I live in a very small school district. We do not have much money, like many other schools nowadays. The thing is, we are roughly five million in the hole. This was an effect of building another elementary school the size of a really fancy high school in another district. It's ridiculously large, and should not be for little kids. Us middle schoolers are stuck in our ancient middle school while the little kids get a tall ceiling elementary school with a giant gym and many more rooms. The only downside may be that in an effort to help save money and benefit the environment, they never use lights. Instead they have sunroofs and rely on the sun to give them light. However, I still believe that older students should be able to use a giant building.
At this point, you may think my blog post is about the construction of this building our school district decided to build. WRONG. It is actually about a decision made about whether or not students will have a field trip. Our school district cut the field trip for my grade, 7th grade, but allowed 6th graders to take their usual required (and I say "required" loosely) field trip. Also, the 8th graders were supposed to have a field trip to a local pool and party all day with friends, but that was cut as well. Since it was the last year for the 8th graders, our school district wanted to make it up to them, so they had them go to our high school's planetarium. *clap* *clap* BRAVO. What a waste of money that is just to have students break their necks and look up onto a digital map. Get this: Everyone who has been in our school district since the beginning has seen the planetarium before! It was cool the first time, but I can understand why the 8th graders found it very boring and a waste of time. Some even said they would rather stay in school than go to the planetarium! Admit it, at some point in your life, you will go to a planetarium.
Anyway, I really want your opinion on this, so my question of the week is...
What do you think of the school district's decision of allowing a field trip to our school district's planetarium?
P.S. This is totally irrelevant to the topic we were just talking about, but to the Legend of Korra fans out there, check out this crazy video I found the other day... It makes no sense, but it's fun to watch:
