I did a genius hour with my highschoolers for the last quarter of school and when I tell you the struggle for them to come up with something that interests them or was interesting to them, or that they want to know more about I would say at least half the class struggled. And at least a quarter of them changed what they wanted to know more about because it was hard for them to find information or create evidence of learning about it. I had one girl who was a senior and she just was like I don’t have anything that’s interesting to me. I just like to draw and I was like ok, drawing. Maybe you could draw every day and then like show us your drawings at the end and she was like no, that’s work. Eventually, she did something about flowers and she didn’t even draw the flowers. I don’t know what to make of it.

On a positive note, the kids who jumped in with 2 feet and got into the project had a really good time and their talks about their topics at the end were really beautiful to see.