What I Would Change About Public School

  I feel so sorry for the poor soul who must take on the task of sitting next to me in chemistry class. I tap my fingers, shake my legs, bang my head against my desk, and make weird noises under my breath which seem to rise out of my stomach like my body is infested with invisible spirits that I have no control over. I become a completely different person, and this person happens to be SO annoying, because I am SO bored. And its not just chemistry, the same thing has happened to me in basically every science or math class I've taken since middle school, and unsurprisingly my grades in those classes have been, ummmmm... let's just say substandard.
  I know I'm not the only kid who has this problem and I think the way to hold hyperactive students attention for more than two seconds is hands on activity. The times I notice myself picking up information in these classes is during the experiments, where I am actually seeing what I'm supposed to be learning first hand. It gets me out of my desk and allows me to move around keeping me in a much more productive state of mind than the catatonic trance I usually feel while staring at a board with my eyes out of focus for ninety minutes.
  Finding ways to work more hands activities into the curriculum would make class more enjoyable, which by my experience means it would make it much easier to learn.