I liked the word Purpose for this blog post and really wanted to make a link to the Matrix with it. Any time I hear that word I hear Agent Smith emphasizing each syllable.
As I thought about what I really wanted to say in this post though it turned a lot more into Interest.
I was thinking about how after doing a lot of homework I just voluntarily worked on some Debate stuff. The last time I was voluntary in doing schoolwork was probably 7-8th grade EAST lab. Without going into a huge history (which I'm tempted to do) EAST is a program that focuses on service learning and is a class that is self taught. We didn't have a teacher we had a "facilitator" that basically did the adult things for us that kids couldn't do. But all in all the point was for us to be doing the adult things and learning.
Lots of service projects, improving the school, running recycling programs, fixing computers, running the morning announcements through the TV's, doing the schools yearbook.
All of this was our classes job last year (we were the 2nd year class) and as the only 13 2nd years we got all the fun and hard jobs. At one point I got to go to a website design training workshop and missed two days of school. The class was hard and rewarding but because of an amazing cast of kids and a "facilitator" that won the facilitator of the year award I loved being in that class and doing work for it.
EAST is an amazing organization but is often limited by the host school ie. why I'm not in it at Central.
Because of this I haven't had a class that has sparked my interest until Debate. We have one of the largest teams in the country with 150 kids. While not service oriented it's fun and teaches you a lot of higher level thinking skills.
I have an interest in that class and in some sense a purpose. It's fun to have one of those, you should all look into it.
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