School should be more like sports. If I am not mistaken, then there are other kids like me, kids would rather be playing basketball, kids who would rather be dancing or even kids who would rather be acting. In the classroom every day, we sit in our seats, take notes, do work sheets, and listen to the teachers lecture us. The thing about learning in classrooms is that we’re not active. If we were to learn the way Logan LaPlante learns at his program, we would get some of the same curriculum and have fun doing it. For one example, he went to the Squaw Valley ski patrol to learn about mountain safety, and then the next day they learned about the science of snow and weather, and avalanches. Not only is this a good way to learn but it gets you up and moving. I feel like we could keep some of the class work, but also it would not be very hard to do fun things in classes. We could do things as simple as acting out a Shakespeare play in History.
Don’t get me wrong, I think Catlin has lots of fun, exciting extra things that most other schools in the world do not have, things such as ropes courses, outdoor trips, and plenty of cool co-curricular activities. Other schools in the nation don’t get these opportunities.
If kids had the opportunities to learn like playing basketball, then they could be able to approach things differently, acquire good teamwork, and successfully succeed in whatever they wanted to do with the help of their teacher or in this case their coach.
I think that if I were ever a teacher, I would listen to what the kids wanted to learn and how they wanted to learn it. Not only that, but I would also try to make whatever we were doing very fun and also very educational at the same time -- like when you practice learning a new move in basketball, you are learning and also having fun.
The thing about Logan LaPlante's technique is that it is like skiing: sometimes when you’re trying a new trick, you will fail. Failing is not always a bad thing because if you don’t ever fail then you’re not trying new things. Once you do fail you will be pushed harder and you will want to keep trying and keep trying until you get it perfectly.
