Episode 11 Amazing People #1-7
We are on a trip to New Orleans. In this trip, we visited 8 organizations in education space. It's a very eye opening experience for me, and I can write a ton about it. But this blog, I would love to dedicate to the people on this trip. Day one is pretty overwhelming to me (and to everyone). The days before trip was extremely busy, leaving me no time for extra research. I have little background knowledge about education system in the US. So many things people talk about are random and don't make sense to me. For example, I know what charter school is on "the first paragraph of wikipedia" level, but I don't know why charter schools were set up, the conflicts among different types of schools, etc. So when people ask certain questions, I don't know why that matters, and so what. To sum up, that was a whole day with every minute containing sth I have no idea about. After the team went out of the first company vis