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School is a place that most people have to deal with in their life. We learn, make friends, and find who we are in school. It’s hard going to schools where it’s where students find it difficult to fit in or maybe it’s not in the environment you can learn best in. Everyone has their own preference about the school they wish they’d go to. Most people wish they could find their “Dream School”. To me a perfect school for students would be a small school that is focused around art. Some people wish they didn’t have to learn things that wouldn’t have benefited them in their careers or in life, since having the knowledge of the atomic table will help file taxes for this year. Even though the knowledge may not be use in a day-to-day basis it’s some good knowledge to know. Students should appreciate all the things they learn in school. Since school is a place of finding yourself everything you learn in school can cause a spark and change your future. Not many students view school this way, then again like most people say, “everyone’s a critic.” Most students now critique teachers very harshly, even though sometimes the teachers may not be at fault. School is a place where everyone has equal opportunity to pass the class; some students feel that since they didn’t pass the class the teacher is at fault, even if most of the class passed the class. Having interesting teachers may help, but the key part to a school is having students with motivation. That’s the kind of school that I’d like, where everyone is motivated or can motivate others to keep going.

The school, where the students would be attending, would be a public high school; it’d be kind of like a charter school, with a school population of 500 students max. To get in to the school you would have to go through an interview with a counselor to see how motived the student is to for school, the ones who get into the school would be the ones who are motivated and the ones who aren’t. The ones who are in between are capable of handling themselves at a different school. The reason why I’d want to accept people who aren’t motivated to going to school would be to try to change their view on schools and the motivated students would help them out with support and leading by example. The students play a major role in the school, because they decide what kind of classes the school offers, besides core classes. Also since the size of the school is so small it’d help the students and teachers to get to know one another a lot better. It gives more room for the students and the teachers to connect.

Since students have a major role in the school they also have a lot of say in what happens in the school. Like most school districts have a board of directors and vote on what happens to schools, there will be a board of students that decide what happens in the school, like a student government. The school will be like a republic, where representatives of some classes meet and vote to see what the theme for prom will be, and if really needed vote to see if the teacher is really unqualified to teach the students at the school. If most students feel that a teacher shouldn’t be at the school, there’s a high chance they’re not. The voice of the student is probably the most important thing in my school. If they know it’s important I hope they would feel the need to express their opinion and fight for it. Many students now, and stay quiet about things and are very passive. They would rather stay quiet and not stand out than expressing how they felt. Students feel that they would be shamed for expressing their opinions. There was a student named Jeff Bliss who took a stand for his belief and was recorded by his fellow classmate. During his rant regarding his teacher’s method of teaching, she was very uninterested and sent him to the principles office. For letting his opinion be known in his class, but he just got sent out. That probably discouraged other students to say their opinions on the teacher as well. Even if Bliss’s way of expressing his opinion wasn’t the most ethical way of doing it, it surely did make an impact since someone the video someone recorded became viral.

Teachers are what keep the students going. In the school there can only be teachers with two passions, those passions being teaching and the subject they are teaching. Many teachers have different methods of teaching, but some methods of teaching make the students feel like they’re not even part of the class. It’s hard to keep track of everything that a teacher says when there are no pauses in between, “the teacher keeps talking and talking and talking…and you can’t learn from it. You can’t get a sense of connectivity with it…and it hard for me to remember it.” When students and teachers can’t understand each other it’s difficult for the students to keep up with work that they aren’t on the same page. Most students who are good with their academics talk to their teachers outside of class asking for help, and that’s something teachers should students to want to seek help from them and try to bring out their full potential. It shows that the students are showing initiative and want to succeed in the class.

Students are able to go to a school with pride if the school is a really cool looking school. The structure of the school has to be simple, but really creative at the same time. I want students to want to go to school. The outside of the school can be as plain as it can be, but when you walk inside of the school the atmosphere has to be completely different from where anyone is ready to learn or create something new. The inside of the school has to be a warm environment that can relax anyone. The school needs to be a place where creativity can flow. The walls would be filled with art that the student creates that would be changed every other month. There would also be TV screens that display the digital media art that would be on a slide show. Many rooms would be filled with computers for students to use. Those rooms are to be vacant at all times for the students, unless a teacher reserves the room a head of time for a class. Since digital art is making a huge impact in our world that’s what will be a major part of the schools curriculum.

Once a student has graduated from my school, I’d want them to be able to know what they want to do in life and pursue their dreams. Whether it is being a digital designer, photographer, or even a marketer they will be prepared for any obstacles to come their way. Since digital was the major focus in the school the students should be able to use or easily adapt to any art software there is.