Short Project: School

Today in class we did a short project about a different type of school. This school was meant to get teenagers ready for adulthood, so this school was not curriculum based, but more society  based. We had to design a school where learning is not really the main focus, but when there is learning it is what the students choose to learn about. The overall idea of the project was that regular schools do not do anything for kids and they only gets them ready for more school and not for real world adulthood like how to live independently and how to survive in this society. Because school do not do this, we had to make a school that primarily did this.

To the left is a picture of our idea of our school. In the center is the IL building. It has many different courses the students can learn about and they choose what course and when they want to learn. To the left of the IL building is the curved dorm building. This is a co-ed building but boy and girls will not sleep in the same rooms. The red building is a store/ restaurant. The main idea for this is that you are responsible for buy and getting your own food just as adults are. This will teach the students responsibility which is a huge part of being an adult. The building to the right is the library where the students will do most of  their research just like in college. It is shaped with a 90 degree angle because it is supposed to look like and represent a book. Finally the abstract structure below the IL building will a sort of large fountain. It is there to create a calm area for all the students and to provide a place to just hang out and relax.