Dec 2023 final TOK/life survey
optional due before Dec 15 2023
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What is your 6 word short story (of your youness)     Rohol's stories for examples = 1 No, that wasn’t my first priority. 2 I tried. I failed. I teach. 3 My greaTNESS IS WASTE D ON YOU 4 My inner darkness surpasses your darkness 5 Ideas should have sex, not me
What are your core values as a human being?  (or, what should be)
What is the main thing standing in the way of you achieving your academic potential?  
Do you feel you know how to handle (or learn from) failure, adversity, hardship, new challenges, the unexpected?
What is the most fixable problem that would most clearly aid your experience of IB at SCHS? and/or What is the most important but least publicly talked about issue/concern in IB at SCHS?
What was high school?  (or what is college for?)
How will you remember your 4 year HS run in 25 years?  What was Covid or its impact to the class of 2024 (In terms of the shape of schooling, has Covid made necessary beneficial changes to the role of tech or instructional delivery/style in your experience?)?
What was TOK?
The most useful thing you take away from TOK class? (and leave your name if you don't want to be anonymous)
What is your best piece of advice (for me or for them) for next year's TOK class? (or best advice on how to succeed in TOK Exhibition or Essay)
What is your best piece of advice about the EE paper/process for next year's group?
What piece of conventional wisdom will most people believe is false in 10 years
What is the worst piece of advice you ever got?
Once rich, do you have a moral obligation to give back?
What are the things you will have to unbuild/unwind that your grandparents and ancestors made?
If this is true for you, at what grade level did you lose your love of learning (or speak to how your relationship to learning has changed in the last 10 years)? OR At what phase/year/task of the 4 year IB program do things start to go off the rails and get to be “too much” (or the balance that led you to being a good student starts to get out of whack)?  OR 35. Have you had to face suffering/loss/failure enough in your 12 years of schooling?  or Is pain instructive?
What was the most useful course you’ve taken?
What is the 21st century skill/attribute that you feel will be most vital in the next 40 years of your life that SCHS or IB is generally worst at developing?
Is it a good time period to be alive?  OR Are you a fan of your generation (age 14-24)?
Should your IB classes deemphasize teaching towards the test/IB assessments in favor of teaching towards the IB learner profile attributes and the course skills/aims/objectives even if that means some drop in the average IB score performance (1-7) for the course?
What are the responsibilities of a parent post-HS graduation?
What are you most grateful for? (OR what are you, in retrospect, happiest your parents forced you to do)?
What do/will you most miss about childhood?
Are you optimistic or overwhelmed (or something else) about the world you find at your doorstep at graduation?
What is the gap between your desired self and you actual self?
Give 3 numbers in sequence: When does adulthood begin?  When do you desire marriage?  Kids?
What are the responsibilities of an educated citizen?  
What is your first priority in life:  a loving life, a serving life, a wealthy life, a comfortable balanced life?  OR Which priority will matter most to you: self-betterment, family, your career, to be of use/service to others, your faith (or something else)?  OR  What are the top 3 things (or unquantifiable attributes) you need to have a good life?
Are you willing to delay gratification OR suffer now for later (long-term) gain? OR  Do you have the temperament to put your head down and quietly work to improve your career for 20+ years (AND DO  YOU THINK DOING THIS IS EVEN A USEFUL ATTRIBUTE TO HAVE)?  (do you think your temperament will succeed in a professional setting?)
Should you/everyone be able to follow their passion or should you be willing to sacrifice to do a job that needs to be done (STEM, garbage picker, etc)
If you believe a culture of academic dishonesty (cheating, moral shortcuts, etc) exists at SCHS, do you  believe it can be overcome?  How?
Does mental toughness (grit, resilience, etc) primarily come through suffering (sacrifice, etc) or something else?
What is the greatest piece of advice you would give to an incoming IB senior (if you seriously wanted them to succeed)? (or what is the best piece of advice about IB you ever received from someone older/ someone else?)
What is the greatest piece of advice you would give to an incoming pre-IB freshman (if you seriously wanted them to succeed)? and/or What do you most regret about how you approached or executed your pre-IB years?
Is it better to rage against the machine from the outside or enter a possibly flawed system and change it from within (confrontation vs collaboration)?
What do you see as the main skill set you or younger IB students: 1) are missing, 2) need to work to develop, 3) most need in order to be happy and balanced and successful?
How do we become the people we are?           others questions to consider: Do you have strong views on the nuture vs nature (free will vs deterministic) debate?  How much do you know 1) who are you, 2) who were you, 3) who will you become ... & did/do you control all of these stages/questions?
At 60, would you be willing to sacrifice your wisdom for (a return to) youth?  At 18, would you sacrifice your youth to be wise?
Is it better to know or not to know?  Defend answers with wisdom/evidence gained from a TOK class/experience.  OR Will you be a lifelong learner?
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