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The Next Generation: Our Kids, Our Community
Community Forums
Juneau Douglas High School Students
February 22, 2007
Question #1:
Describe the learning environment that you don’t want in the high schools:
Teachers not interacting with students and not a whole lot of textbooks. Always being in a desk.
Boring classes—like always doing worksheets and reading out of the textbook.
A boring learning environment. I believe kids have to be interested in what they’re doing, especially with school. If someone isn’t interested or the school doesn’t have fun activities, people may be more included to go find other things that will interest them. NO SPLITTING UP the teams! Rivalry in a small town would be stupid and possibly dangerous. We won’t have enough people to be on the teams or enough good players, so our teams wouldn’t do as well as we do or can if we stay as one.
I wouldn’t like doing a lot in textbooks stuff and having mean teachers.
Fun environment.
I don’t want to see an environment where all the teacher does is talk. I hope there is a lot of hands on learning. I think students tend to zone out and lose focus when they aren’t doing anything but listening.
I don’t want to move to the new high school because it is easy for my family to come to Juneau High School.
Textbooks and boring classes.
Inadequate teachers and only sections of Juneau’s teens, i.e., only the valley kids. Old school and boring methods of teaching. For the sports teams to all be split up. NO CLOSED CAMPS PLEASE!!
I wouldn’t want to see two different sports teams or extra curricular activities. It would cause too many fights and a ton of high school drama/rivalry…I don’t want a ton of textbook use, or carrying textbooks home→ school→ home. No closed campus. Want one school, two campuses.
I would not like to see two different sports teams. It would cause way too many fights and wars between both school. Too much competition.
I hate it when teachers don’t speak proper English so you can’t understand what they are saying.
No text books.
Bullying, abuse, harassment. More hands on things. Teachers needing to watch out for their students and abuse. No closed campus. No textbooks. Making the class fun and interesting. More support for drugs and alcohol. Less requirements. Mean teacher, boring teachers.
I want less textbooks.
Negative and discriminating. Close campus. Survival of the fittest. Bad teachers. Lots of textbooks and working out of the books all the time. Boring. Two teams. Not interesting classes.
I don’t want to see that PE is a requirement. And rude teachers that can’t have fun while teaching. Boring classes. CLOSED CAMPUS!!!
Mean teachers, uptight administrators. Teachers who don’t care to want to see students graduate or 2 sports teams. Closed campus.
To only have 9 7 10 grades in one school and the rest in the other.
I don’t want to see a learning environment with little or no hands-on activities. My physical science class is like that, and it’s no fun. That is one of the reasons I’m in a hurry to get into biology, cause I’ve heard that the biology courses include a high level of physical learning.
I don’t want school to teach only the majority of student of the school.
P.E. requirements.
Less projects. Fights.
I don’t want to see any graffiti.
Drugs. Violence.
Labeling.
Bullies.
I don’t want to see cops, drugs and alcohol, gangs.
No uniforms. No drugs.
I don’t want to see fighting, bullying, drugs.
I want to not see cops, fighting, bullies.
Less homework so kids can live their life. Better security in the parking lot.
Get rid of the district [internet] filter (censorship). No uniforms.
Fights.
Schoolwork. No hoodies.
Homework.
Violence, cops, drugs, bullies, blocked uniforms, underdressed girls.
Uniforms, fights, uncool teachers (strict), not good lunch food, no homework, counselors that don’t know what they are saying, cops, Internet filters, locker raids, people that dress badly, small parking.
I don’t want to see a learning environment that only caters to the majority group!
Teachers on a power trip who think they’re better than us because we’re kids and give us meaningless orders just because they think they can.
I don’t want to see unqualified teachers or a very disconnected student body. I don’t want to see students who feel discriminated by teachers or other adults. I don’t want to see the student body segregated by: race, class, or anything. We should all mesh.
I don’t want to see kids dropping out and skipping. I also don’t want to see insane teachers who scare you when you try to ask them a question. No discrimination against gender, race or class.
