
Here at Sweeney Middle, we welcome all of our diverse students to freely choose and make their own personal decisions within reason. All of our students are responsible for their own actions and disciplined accordingly if violation to the handbook is done. To start out, we have our students pick their own classes they want to take with what teacher they want. We hand out a piece of paper that has all of the options in a particular subject and staff that teach those subjects. They are able to pick what teacher they prefer, what class in that particular subject they want, and at the time it is offered. You could say it is like how college students pick classes.
Although we welcome opinions in every subject, it is specifically in the English courses that we encourage our students to write opinionated papers. Our teachers try and accommodate with what ever book is being read, into a topic for opinion for children to express how they feel in certain issues, and give examples.
The students are always encouraged to be themselves and express how they feel. Our highly trained staff have ways of creating projects that entitles the children to incorporate themselves and what they think, into something the child sees very important and special.
