Chapter ten was all about the ways teachers can help kids continue to learn outside of the normal, 7:30 to 2:00, school day. Sometimes it’s these extra things that help kids stay interested in school. The part of this last chapter that really got me was the part that talked about arranging for internships for students.
This popped out to me because of where I come from. I am from a small town in southern Maine that is really lacking money, and many of the native kids have never considered going to college. For many of these graduating from high school is an amazing feat in itself. Internships and vocational programs are what kept many of these kids, some of my best friends, in school. They got to do things that were relevant to them since they knew they weren’t going to go to college. They got to go learn their trade, be it lobstering, working on cars, or carpentry. It really didn’t matter, but they liked that it was something that was actually going to be helpful when their time came to make a living, this is so important for those kids.
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