Team WOD
12 minute AMRAP
8 Bar Muscle-ups
60 Sit-ups
8 Rope Climbs
60 Pushups
Today I have the class 5 minutes to convene and come up with their own workout. My only 2 rules were everyone had to agree on the workout and they had to come up with a sub or scale if someone could not perform an exercise. The workout they came up with was a partner WOD with scaled movements for each exercise. If someone could not do a bar muscle up, the sub was a chest to bar pullup or a ring row.
It was a neat little exercise as it got everyone working together collaborating as a team and thinking through the entire problem. Rather than always be given instructions, I thought this was a great way to turn the table and give them the authority to be creative and work on solving a problem in a team format.
The greatest discovery any outsider could make about Camden is it's overriding response to failure: If it didn’t work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE).
Every year they pass more laws, hire more police, build more prisons, and sentence more offenders for longer periods-all without moving one inch closer to “ending” crime. If it didn’t work last year or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Every year they spend more money on schools, hoping to “fix” whatever’s wrong with them, and every year the schools remain stubbornly unfixed. Spending money didn’t work last year or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Every year they try to make the criminals go away, and every year they remain with us. We couldn’t shoehorn these criminals back into the “the mainstream” last year or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Maybe its time to TRY something DIFFERENT.
Afterall, IF Camden is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.
Much of my inspiration comes from Daniel Quinn in "Ishmael."
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