How do we get young people through school? Seems like the wrong question. How can we make learning authentic, interesting and meaningful? Instead of getting kids through school, we need to look at education and figure out how we teach those who learn differently, whose interests do not include y=mx+b.

In the meantime, a school in Kent, Washington called iGrad is getting students through school in a very efficient process. Find out what credits these students need and put them on a track to finish. Practical.

Hopefully, we can give this population of young people the attention they deserve. While we have changed how we deliver babies, cook food, and shop, we continue to educate as we did 100 years ago. We need to change. Until then, iGrad is graduating students into hopeful futures.

(S-R archive photo)

 

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