Brian Dorsey
The simple task of handwriting is something I dread. It ruined most of my schooling. When I was dropped off late with a note in kindergarten I would stall by going to the water fountain and the bathroom on my way from the front door to class to shave a minute or two off class time. Because of my inability to tell time, recognize colors and behave in the classroom I attended kindergarten at Most Precious Blood catholic school twice. By the time I was in third grade the solution to my handwriting problem was to spend all my time at recess and after school forming every letter painfully slow. After that atrocious year I thought deeply about the education system and decided that school really didn’t matter until high school, because the letter grades aren’t recorded until then. I just barely scraped by so my parents and teachers wouldn’t give me much trouble. My freshman year started out really well but I soon decided that if a community college and Harvard could both get me a degree, why break my back to get a high G.P.A? So I continued to scrap by for a while. To make a long story short I made countless bad choices and ended my freshman year with a zero point five G.P.A. and very depressed.
I was going to drop out and scrape by on minimum wage at a minimum age but my mom wouldn’t have it. She bargained me into shadowing D.A. by letting me ditch normal high school. I was resistant at first but the small size and instantly friendly people started to grow on me. I did the required applications and decided that if I could type everything on a lap top school would only be kind of lame and not intensely dreadful.
Now that I’ve gone to Denver Academy for almost a year I really enjoy the school. Even though there’s a dress code and off campus restrictions it’s a great place to be. They’re not trying to push everyone through the grinder but figuring out how everyone learns and helping them using that style. At the public schools I’ve been to everyone writes everything but final copies out by hand whereas I can type everything at D.A. I’m glad I'm here.
With today’s technology people can do amazing things like write a book as a classroom assignment. My generation and I grew up today’s technology. What people don’t understand is we are all one group of people even though generations have different beliefs. What Xers and baby bombers need to do to understand us is to understand how we grew up. Technology has shaped all our lives. In a way we are all the millennial generation because we all live with technology. This makes the world able to communicate and find out almost everything we want to know. People are no longer blinded by what there parents tell them we are also more open to new Ideas as a generation. In my life time the first black president was elected and inn some states gay marriage is legal. It’s a morbid thought but by the time the people born between 1980 and 2000 are the majority of the population and change the laws many baby boomers will be dead so they shouldn’t worry about the future. All generations should strive to understand each other.