What I Think About The Academy and Why it Should Continue

This academy has been a great experience and I believe it should continue. The academy is so different than a regular class, some people love change and some people do not. This is why some people have been so upset to find that the Arrowhead administration has been against this change and don't want the sophomores of next year "us" to be able to take this class.

 I can't seem think about how it will be in a regular class next year. I think the academy brings out the things in us that are going to set us apart from the people in regular classes. I think the academy teaches us things that will make us the engineers instead of the builders, the ones who design the cars instead of assembling them in a factory, the ones that are Governors, assembly members, and  judges instead of the ones who are working for the state or nation at the post office, DMV, or are filing papers for the city. For some that's fine, they will be happy doing the same king of job, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year until they retire. That's nothing to be ashamed of but I couldn't do that. I want to be the one that does something different. Something that can change lives and finally someone that is not just over looked.

The academy teaches us how to do that. It teaches us how to actually solve the problem instead of asking someone else how, or to do it for them. It teaches us to find what we are interested in and work at it. For example in our energy drink testing project we got to pick the lab and how we wanted to do it instead of Mr. Mechenich handing us the same lab as every other Science 9 class. Because of this I put a lot of work in to that lab along with the One to One project. It almost seemed like I had put my heart into those two projects compared to just finishing them like the things I was assigned in 7th grade, 8th grade, and towards the end of this last semester.

But this semester I feel that the academy is changing. It is going to be like it was at the beginning of this year. If the academy can stay like this I believe that we will learn and want to learn so much more than in any other regular class. Maybe if the administration sees this, maybe if some how blogs and letters reach the administration in time and if the teachers could also help out our case then the academy will be allowed to continue. The administration will see we need this class next year. But if that dose not work maybe they will see that the kids that were in the academy seem bored, unmotivated by regular classes their sophomore year they will bring it back for our Junior year.

1/9-1/14

This week in the academy was all about finals studding for finals and working on our semester presentation.  The only time we weren't working on the finals was when we were in art, or when we did a lab in science witch was really cool we got to do some experiments with fire witch everyone always loves. This was a good week and I really hope that we get a day or to more to work on the presentation.   

1/3-1/8

This week in the academy we started really working hard on our semester exam and next week I can start to get to work on it. We also have been reviewing things like grammar rules, reviewing the periodic table, and things for geography. Besides that because of the four day break it was a really laid back chill kinda week.