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students

Student (1) High school student (Briana , 16 years old)

Question: what are pors and cons of being a student?
Answer: Some pors are that you get to learn something you wouldn't learn in home by watching T.V or reading a book on you own, you get to learn about different thing and see understand different ways to thing about them. Another pro is that you get to interact with other people. A con is that you have to wake up so early, and it seem like some of the stuff you learn you will never use again after you are out of high school . most of the time it feels like a wast of time.

Question:What do you think will make school more worth you being there?
Answer: If we learn thing that i will always be able to use, like thing i will need to learn in the really world . It will also help if high school was like college and more care based because you will have a good understanding of what you want to do in life befor you get to college, and there maybe be a chance of you wasting your money.

Question: Do you enjoy going to school?
Answer: It gives me something to do, but i don't wake up in the morning happy to go to school. It's somethin that i have to do not something that i want to do. So no i don't enjoy it but i deal with it. The part i hate the most is home work i don't understand why if i spend alday in shool why to i have to go home and do more work ?

Student (2) 1st grad student ( jorden, age 6)

Question: Do you like school?
Answer: Yes , it's fun because i get to play with my friends and go play outside after lunch, and i dont have nap time anymore because 1st grad don't have nap time only the babys.

Question: what's the best part and worst part of school?
Answer: The best part is playing with my friends and read out loud , the worst part is home work i don't like doing home work.

Student (3) college student (shaniqua age 21)

Question: Did high school help you in college?
Answer: It did and it didn't , meaning when it comes to writting papers and stuff it helped. I learned what goes into a good paper in high school so when it came to college it was very helpful. In my high school i had to sit through every long class were the teacher just talked at you that also helped me in high school. other then that it was that much of a help because some stuff from high school they just tought over and some stuff from high school was never bought up in college.

Question: What do you enjoy most about school ?
Answer: I don't really enjoy school school it's just someting i have to do to better myslef and have a good chance at have a better futuer. So I just do what i have to do. One thing i hate about school is the home work it feels like it never stops.

Non student

Mom

Question: What do you think some pro's and con's are for students?
Answer:I feel that school all together is a pro for students, it gives them a place to go and everyday. They get to learn and share new thing with their classmates. I guess one thing that maybe a con is that they go from school then home to do home work. I can understand why they don't enjoy that.

Question: When you was in high school did you think it was such a great thing?
Answer: No because no student want to be in a place were people are making them do thing that they dont want to do, but when it's over you will understand how much it helps you .

tracy
Question : Do you miss beign in school?
Answer: Yes , when i was in school i was worried free. I didn't have to worry about paying bills and things like that . All i had to worry about was coming home with good grads . then i'll be free to do what ever i wanted and i didnt have to work to have money in my pocketed .

Question: when you was in school what was the worst part?
Answer:Home work, when i was young all i wanted to do was hang out. Home work was the only thing that stoped me becuase after finishing my home work it was to late to go back out side and if i stayed out then came home to do it i would have to hear my mothers mouth.


By Interviwing the people i did i learend that, school is something that people don't want to do but they have to so they just get use to it. I also learned that the problem that everyone have with school is home work. Every one made good points, school is something he have to do to be able to promise ourselfs a better future. student think that school is a wast of time most of the time because we learning thing that we will never see again after we get out of school. Parents seem to think school is a good place for student to interact with each other as well as grow off each others thinking .

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Fascinating

* We spend more time with the people in school then the people at home.

*We are in school for so many years that we start to learn the same things over.

*peple find school to be the most important thing in life.

Powerful questions

*Why do people have so many personl problem that have nothing to do with school , inside of school ?

*Why do people try hard to fit in inside of school?

* Why do we spend so many hours inside of school then have to go home and do home work?

Ideas

*If school thought us thing we would use in every day life , school wouldnt be has bad.

*we spend to many hour in school , thats why there are so many personal problems.

*people most likly just have on groups of friends.

we spend to many hours in school and not at home . I fill I spend more time with my classmates then ii do with my mother. By the time I get home do home work it time to eat dinner and start to get ready for school the nexts day. The school feel never ending because once to get home it fill like your still at school because there is more work yu have to do. It never ends and there is very limited family time. it seems like the only time you get to have family time is on the weekends , were yu spend most of your time sleeping after the long school week.

art project follow up questions

I made my  art  project, from the view  of  a  black  boy who is  trying  his  best  to  fit  in and be  looked  at  as  cool.  What  i  wanted  to  show  is  most  people  that turns  to  skipping  school and selling  drugs  know  that what  they  are  doing  isn't right, but  they  are  more  worried  about  saving  face and  want  people to  look  at them  ass cool.  I feel those  are  people  who  will  " kill  to be cool". I wanted  to  show  what  they  will  say  if they  could  be  truthful  with  them self  as well  as  others . I wanted people  the  realize that  people  know  what  they are  doing  even though  they  won't  say  it, because  they  don't  want  to  be  seem  as they  bad  guy.

At first  I wanted  to make a  video  and  I had  a real  good idea  for  my  video.  It  just  so  happened  that  it  did not  work out  because  i  do not  know  how  to  edit a video. So I spent  a  lot  of  time  thinking  of  something  that can  be  just  as great  and also  have  a  lot  of meaning. I thought  about  doing  a  poem,  but i  wanted  to  do  a  poem  that had  a lot  of  meaning.  so I seat  at  home  and  thought about.  At  first nothing  was coming  to  me  but when  i  started to  do  something  else  and  stop  thing  so  hard  about  it  the first  few  lines  came  to  me , but  when  I want  to  put  it  on paper it  didn't  sound  as  good  has  it  did  in my  head,  but  the line  i  felt  really  good  about  was  "kill  to  be  cool".  I stayed  with  that  line  and  the  rest  of the poem  just  kind  of  worked its self out.

Making  art  does seem  cool  to me, because  i  enjoyed  doing it . I know  cool is   something  hard to  define but  to  me  cool  is want  makes  me  happy  or  what  i  enjoy doing.  Art  is  something  i enjoy  because  it allows  me  to  express  myself  using  more  then  just  words .

   

art project

Kill To Be Cool
By Brittani Carey
I want to be cool so I skip school, hang out all day like the true G’s do.
Don’t want to be broke so now I’m selling key-lows to the people using dope,
I don’t even know what this is,
I just know this white powder in my pocket , have my stacks of money multiplying.
It feels so good but I’m still not too sure of what it is,
But I know I this powder in my pocket have niggas mother’s dyeing.
I know this is wrong but I want to smooth I guess I’m a murder cause I’ll
Kill to be cool

I sag my jeans like the rappers in the videos,
That my first step to being cool.
I rock a do-rag with my fitted turned to the back, so the girls can know that I found my swag.
I go to parties more then I attend school , I won’t be walking across that stage when my friends
do , not me I won’t graduate school.
I’m too busy In the hood , I’m the type of guy white teachers talk about ,
I’m the stereotype of all black guys, they say I will;
Kill to be cool

If I can change I wouldn’t ,
I want to make my moms proud but I don’t want to be a geek , that shit can’t go down
So instead I make her cry , every night she’s on her knees asking god “why” ?
I’m a product of ever thing around me , knowing that sooner than later I’ll be dead or in jail and
that will make my mother’s heart fill and once again I’m a murder who
Kills to be cool.