Blog 2

My experiences at this school have been quite a blur actually, I tend to let semi-important events slip away. As for the school experience itself, it's the typical "everyone wants to prove they're better than everyone else" -esque hierarchy. The best way to combat it is to not be involved because you'll drain yourself trying. As stated in the previous blog, I'm trying to become, in essence, a useless eye-witness. I don't know anyone, I don't know anything about anything. This strategy can prove to be most advantageous in the long run. 

The Maker's Space was something of an oddity among public schools. I see what it's trying to do, and I respect and support the effort. The whole idea behind the Maker's Space, according to Wheeler, is,"Why buy things when you can make them yourself?" That's a good philosophy and all, but considering the lack of skill a student has and the cost of labor accumulated by all of us struggling to use power tools, the cost of all that tends to completely eclipse the cost of the actual thing we're trying to build, which is pretty funny to me. Hopefully, we will eventually be able to use the tools efficiently so the whole philosophy is actually canon and registers to the situation. Though we are essentially "building" the experience feels processed, planned, and plastic. We're running through a template they laid out. By the same token, I have no right to complain considering none of us know what we're doing. So it's an odd dynamic I suppose. You want the kids to do it, but you don't want anyone's head to get chopped off. Good luck, Staff.