| It's amazing how easy it is to forget about the | | | | on society using their creative ideas. |
| middle school years. Do you remember your crazy | | | | So who should care about middle school students? |
| middle school years? Middle school students are | | | | Everyone should care including parents, corporations, |
| often caught in the middle while we focus on | | | | our government, teachers and counselors. We all |
| preparing high school students for college. There | | | | have an investment in making middle school more |
| needs to be national attention focused on the middle | | | | interesting. Students should have laptop computers |
| school years to prepare them for the career | | | | and graphing calculators as a standard resource for |
| challenges that face this country. I have noticed | | | | learning. We need to demonstrate how we value |
| that even those who write books focus their efforts | | | | the learning capacity of every student by giving them |
| on elementary and high school students and leave | | | | innovative projects. Why not let the middle school |
| middle school students out. If you ever attend a | | | | students create a city wide effort to save their city |
| national book fair there are limited creative efforts to | | | | money. You would then witness how much |
| excite middle school students to read. Any parent | | | | creativity an influence they can have when they think |
| who is raising a middle school student can tell you | | | | about the future of their own city. We need to |
| that they are in a different transition in their lives. | | | | spend more time helping middle school students to |
| Communicating with middle school students can be | | | | believe that they are part of the solution. |
| challenging if you are unwilling to admit that you are | | | | There are thousands of middle schools teachers |
| not perfect. Middle school students need parents | | | | who need help too. The complexity of the 21st |
| and teachers who will let them know that they care. | | | | century middle school student can be challenging. |
| There should be a national effort to help middle | | | | Students who would rather text message than talk |
| school students to explore all types of careers. The | | | | to each other makes for a different world. Middle |
| rapid changes technology careers that are happening | | | | school studentsare multi-tasking just like high school |
| around the world are still far away from the minds of | | | | students. They are talking on their cell phone, sending |
| middle school students in this country. Now is the | | | | messages on their computer, talking to their friends |
| time to make them a part of the green revolution in | | | | and doing homework at the same time. It has |
| solar and wind energy. It would be great to see | | | | made middle school an interesting place to try to |
| how these students could envision their future with | | | | keep students focused on learning. Middle school |
| solar powered cars and wind technology that reduces | | | | students have become accustomed to a fast paced |
| the cost of energy in each home. Some of the | | | | day. It's time to fill their lives with experiences that |
| most innovative students are wasting away in middle | | | | makes middle school a place to run too not from. |
| school because they continue to be taught by | | | | Let's take the middle school years as a tremendous |
| traditional methods. Maybe every middle school | | | | opportunity to help students to encounter a whole |
| class should be full of green experiments that allow | | | | new journey to their future. |
| the students to find themselves and to make a mark | | | | |