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Should kids be allowed to control what they learn, how fast they learn, or how they go about learning it? In the " let kids rule the school" article that is exactly what eight students were chosen to test out. It would be nice to learn at my own pace and choose what i want to find out. I don`t know that it would work for me or even here at the school. first of all our school is too large to do something like that and it would most likely get out of hand. i feel like it would be successful in a small group like they did. I am not sure if it would work for me because i need teachers to guide me through things so that i can be prepared to go and do the assignment they assign. even though sometimes they assign things that are at a higher level than what we should be learning or that they have even taught. If we were all put in small groups to do this, i have to wonder how many students would actually take this seriously. There is a possibility that they will end up being in the same group as their friends and might get distracted along the way or feel like they can slack off since they arent really getting graded on it. Maybe if schools were designed so that we could pick classes that would actually contribute towards our future careers not as many people would be giving up on school. some of the classes i am taking or have taken i will probably never use in my life. so if our schedules were made just for us and had what we wanted to learn then so many students wouldn`t feel the need to drop out.