I don’t want to see unqualified teachers who don’t know what they are doing or teachers that think they are better than the students because they are older. I don’t want to see teachers that yell at students for no reason and insist that the student did something they didn’t.
Crazy chaos, teachers who can’t teach. Crowded classes and halls.
I don’t want to see an environment of students to feel unsuccessful or left out. Unqualified teachers. Where it’s all out work and no fun. Uncontrolled violence or a “mean girls” environment. Mean Girls is a movie. Or huge class size. Or students dropping out.
I do not want to see teachers who lecture and make a learning dull and boring. I do not want to see opinion teachers who are not flexible, or sexist, or racists. Teachers who are just there because they have been there for a long time. I also do not want to see segregation.
Racism, drugs, closed campus.
Not classes of 50, but of 20 people. We need good teachers.
I don’t want to have our high school with just art classes and one with academic classes.
I have no preference.
Large classes, few teachers. Small subject choice. Having teachers shuttle between the schools. Closed campus. Cafeteria/auditorium thing. Nasty cafeteria.
I don’t want to see a divided community. I don’t want to see the same amount of teachers per student.
Racism, large classes, few choices, and closed campus.
Crowded classrooms, a lot of books to carry, even homework assignments (between advanced and normal).
Teachers that don’t really teach.
Racism. Biased, liberal teachers. Secular progressive thinking. Only 9/10 graders.
I don’t want to see an environment that makes kids feel unwelcomed or unsafe. An environment that is divided.
An interpersonal learning environment between teachers and students. Teachers should be ADVISORS, not counselors, on how to live your life (with all due respect to teachers).
No racism and bullying. Mean vice principals. I don’t want to see lots of students.
I don’t want to see any uniforms.
The one in which you are constantly saved and overworked. The one in which you have no free time or fun.
A chaotic anarchy or the teacher has absolute power over the 50 kids crammed into one classroom. No closed campus.
Not to have distractions such as a loud highway and stuff.
Teachers that don’t care about their jobs or about kids. I also don’t want to separate the grades into two schools. It seems rather pointless, and also if the 9th and 10th graders don’t get used to the older students, then they won’t be able to get along.
Unorganized freedom of speech, where nothing gets done.
I don’t want to see teachers that discriminate or show favoritism.
Don’t want to see negative attitudes and hostility.
I don’t want to have a boring one, but sadly, that is what we have.
Teachers who you don’t want to ask questions to.
There should be comfortable chairs in the new high school and also the drama, choir, sports teams, etc. should be kept together. No closed campus!
The rule with no music allowed during individual working in certain classes. To not be told not to eat in class.
I seriously want an off-campus lunch since I live close to where the school’s going to be. NO CLOSED CAMPUS!
I do not want to be told I can’t eat in class. I want to be able to listen to music when individual learning. Be able to have ree time every now and then.
Closed campus lunch. Rules restricting us from showing our personalities (i.e. no hoods, no hats).
I don’t want a low variety of food that is provided. I don’t want to see graffiti.
No closed campus for juniors and seniors.
I don’t want homework; studies show that schools who do not assign homework have a higher GPA average.
Don’t want closed campus. Want off campus.
In a high school, I don’t want it to have a closed campus. It shouldn’t start too early. No mean teachers.
Dropouts/slackers walking around in the hallways or on the facility. Don’t like zero-tolerance policy.
Teachers who don’t know how to teach, or gross, moldy classrooms like Marie Drake.
I don’t want to walk outside when it is 10 degrees out so I can get to my class.
I don’t want to have students getting frustrated with the teachers because the teachers cannot get to all of the students in the time they have.
I’m sick of teachers telling me I’m not going to college. Or telling me I’m only setting myself up to fail, even when my grades are above average. GET BETTER TEACHERS. I’m tired of being doubted.
I don’t want large amounts of kids in classrooms. I don’t want closed campus. Division of students should be choice based. I don’t want the classes to be COLD like they are now.
