HW 51

School can be looked at than more than just an "educational palace" that we spend our time in from 9 AM to 3 PM. When asked either by yourself or someone else, people tend to lose thought on what school actually is. Because of this, School, which becomes apart of our daily lives at a young age, is know being second guessed by the majority of students. rather than being looked at as an opportunity to gain knowledge for the future, school is often compared to jail and a place that nobody wants to be.

Now that school's true meaning is often looked at as the enemy, I now find myself questioning what is the true point of sitting in multiple classrooms doing nothing but listening to the "master" up front, taking notes on his/her wisdom, and keeping my mouth shut the majority of the time, unless I want to hear the great words of the "master" a second time. I'll admit that there might be a chance that school's true meaning is to help prepare students for their futures, but if that IS true, I most definitely missed it.

Unless one would like to be a teacher, what's the point of coming to school? I picture myself involved in some form of athletics, whether it means being an athlete or in another field still involving sports....or even BOTH. Since this is my personal case, why is it that I can't go for these dreams of mine unless I'm able to understand factors quadratic functions or finding the molarity of a substance? To me, this is just unfair.

As much as the majority of school time is unfair, there are some good things that come out of it. Out of all my classes, i find Internship class to be the most helpful for my future after high school. While it doesn't concentrate on my specific career interests, it DOES talk about important factors of life such as ;earning how to deal with budgets, how to nail an interview for a job, basically stuff that actually matter if one would like to be successful in his/her life.If all classes were more like this, then maybe a lot of students wouldn't have to unrelunctantly force themselves out of bed every school morning. Just maybe, they'd be willing to receive some guidance for when they go out into the world without mommy and daddy no longer being behind them.

In my opinion, College is when you start your life. You choose the classes you want, which teaches the topics you're interested in, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out you're in a good position in this point of your life. To better suit their student's love of education, maybe grade schools should try to be more opened up with a variety of classes, giving them more options. As much as teachers and parents may disagree with it, students deserve a right to have options in what they are taught. It allows them to potentially discover hidden talent, the same talents that will make them successful in their jobs and careers which will define their place in their society, and in the world. That may seem too far out and sound crazy to a lot of people, but that's only because school isn't in the format that it should be. There's a saying that states "Change is Good", whether or not people agree with it or not, let's give change a try and see just how far it would be able to take us.

HW 50

After reading the article, i could definitely say that i have the same view of school as Gatto does. Basically, he views schools as somewhat of a blockage for students to really push themselves and being able to discover their full potential. Because school doesn't necessarily work for the favor of the student's interests, students come to school not really caring about what is offered and instead just waste their time, although it's NOT completely their fault. If you're not interested in something, you're not interested in it, period. You can't shove a topic into someone's mind and expect to force them to like it (unless they are weak minded, but that isn't everyone).

One of Gatto's "rules" states that students should "stay in the class where they belong", This says a lot to me. Gatto, like me, believes that students should be in classrooms in which the topic is appealing to them, like they actually WANT to listen rather than just sit there and wait for the time to pass them by. It almost strikes me that some adults agree with the same educational beliefs as students.

I failed Spanish class last year and that cost me a credit. My aunt couldn't believe spanish class, a class that she believed should be an elective, was costing me a grade. After talking for a while, she had the same beliefs as read in Gatto's "6 Lessons", which basically sum up that students deserve a say in what they are taught for the sake of taking what they learn and keeping it with them for the future, rather than forgetting 4 years worth of classes a month after graduating.

HW 49

I believe my class' teacher/student savior video was a good POV more towards both sides of the classroom. There's the teacher, who is trying to do his job and try to contain control of the classroom, then theres the students, whp not only dont care about school, but have some reasons behind it (such as what was seen in the movie "Freedom Writers").

My role was that of the cameraman for the second half of the movie. While behind the camera, i was able to get an outsider's perspective on the whole teacher and student relationship in the classroom. Also, in the first half of the movie, I was one of the main characters. My role was the victim of bullying, which gave me an inside look of what a student in that POV goes through, both physically and mentally, which can connect to a reason as to why some students may dislike school, thus needing a savior in the teacher.

Overall, i feel like once again, our movie was a great way to show yet another view on what the status is in a general classroom. Although not ALL classes were as bad as we were acting for the video, is still gives oppurtuntity to think and discuss about the deeper depths on what school is about, what the POVs are, etc.

Although it was a good video, I think it would be more beneficial for all outside viewers to get more of a POV from the teacher, only because most movies out concentrate more on fixing the students. How about if STUDENTS help TEACHERS?

HW 48 - Treatment for Savior/Teacher Movie

In this video, there should be something happening that is the complete opposite of what we saw in multiple videos in class. Rather than have the old, traditional student learns from teacher plot, why not reverse it and have a teacher learns from their students?

Believe it or not, there has to be at least one teacher out there who's at the point of his/her life where the only reason why they come to work is because of the paycheck. They are just mentally drained and have no more inspiration to teach willingly. However, there are students who are being taught by this teacher who actually want to learn something. So instead of having the teacher try and change the perspective of education of the students, in this video, the students will help pull the teacher out of the dark, boring hole that the teacher has fell in.

I feel this is a good idea because over the last few weeks, we have seen multiple, different POVs, but all of them were through the eyes of the teacher. So now, its the students turns. That way, maybe the viewer of all the movies can have a steady, clear vision of what the relationship is between teachers and students.

So considering what the teachers have done for the students in the videos, this self made video could be looked at as somewhat a thank you or a sign of appreciation from the students to the figure of the teacher that has helped the figure of the students in the past.