My Soar Experience By: Ivan Allen

         Soar to me has been very interesting. One thing is that since I'm really outdoorsy it "kills two birds with one stone," because I get to be outdoors whille getting all my credits for school. That makes both me and my parents really happy because I get to do what I want to while my parents get to see their kid doing well in school, maybe not with Harvard kind of grades but enough to know that their kid will have many choices in what they do in life.

                     What I've been able to notice is that it has been good both academically and socially for kids like me with ADD, ADHD, Autism and so on because the recruiting devision of SOAR has hired staff that are both the right kind of strict and also in the mood for the kids to solve the problem themselves which can be a life changer (in a good way) for some of the sudents/campers here. So when we come back home and/or go back to the traditional school system we will have improved. I couldn't tell you exactly by how much but friends and family would be able to tell.

               If I were to try to get you to see my point of coming to SOAR, it is all about nature, becoming better socially/academically and being more selfless which almost any typical school would be hard pressed to accomplish in the time you are here at SOAR. Most schools typically don't give you all the classes you have here like handling your own money and such. Most schools may have as electives and you're usually only allowed to do 2 or 3 electives a semester while here we get all the required credits and get credits for 5 or 6 so called electives mandatorally per semester, like money logistics/general logistics, PE, Life Skills and many more.

                To finish up my point, Soar for some semesters in Key West for example, we get to see street performers while we do a prompt about it and that is another english grade in the gradebook which gets parents happy of  a probable A while we get to experience a memerizing experience.

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