I don’t want to see teachers “favoritizing” a student and singling out people. No boundaries, do closed campus, ability to park where ever, share campuses for sports (one sports team).
I don’t want to see teachers without patience, and putting kids down. I don’t want to see a huge place with t large amount of kids. I don’t want to see kids who have gone to JDHS and want to stay at JDHS to have to leave.
A healthy lunch program. More windows.
No closed campus. That’s one of the things kids look forward to when they come to high school.
No closed campus. Pointless work in class. No far away parking.
No closed campus.
Don’t want a closed campus. Don’t want lunch to be shorter than one hour. Don’t want homework. i.e., longer class periods so we can do stuff in class. No more than 8 periods.
I don’t want a closed campus. I don’t want teachers who aren’t open minded and consider what we think or have to say. I don’t want teachers who pry into private things. I don’t want limited student parking or short lunch periods.
I don’t want the new high school. Better teachers.
Question #2:
Describe the learning environment that you do want in the high schools:
Large parking, good food, latex free gloves (nurse), coffee stands, nice people, cool teachers, making school more interesting, field trips, support groups for teens ( pregnant teens, smokers, etc…), class varieties, less paper work for parents, a class for future parents (each teen should know how to take care of children), go to whatever class you want to go to.
I would like to see teachers that take tie to set up a community where students feel comfortable and that they belong.
Boxing club.
Need nicer teachers. Daycare for teen moms. Alaska Amber sweatshirts allowed. Pick what classes we want.
Pick which classes we want to go to everyday. Bring friends to school. Teens who have kids should be able to bring them to school. Sleeping period.
I want schools to teach all minorities and individuals and better programs for the mentally ill and learning disabilities.
Class on animals—helping baby animals that need help—feed, socialize, and raise them.
A more relaxed dress code. Better computers. Less parental consent.
I want to see more vending machines.
I want to see nice teachers.
We need better lunches at school.
More teachers that help students with their homework like learning center. We should have 2 or 3 learning centers in one school.
More teachers that speak two languages.
Teachers to have fun in class—not a boring class. Class notes that have blank words you can fill-in. Going through it with teacher so you don’t write all day and hands are tired. New textbooks. A better food court (Chinese food, Taco Bell).
An indoor football and soccer field for when it’s too cold outside, and no notes in class.
A class for skiing and snowboarding called Alpine Club.
An outdoor campus.
A better food court (Taco Bell).
More class options (more specifically, more world languages).
Where teachers/administrators truly care about students graduating. Laid back. No rules just for power—pointless rules. Open campus.
Good teachers and fun classes.
I’d like to see a learning environment with lots of hands-on activities and “extra curricular” opportunities such as clubs or competitions. I’d like to see a high number of NOSB-style groups, too. Teach and media classes are a good idea, too. Also a lonber lunch period. Plus open campus.
I hope to see a lot of different, interesting classes that aren’t offered in the current high school. A larger variety of art, drama, and business classes. I think it’s important to offer a variety of classes for each subject because it will better prepare students for what they want to study in college and ultimately, make a career out of it.
Update computers. Fun teachers and a technology class. Lap tops like the alternative high school.
I want to see teachers who are enthusiastic about their subject and more hands-on classes. I also think we should have more counselors to students.
I want to see family health class at the new high school. I want to see child development class at the new school. I want to see a school store at the new high school. I want to see a new food court at the new school.
I WANT to see good, fun, experimental teachers who aren’t afraid to take chances and embarrass themselves for the sake of our education. I also want to see a hip-hop dance class, or a class period dedicated to our extra curricular activities, i.e.,, dance team, cheerleading, basketball, open campus. Don’ you wish you knew.
Open campus, better lunchroom food. Once school with two campuses, our own choice on which school we go to…
Teachers interacting with students. Having help for students at all times. Sitting in desks, but also moving around. Less homework and more school work. A controlled environment for students to be in during school at all times. Having teachers that care about students and their needs. The whole school interacting with each other (teacher and students).
