Comments on: Summer – Take Classes or Relax?

By: Diamond Broussard

Diamond Broussard — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:48:45 +0000

Hi!
I see that you are still early in your high school career. There a two more years, actually three in which you can earn extra summer credits for college. You should take the Spoken Word class and go on the trip. Otherwise, you’ll always regret it and have the “What if” question floating in your head. Also, colleges may be interested in hearing about the great opportunity you had by being allowed to go to D.C. and inspire youth with your words.

Good luck! Z hope that everything works out well, and I’d love to hear some of your spoken word as a peer poet and co-ibabuzz contributor.

By: Debora

Debora — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:45:55 +0000

My 8 year old daughter will have a little of both. She is returning to UC Berkeley’s ATDP program, taking a course in the rainforest. It’s the one time a year that the class flows on with activity, engagement, high expectations and accountability to be there on time, every day, engaged.

The advantage of the summer is the ability to delve deep into one subject.

Classes are only half day – then comes playing outside, building forts, developing a pulley system to drag things from house to tree house and back again with the neighborhood friends.

And, we will be going the impressionist women artists exhibit at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco and the Frida Kahlo exhibit at SFMOMA this summer.

But the most fun of all will be taking a family vacation by the sea – hanging out and playing board games, looking at the tide pools, riding our bikes and getting reconnected in that relaxing, wondering kind of way.

For my daughter, at age 8, more learning is done over the summer than during the school year.

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:27:50 +0000

If you can get in a summer class, do it. I won’t repeat what I just posted on Isabel’s latest blog entry, but please take a moment to go read it. It definitely applies to your situation as well as hers.

By: Nextset

Nextset — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:03:27 +0000

Travel if at all possible. Visit relatives on the other side of the country. Consider summer school or a seminar at a college elsewhere, some programs allow the visiting student to stay in the dorms. Try to plan something for the summer that gives you experience that the typical student such as yourself does not have.