Debating School-continued

The last two weeks of my life have pertained to my last discussion in an unusual way. I have been a student of a charter school. But even here the way of teaching has been very much the same as all other schools. In my observation from being here the only thing significant about it is that more classes involving the arts are available, it is rather low-key on the political issues as well. Like every school, it says the pledge every morning, but other than that and a speaker on Martin Luther King Jr. Day you hardly hear of anything political. One thing different, however, is History Day, this does allow students to really research and think about significant topics in history, and the 'project' that goes with it enables them to be active or see more of what it was about.
This is my first year participating in History Day but I really like this years topic, Debate. This particular theme helps students understand some of the issues that have happened, and could still be happening, today. It forces them to analyze both sides of what happened and come up with there own conclusion of who was in the right. When students start to think for themselves in issues of the world that will help in shaping the government (as I started to mention in the last post)
This one event, in select schools, does not change the whole of public school flaws, however. The majority of America still does not understand some of the core events of how and why the world works the way it does. Yet, they still try to make their own opinions and vote for whomever they believe is right for helping America survive. I believe that if the public schools started finding systems that applied to all students, America would see a difference in our way of thinking about the world.

Dabating School

I plan on going into polotics when I head for collage so I will discuss one of my views on something I believe is a problem. One of my biggest opinions is about the public school system. I understand that there are students that learn the way public schools teach, but the majority of the people generally forget most of what they 'should' know by the age of 30. Making students memorize certain things each year so they can pass the test at the end is not the only option to education.
One of the strongest ways for people to learn is to think deeper about what they are learning, not just being forced to write a three page paper on some guy that wrote a famous book; instead, they could read the book that he wrote and possibly have a class discussion about the events in it and possibly why he wrote it. This is just one example, another way students learn is to be active. Schools could be made to focus on active activities that help the student understand exactly what they are learning, maybe they could do a skit with Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech in it.
Personally, I think it would be better if America could find a way to create public schools of different varity. There is, of corse, charter and private schools, but these are not always available to familie's. I believe it would be benefitial to creat public schools with a new technique to teaching for the students that simply have a different way of learning.