Eyepatches and English homework

826 Valencia is an inspiring pirate supply shop that tutors on the side. It’s not just inspiring that this idea has spread and helped tons of schools and students. The most inspiring part is that it is kids taking charge of their education; kids want to learn and succeed outside of school. I think projects like this are the key to encouraging success. The one on one help really helps kids out, and like Dave Eggers says, it takes too much time to give each child one on one help. Fortunately, he has helped. Kids can go and talk with one person about their own life. They can sit down and work through their own ideas with someone who is dedicated to them. I think this idea is so great because when kids feel important and someone makes them feel like they matter- they want to succeed. The tutors fill them with confidence to succeed. In public school systems its’ inevitable that the kids are going to feel lost and feel like their teacher doesn’t have time for just them. I know personally that in class it is really hard to feel like my teachers are trying to help me learn. Which makes sense, they have an entire class to teach and then other classes and the students just pile up. The problem is not that the teachers don’t care; it’s that there simply is not enough time to dedicate personal time with every single kid. It is very easy for students to just quietly float by struggling or not struggling. This free tutoring idea makes kids feel important and feel like they can be smart. This kind of support is really important for kids. Kids need to be taught that they can mess up, they are still smart if they get tutored and they need to know they are worthy of someone else’s time. Way to often kids just give up and are no longer motivated because the teacher just gives them bad grades and they think they are worthless. This idea helps change that. Kids now have more motivation to get help

This kind of education is exactly what Pink talks about. He says things to be more creative. To me, this is such a different idea. The design is different- kids are doing English homework in a pirate supply shop. How crazy right? This whole volunteer-based, loose, easygoing way of helping kids is new and different. It makes people laugh and feel inspired to help the youth around them. Its’ empathetic in the sense that kids are benefiting and growing as writers. Now notice how its’ all about the kids. These adults have this revolutionary idea that benefits the kids which brings the community together. This is what is so important. This whole idea could not work without the children, and when they feel important and are being supported in their education they want to work harder and succeed. They get that curious fire going in them which leads to questions which leads to learning. These kids are motivated simply to learn. This is the future; the desire to learn increased in children. If schools can keep that fire alive the world will go in an innovative and creative direction. If every child can be encouraged to use their strengths to be the best they can be the world will take unique paths as these kids grow up. The future will be fun, bright and creative but only if the children are brought up being taught that they are wonderful how they are and they can change the world; and they can change it in their own way because they are their own person.