Tinkering School

I agree with the idea’s through the tinkering school. I believe that hands-on learning is the best kind of learning. It was shown in the video that the children are responding very well to the school and have achieved a lot. Schools today should be more similar to Tulley’s way of thinking. Instead of children sitting bored in classrooms not paying attention and learning anything, they can be interested and learn useful things that will help them later on in life. Throughout my elementary school I always had fun in art classes but would find myself to be very bored with the actual school work. I also am not a big fan of tests. No matter how much I study I still struggle with tests. Teachers should not base the students grade and how well they do in class by grading a test. When would I ever use half of the stuff  I’m tested on in real life anyways? Homework is another subject I do not agree with. Students spend eight hours a day at school. Then they go home and spend more hours studying and doing homework. I enjoy my time at home and dislike having to spend time away from my family and friends because I’m doing school work. Add in the fact that I work about thirty hours a week, I barely have time for a social life. I wish more schools were tinkering schools. Not all children are the same, and I think that many children would have benefited greatly from learning in this style. I also have worked with and tutored special education students for four years and I definitely know that so many of the children would have gotten along much easier if they had more hands-on work at school. Maybe eventually sometime in the future the tinkering school idea will catch on with more people and we will see more of them throughout the country.