Reading the World

Teaching kids to love reading and love others

What we read greatly impacts how we view the world. It teaches us how to interact with people, how to solve problems, and how to become our own person. When we are exposed to literature that teaches the value of people, we become more empathetic. With the imminent increase of climate migration fast approaching, we much teach future generations how to respect our international brothers and sisters.

We have two goals. 

1. Teach kids value reading 

2. Teach kids to value all people regardless of where they come from 

We plan to accomplish this by filling every classroom with three books about immigrants for kids to have access to. The education system is divided into four groups, lower elementary (k-2), upper elementary (3-5), junior high (middle school), and senior high (high school). Each section will get three selected books to be put in each classroom. 

We will start this experiment with three schools from Ann Arbor Public Schools. 

Eberwhite Elementary: 

Lower Elementary – Eberwhite has nine lower elementary classes. This means 27 books will need to be purchased in total. This comes out at $1,452.33. 

Upper Elementary – Eberwhite has eight upper elementary classes. This means 24 books will need to be purchased in total. This comes out at $635.52 

Slauson Middle School: 

Since students travel between classrooms, not every classroom will have a book. Instead, the amount of books going to the school library will be based on the amount of English teachers. Slauson has six English teachers. This means 18 books will need to be purchased. This comes out at $467.46. 

Pioneer High School: 

Since students travel between classrooms, not every classroom will have a book. Instead, the amount of books going to the school library will be based on the amount of English teachers. Pioneer has seven English teachers. This means 21 books will need to be purchased. This comes out to $574.56. 

With a budget of only $3,200, we can make this work in these three schools. We will speak to the teachers about any changes they see in the students over the years after these books enter the classrooms. From there, we can expand to the rest of Ann Arbor Public Schools. After this, we can determine how to expand to the rest of the country. 

Elementary:

There are 19 elementary schools in the Ann Arbor Public Schools District. This means $39,669.15 will be needed for every elementary school in Ann Arbor Public Schools.

Junior High:

There are five middle schools in the Ann Arbor Public Schools District. This means $2,337.30 will be needed for every middle school in Ann Arbor Public Schools.

Senior High:

There are four high schools in the Ann Arbor Public Schools District. This means $2,298.24 will be needed for every high school in Ann Arbor Public Schools.

With a budget of $45,000, we will have more than enough to put these books in every school in the Ann Arbor Public Schools District. The current budget for education in Michigan is $21.4 billion.

Adding these books to our school's library's will help our society respect the people on our planet. As climate migration increase, recognizing the humanity in this migrants will greatly help our world.