Getting out into the community for labs and other sort of hands on activities. It would be very fun and kids would look forward to it. Doing physical activities is good for students and there are many places to go in Juneau to walk or hike. Do experiments and just learn further, rather than always staying in the classroom.
Teachers really teaching something and less homework and good teachers and fun classes.
Everyone gets along at both schools. Fun classes. Open campus. Different classes at both schools, but have some classes the same. Offer more classes.
An environment without the science fair. Nobody should have that much pressure.
Teachers who treat you like equals and don’t assign busy work and actually like kids. Off campus lunch. No more cops patrolling the halls. More classes allow ipods.
Small classes. Off campus lunch. Variety of classes. Sign language as one offered in the school as a language to get into a good college. Show choir offered again. Teachers
Teachers who are good with people. More after school activities and sports.
A more individual student focus for each classroom. The teachers know every student very well and they call on them and check up on them to make sure that they aren’t ignored. Students will be confronted about skipping and will be helped by teachers that care. Safe place with more personal teaching.
Interesting classes. Safe environment. Better variety of classes.
Fun teachers that are easy to approach for help and are encouraging to all students. Teachers that can control the classroom.
Smaller classes. No more science fair projects. Language classes more. I want to see an environment where students feel safe, where it is balanced between work and fun. I want to see every student begin able to get help on school work, life, whatever it is they need. I want to see a principal and teacher who wants to try to get to know all their students. Interesting classes. Less stressed. Qualified teachers.
A nearly stress free environment, not so many stressful projects. More art, acting, dance, and fun! Classes that are relaxing, but also helpful. Qualified teachers. Family-like community—free of cliques and discrimination. Smaller classes—passion for teaching AND learning.
I want to see teacher and student interaction, more hands on activities to keep kids more attentive in school, so you want to learn. I want to see smaller class sizes and communities. Students feel like they know each other. I want to see more programs that students can be involved in. I want to see more choices and options for students and the importance to show up for class.
Good 400-600 seat auditorium. Small classes (20 students). Cafeteria with GOOD food. Maybe instead of having new cooks making the same food every day, make better, healthier, interesting food, with a cooking class and teacher recommendation perquisite. Longer periods and shuttle between schools for greatest amount of choice. Start later, maybe run longer? Maybe?
I want to see edible foods in the cafeteria. A student teacher bond. Challenging classes. Enthusiastic teachers, qualified teachers. More counselors. A smaller student:teacher ratio.
I want to see an education that prepares students for the real world (without posting to be such), and does not confine students in classrooms and leave them to TALK about the world.
I want to have off-campus lunches, homework evened out between classes, transportation between the schools, choice of who goes to what school.
Open campus, one sports team, lots of classes.
I want to see only one sports team, not two. I want better or more food served at lunch. Open campus, more teachers, and less students at each school. New name for high school.
Small classes, more choices, open campus, start later.
Off campus lunch.
We want to see [Tecquilla] Taco Bell.
Traditional values. More business classes. Art, drama and own. Business valley. Same sports team.
No Racism, non-discrimination, good teaching, positive environment, off campus, longer lunch period.
No preference.
I want to see people having a choice between which high school they want to go to.
I want to see the same classes offered at both schools. I want a wide variety of classes offered. I want school to start later.
One in which if you reach out, you won’t get your head bitten off. One in which you aren’t sitting in desks all day.
A better orchestra program, actually all fine arts… More Socratic seminars. Really relaxed. Open campus. Choreography. Fieldwork.
An environment where you spend the least time in your desks and where the lessons have something like hands on or a field trip.
Activity (not do just sit and do work). To have different classes, not the same thing every day.
Something exciting, where we mix it up a bit now and then. I want to have fun learning.
More interaction between students and teachers. More out of class learning.
Students are more involved in what’s happening instead of being lectured.
