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Goodbye,

a bit about me:

To me, being an AdVENTURE student means using computers often and project based learning. Project based learning is great. It sets you up for your future careers, teaches you to work with other people, and helps with communication skills. Computers are useful because so many jobs now require computer skills.  So AdVENTURE was great.

 

It WAS great. In 5th grade, AdVENTURE was all I hoped it would be. We worked on tons of amazing building projects and stuff that required us to work well in groups. During 5th and 6th grades, we did plently of coll stuff. Though by the time I hit 7th grade, that all started to dissapear. Sure we still worked on projects, but very few of them were in teams. Working with other people became more of a reward than a norm.

 

Core became downright tedious. We just wrote essays, completed worksheets, and watched powerpoints. There were some projects, but they were few and far between. Plus, the people in advanced math weren't even in AdVENTURE math. There were sent to herman to do math there. The only classes that still hold mostly true to the whole AdVENTURE thing are science,  electives, and non-advanced math. 

 

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed AdVENTURE. I would consider it better than most public schools. It's just not nearly what it's cracked up to be. So if you are going in with interest in social studies or language arts, this is not the school. If you want to have a program that focuses on projects, you need to: a) make them intersting or different in some way, not staggeringly mundane. b) change them up. Even if essays were fun, don't make them the only projects we do. c) Give lots of time for the projects, but expect a great product.

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