Genius Hour Update Number 2

For the start of this class period, I was able to talk to my teacher and gain a better understanding of how to move forward with my project. He told me to think about the questions I need to ask in order to find an answer that will serve as my project. I thought about it for most of the remaining class period and I decided that at least for now, my research will be focused around why lower-class children typically attend worse schools than their upper-class counterparts and what I can do to begin to fix this problem. I think I will begin by seeing how I can help out these supposedly bad schools and/or try to get some of these kids to better schools, like charter schools or private schools. The rest of the period was spent doing research on schools in lower-income neighborhoods and reading some more posts on the sociological blogs provided to me by my teacher.