Teachers that want to be there and really care about the subject. Fun without being unproductive.
I think that teachers should be assigned schools and student choose what school to go to based on the teachers (i.e., one school to have advanced teachers and the other regular). That if you start at JDHS, end at JDHS. Just put freshmen in new high school and take four years to fill it.
Can get out of a math class if it’s too hard and go to an easier one, but get the same credit. Hands-on learning. Cheaper food. Field trips!! Start later. Less required classes. Choose which school.
Better teachers. Less homework. Bigger classrooms. Less credit.
I want less required classes—there’s not enough time in the day to take classes you’d LIKE to take.
Nice, bubbly teachers. New techniques. Teachers who act like they care. Off campus. Long lunch periods each day. More field trips.
I want a choice on which school to go to. More field trips.
Nice new equipment. Good teachers. More field trips.
Less homework. We have lives of our own. We’d like to live, not spend it doing work we’ll probably never use again anyway. Family…friends…sports…jobs…
I want to see students more awake. Later school hours. I also want to see an enforced dress code, not short skirts or flashy clothing.
I want math to be a pathway for people that are interested in it, not a required class. Know the basics and move on.
I want less credits to pass, not that much credits.
I think there should be two teams.
I want to see a healthier lunch program and more activities for all students to get something geared for all involved. More motivational speakers at assemblies. More assemblies to promote spirit.
There should be the same extra curricular options as JDHS, with the exception of swim/dive team.
Less credits needed for graduation.
Less homework. We have lives too!
I would like to see more one-on-one student/teacher interaction; smaller classes. I would like to see Alaska History not be a required credit for students.
Choose what class you want to go to and when. Elevators not only for injured people, but for everybody. Moving walkways (like in the airports). More field trips.
I want to see teachers that respect us. I want to get to know our teachers better. The classes are more fun when you have a relationship with the teacher.
Field trips. More class options.
More field equipment. More class choices. More food. More out of school activities. More school equipment. More time to work on homework in class.
I want to see more choices. I want to see more of Juneau, like field trips. More classes.
More hands on. Fewer students in class. Better seats than plastic ones. More elective classes to get a feeling on what’s out there for us. More and better technology in classrooms.
I want to see more opportunities to play guitars in class after the lesson. More music, more people with good hobbies. Awesome teachers. More movies in class opportunities.
I want all short classes, not long classes. I want the p.e. classes to be less running and more sport playing. I want different requirements to graduate.
Question #3:
Describe yourself (qualities, skills, abilities, etc.) when you graduate from high school:
I want to travel, be able to go to a college of my choice. Have caring friends. Drug free. Good job opportunities. Something that has to do with my likes and academics.
I should have a well rounded sense of what I want to do with music, English, math, and language skills.
I should know better math skills. Better guitar skills and money management.
Know what you’re doing with students.
Be able to have learned what you wanted to, be able to have skills you KNOW you’ll use.
Good with technology (audio) stuff, and better at music.
Math skills. Better basketball skills.
I think it all depends on what you’re interested in. You should have the skills and abilities everyone individually wants.
You should be able to pick required classes based on what you want to do after high school. (i.e., take less literature classes if you want ot study math or science.)
Three years of math. At least one year of language. Know how to cook. Computer skills.
To communicate, be independent, aware of current events and care about them. Be more open to different lifestyles, know how to work a computer, be able to express opinions in appropriate manner, and have a good idea or plan for what they want to do with their lives.
Career Skills: computer, accounting, languages, business etiquette, people skills, interviews.
Fine metal skills. Healthy lifestyle training. Basic tool use. Basic repairing of normal use items. Work management. Specific job training.
Know how to further your career. Know math, lit. Skilled in what you need for your life.
You should have some concept of reality. You should know how to balance a checkbook and write a resume.
You should have learned the basics of math, science, English, history, and at least a couple of electives.
Have general skills.
Math, science, lit, public speaking.
