{"id":27580,"date":"2012-03-07T12:21:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T17:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=27580"},"modified":"2012-03-07T12:23:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T17:23:31","slug":"if-children-in-the-united-states-could-switching-learning-placesenvironments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/03\/07\/if-children-in-the-united-states-could-switching-learning-placesenvironments\/","title":{"rendered":"If children in the United States could switching learning places\/environments&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">A friend of mine is in Nigeria and I wanted to post an excerpt of one of his updates:<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">We visited the Reformed Combined Secondary School project and met with the leadership to review progress at the school. \u00a0Over 150 students are at the school during its second year and many more are expected next year. \u00a0The school has unbelievable challenges but the students are eager to learn and the Alumni supporters and churches have been working so hard to build the school. \u00a0This is a boarding school and the conditions are very overcrowded. \u00a0There is no place for a cafeteria and yet the kids were so exuberant and enthusiastic about their school. \u00a0There are additional classrooms being built today and new dorms will be starting soon. \u00a0The staff and school board don&#8217;t know exactly how they will make it but they could only tell us how they saw God providing. \u00a0The kids had been going about 1\/4 mile to get water for every need, there had just been a successful borehole drilled with plenty of water. \u00a0Within a few weeks a new water tank will be installed and the distribution system will be built. \u00a0They were so excited that after a year and a half they won&#8217;t have to spend the time walking for water and will be able to spend more time on studies. \u00a0To that end there was also a generator being hooked up so the children could study at night. \u00a0Again, they have been working for 18 months without any way to study after 7 pm other than a few candles. \u00a0Any one of these circumstances would seem impossible to work around, yet the kids think little of it. \u00a0 The most encouraging part is that the leadership of the school consists of two tribes that have a history of fighting each other. \u00a0They have come together for the sake of this small Christian school and have committed themselves to making a go of it against the odds. \u00a0The project has been largely funded by local donations. \u00a0We are working as advisors and resource people for the school.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I wonder how this would affect children in the United States if they switched places\/environments for a while with those children in Nigeria&#8230;?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: A friend of mine is in Nigeria and I wanted to post an excerpt of one of his updates: We visited the Reformed Combined Secondary School project and met with the leadership to review progress at the school. \u00a0Over 150 students are at the school during its second year and many more are 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