Hey all, so I was thinking about a topic to write about, in the category of world events, and I realized that I know nothing about current issues, and that would be exactly what I should write about. I know that I am way behind on all the current issues in the world, but I also know there are plenty of students my age, who are in the same boat. We don’t enjoy watching the news everynight, or reading the paper, even researching topics about world events in our spare time, as some of our peers do, so  we end up being behind on class discussions at times. I wish, at WO, there was a current events course. Sounds sort of immature, but if you think about, it would be a really intellectual course. The curriculum, could make it part of the class to keep up on topics around the world, that are current, do projects on the events, and have discussions based upon them. I feel that because some of us, wouldn’t do this during our spare time, or some of us, that don’t have spare time to do this, would totally be interested in joining a course like this.

   I know that as of now, WO has a World Issues course, and I am in that course, and let me just say, that we have not covered a single world issue, ( this may be because it is split between environmental studies and world issues, and our teacher happens to know more about the environment,) but I still think, that current issues, issues happening everyday around the World, would be such an interesting, and fulfilling course. It would allow us to speak intellectually about changes in the world today, and how they are impacting our lives specifically. I think it would also engage more students in groups such as students without borders. If more students were aware of some of the problems in the world, they might be more likely to want to help out with them. Just my thoughts on World Events as a whole. Feedback always welcome – peace out- jo