DECLARATION OF LEARNING INDEPENDENCE

We, the students of Ernest Righetti High School, declare that our learning will solely be based on our independent perspective, method, and desire of what and how to learn. We also declare that our medium of handling the independent learning is Open Source Learning - a unique way to include the world around us as a united community.  We, as learners, take full responsibility to understand the material, be self motivated to work harder, and be consistent in our efforts to improve ourselves as critical readers, thinkers, and writers. We declare ourselves free from the typical school and learning environment to explore something new and different for the sake and benefit of our brighter futures.

I think that every learner has an independent way of learning. So a specific way should not be assigned to them as an assignment or a grade, requiring the student to do it, making them uncomfortable and even somewhat resistant and hesitant towards school. The atmosphere of classes should be in such a manner that students not only are unafraid to speak up and share their valuable opinions, but also enjoy while doing so. And the only way for this to be possible is for teachers to allow students, only to a certain extent of course, to use their independent learning style and combine it with the academic requirements to end up with a magnificently genius way of thinking and learning.