We should have learned basic math, science, and literature. No history. I see it as unimportant.
Good mathematics, any kind of science, history, English skills. Reading, people skills.
We should have good math and writing skills because that’s what most jobs need. We should also need to know business etiquette.
I would like to be prepared for college and a life outside of Juneau.
When I graduate I want to go to college here at UAS. So I think we should better student loan rates and scholarship programs. And maybe a class that talks about a career options.
I want to learn more about family health before I graduate. When I graduate I will be done with school. I will open my own daycare after high school. I will adopt a baby.
I hope to take away from high school enough to prepare me for college and all the fields I hope to get into. I hope I will have learned enough to survive in college lasses where teaching methods are very different than those in high school.
I see myself joining the union as a welder and becoming a certified welder. But going to college first to play baseball.
When I graduate I want to learn more about family health and family changes.
I will probably have reasonable grades, good enough to get into an art school having skills to get a good job if I choose to work before or while in college. Having the ability and self reliance to travel and live comfortably (which for me doesn’t require too much perks) and where I want. I might go to a community college and get required classes that I don’t enjoy out of the way while I work and figure out what I want my profession to be and then choose where I would like to pursue my education to fit my future profession and learn how to do taxes, pay bills, etc.
Independence, be able to support myself, having confidence to go to college and get a job. Believe in myself. Prepare for college and for life. Be accepted for me and not for my success or non-success.
I want to be determined, to leave the high school. And excited to go on to college, with looking forward further into my life, trying to plan the rest of my school career.
Independent. I want to depend on myself. Make it so I still have goals and dreams and stay positive for the future because life is just beginning after high school. Know that I’m going to make mistakes always, but that they will make me the person I am in the end.
I feel that by then, I’ll have built up sufficient funding to: A) travel to the Amazon and other interesting destinations, and B) begin an “experiment” with the breeding of wild animals for tameness, so we could, like, have pet raccoons and stuff. I also don’t intend to go to college for several years after I graduate.
I want to be able to accomplish my dreams and to walk into a new world of learning and opportunities. When I graduate Im going to have more confidence, holding myself up being a successful student and go to college for my dreams. Being independent.
When I leave high school, I am going to follow my goals and get a full time job to save up for my career to get a house and get married.
Happy, proud of accomplishing everything.
CONFIDENT. I would be prepared to go through life with my head held high and proud of what I accomplished. I will look forward to college and becoming a nurse (excited) do anything that I want to do. Have children and a husband and house. Watch my children grow up.
Successful, confident, happy, have goals in life.
Successful, confident.
I would love to take care of my unborn baby. Some day go to college. Have faith that I can do anything that I have my mind set on.
Finances/taxes, confidence in speaking. Open minded and accepting.
The school-career test said that I would be a good FBI agent, so I guess that I should work on law enforcement.
Like this only taller.
Go to college with good reputation. Not trip on stage! Travel.
I’m going to want to go to UCLA and do something with dancing, acting, or music.
When I leave high school, I want to be able to get into a college and be ready for the education my professors will give me. I want to leave the school with the training and insight enough to get me into a job of my choice. I want to be ready for whatever comes my way. Many good job opportunities.
I want to be taller and I don’t want to trip on the stage! I wasn’t to get into a college that has to do with arts and animation. I’d also like to go to Japan someday.
I want to have many good job opportunities. I want to be able to get into a good college.
I’m going to get in the rade, but first I’m going to do nothing for one year.
When I walk out of high school, I want to further my education on to college and also find a good job. I want to be successful in the future.
Well, I will look more mature and ready for the rest of the world and college. I want people to see me as a friendly face, but also a professional person. I want a great education and a person who could answer questions. I want to travel the world. I want to look like I’m ready for new opportunities that come my way.
When I graduate from high school, I am going to be able to go to college or travel. I might want to join something like Peace Corps or travel the world. I want to study science, history, anything with animals.
Ethical. Knowing right from wrong. Well developed left and right brains. