March 23, 2016

60 Minutes is one of our family's favorite TV shows.  It is basically a documentary on a couple different stories for each recording.  Some are boring, but there was a really cool one we saw tonight. It was about St. Benedicts Highschool.  A monk re-started the school, and he came up with a new idea.  Mostly all of the students are poor, inner city African American, Latino, or other race kids.  The whole idea of the school was to let the kids who don't get freedom at home, run the school.  They don't make all the choices, but they make most of them.  It creates a lot of responsibility and leadership skills for those kids.  I think the idea is pretty sick.  I would love to go to a school like that.  Also, all the kids refer to their friends and other peers at the school as "brothers" and they love each other in a brotherly supportive way.  As ninth graders, they have a sort of boot camp thing, which teaches the new kids how to help each other and support them when they need help.