayed multiple sides to what creativity means.
ReplyDeleteWow great job! I liked how you were creative in formatting this blog post;) I completely agree that a student passionate about the classes their taking would benefit way more than taking classes they think will look good for college. Every individual has their own way of expressing, so schools should support the exploration of every individuals true passions and talents.
ReplyDeleteWhat a unique post! I love the use of rhetorical questions, it got me very interested and wanting to read more! I agree that students are all different, and deserve having other opportunities in school that allows them to express their creative skills. Great work Zina!
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