Science is the study of the behavior of physical and natural things. Basically, it tells you how something works and why it works and what it is for. Without science we would not have long hard equations, (Such as:
(Whatever that means.)) Also, without science, we would not have a class where we can dissect dead animals and figure out what their internal organs/body parts look like. Also, we would not have a class where your teachers are usually either very cool, or very weird or both, but that is a good thing!
Thankfully, my science teachers have been really cool like (names have been changed to protect the innocent) Mrs. Frog Lover. I have also had a really cool science teacher named Mr. T. (No, it's not the English teacher Mr. T, this is a different guy.) Mr. T. was awesome! He let us play mum ball and have our iPods out during class, after we got all our homework done of course. He also made science make sense. With my other science teacher for that year, Mrs. Really Cool, I understood what she was talking about. It was great since I had two really great science teachers and they made that year in science memorable. Also, Mr. T and Mrs. Really Cool and Mrs. Frog Lover went over all the stuff that we were supposed to learn that year with us again and again until we got it.
My science teacher this year, Mr. E. (this is actually his nick-name, so I thought I would stick with it) is really cool. He offers each student a chance to become part of our science school club and it is a lot of fun. He lets you pick what categories you want to learn about and then you study them. After a couple of months of learning about your "event/topic," you play against other schools to see who knows the most, who does the best with their designs, and who, over all, wins. It's very exciting and very fast.
Anyway, to get to my thesis, my question for this week is: should every student have the chance to participate in all academic school events without trying out? Or is that not fair to the other kids that have already tried out to be on the academic school event's team?
My opinion is that you should have to tryout, but you shouldn't exclude anyone who wants to participate.
People get disappointed when they don't make something or when they have to do something that they really didn't want to do. People are disappointed when don't get to do the thing they really wanted to do. I think that everyone has a right to have fun and participate in whatever academic school event they want to participate in.
Schools are here to do three things: help students learn, have them meet new people, and to have them try new things. How can we have people try new things if they don't even have the chance to try to do something else? Where is the justice in that? For example: Many people in my school loved a program called MESA. MESA was great. It taught you science principles and you didn't have to have the stress of competing against another team on your shoulders. It didn't take that long and it was really fun, but then, the budget got cut and more people come out to see the sports than the academic battles, so MESA lost a lot of its funding. (Not to mention that the programs price went up too.) We didn't have enough money to keep the program alive.
What I really liked about MESA was that you could always have fun there and be your smart self there. Without that program, I felt as though something was wrong. I loved MESA. It was so much fun! When they got rid of it, that was just another one of the after school events that our kids love that were canceled.
People need to realize that science is a good thing. They also need to realize that MESA could have taught many kids about a lot more science that they would usually get in their regular science class. Other classes could have taught kids a lot about themselves too if only people would think about the academics as much as they think about sports!
That's all for this week. I hope this was educational and fun this week! See you guys next week!
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