Reading #4 - School Reflections

After watching the videos there are a few important factors I would like to reflect on. First of all, I feel Richard Louv has a great point that he made, school system educators do not spend enough time outside of the four walls of a class room in most cases.  I have been to school where we had recess, we spent time outside for classes, we explored our surroundings, and then, I have had classes where we sit inside of a class room with white walls and typically blue carpet. They are coming out with all of these psychiatric labels for  children and teens but look, who would not be stir crazy spending almost 8 hours trapped in a boring room listening to someone speak or watching old tutorial videos? I think it is extremely important to get outside and for teachers to push you to explore and to see what is really surrounding you. Today, not all parents sent their children to play outside on nice days, all to many of them remain inside playing with their games or their toys. These things are great when it is a rainy or cold day, but when it is perfect weather, children need to be outside. This is what I did when I was growing up. I was always outside chasing lizards, picking flowers, climbing trees, and today that is why I can name so many native animal and plant species, because it interested me and I was forced into it. I think nature is one of the best forms of entertainment.

The next issue I want to touch on is something I mentioned, psychiatric labeling, but I would like to get a bit more in depth with this. Although I feel there are times that people do deserve this label, it should not negatively impact them in live. I feel like children that were labeled with any of these psychiatric labels are treated differently within both family and school settings. Although in school they may need different teaching techniques and more attention to deal with their learning and behavioral differences I think school should be able to better provide this.