Why don’t we ever have class
outside? Remember in middle school how some teachers really liked having class
outside- my elementary school liked having outdoor class so much that they
built an outdoor classroom. In middle school they took away recess and let us
go outside during lunch, but that was the only outdoor activity built into the
everyday school schedule. So what happens when you get to high school? The
outside world is completely gone from the high school day, replaced by the four
walls of tests, quizzes, homework, and essays that every teenager hates. For
each transition we go through in school, we lose more and more outdoor class
time.
Am I the only one out there who
has those teachers that tell you what a nice day it is out, and that they want
you to go get some fresh air after school, but then assign a crap-ton of
homework that you have to do? They assign all this homework that you have to
stay inside and do, but they encourage you to soak up the UV rays that have
managed to burst through the clouds. If they insist on piling on the homework, why
not give us the outside time we want while we are at school? You could easily
bring a whiteboard outside and teach us math or physics or anything really. It’s not that complicated- when teachers say they would love
to go outside and have class they need to just do it. The only ones that are
going to complain are those prissy little girls who don’t want their hair to
blow around and look a tad bit windblown.
I don’t know about the rest of
the student population, but I actually prefer learning outside every once in a
while. I mean really, we go from being outside twenty four seven during the
summer to stuck within those four confining walls for eight hours a day. And
then winter rolls around and we are stuck inside even more so because none of
us can drive anywhere without sliding on the slick roads. So finally spring
comes along and all we want to do is finish the school year and make it to
summer, but the hardest thing to deal with is the fact that we can’t just sit
there and enjoy school with a three month break from school just a few weeks
away- no, no, we start to get pumped up. We want to go outside and smell the
roses- I don’t even like the smell of roses, but if smelling roses is what it
took for me to get outside, you can bet I wouldn’t take my nose out of those
dang flowers.
I think y’all have seen my point
by now: high school needs to install some sort of free time for teenagers to
get their butts outside DURING school. Some of us are extremely busy after school
and don’t have time to make it outside, others of us are just feeling restless
with summer a handful of weeks away. Just because we are older, doesn’t mean we
don’t have the same desire to go outdoors as we did when we were little pipsqueaks
playing at recess. I spend eight hours a day, five days a week stuck inside at
school. You’d think five to ten minutes outside a day wouldn’t hurt anybody,
but obviously I don’t know anything because it hasn’t happened yet.
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