Blog Post 9

After being able to read about the SummerHill school and the different type of techniques that it allowed its students to use, it really opens my eyes on what a good school should look like.  After doing the group design project, being in a group with three different cultures was very helpful.  We were able to distinguish differences from one another cultures and take what we thought what was best from both and combine them into our school.  The reason that I had chosen relationships was because it sounded as though teacher/student relationships in Niko and Kevin's were not as strong as I have witnessed in the States.  Which is why we choose our school to be in a impoverished area because we wanted every student to have the chance to have the best education that they could possibly get, depending on whether or not they wanted to.  The biggest thing that really stuck out to me while designing our school was the sense of it being a boarding school on the weekdays, and the eating a meal together at least once a week.  The school would be the home away from home for the students and what other way to make it feel like home and a family than eating a meal together with one another.  As Kevin had explained in class, in France, having a meal with someone shows that you have a special connection with that person or peoples.  I also think that if a school wants to be the "best", it has to change every single year because each year students are changing and the only way to survive is to adapt to their students and their abilities.