Is Enrichment really enriching?
A variable in the school systems down at IMS and NAMS is the class Enrichment.
To get into this class, you have to do a puzzle that any child is capable of preforming, but my “straight-A” friend didn’t make it into class.
Personally, I believe that this class is just handpicking random students that took the the test and placing them into a class that teaches useless information. If we aren’t all learning it, then how important can the subject be?
In the middle school, this class didn’t bother me because I knew that once we were placed into high school, all of the nonsense would be over and everybody would be learning similar things (other than electives that are chosen by the students themselves). These thoughts from my middle school days are now thrown into the trash after one year into high school.
We are bringing Enrichment to high school which is corrupting a student’s education by taking them out of classes that are required for other students who are not in the class. Enrichment shouldn’t be barging into a normal student’s life by taking them out of important classes to do pointless and meaningless thing for a whole day, and sometimes longer than that.
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Michael Herrington • Oct 31, 2014 at 12:33 pm
i want to be a part of this
Mackenzie Happe • Oct 20, 2014 at 10:31 pm
nice
Enrichment Student • Oct 16, 2014 at 3:27 pm
We actually don’t learn useless stuff. We learn things that we are told others our age wouldn’t understand as easily. I don’t believe that part though because I taught my friend some stuff last year and she understood just fine. As for the taking us out of classes, the only reason we can get out is if we think the class is moving too slow. Even then we do an extra project for the teacher and have to take the same test as the rest of the class.
Natalie Coccagno • Oct 20, 2014 at 12:53 pm
You may understand a subject more than I do, and I may understand another subject more than you do, but that does not mean one of us should get special treatment for it. Taking students out of their classes is not necessary. I understand a lot of things in my classes to a point where the subject seems to be moving slow, but I have to deal with it and so should every other student. If we are in the tenth grade, we should be learning things that tenth graders need to learn. If we are in the eleventh grade, then we should be learning things that eleventh graders need to learn. If you want something more advanced, you should take an honors or AP class. There is no need to be taken out to learn something completely different than all of your classmates.