Short post today!
We have had three total calamity days this week at school and I've been here everyday doing something. Today, I'm finishing the grading on some essays and I started to think about the value some of this work has for our students.
In the case of these essays, students had to interact with, research, and develop opinions on the issue of gun control. As a part of my practice, at least at the start, I allow my students to just fly headfirst into a topic; I don't do very much in the way of hand holding. I do this so that they can start to develop their own opinions about particular issues.
Some of these papers have been OK, others have been phenomenal. The important thing is that these young adults, who will soon join us in the ranks as voters and potential leaders, have an opportunity to work with these issues before they are at the polling place. Education about our government and laws MATTERS!
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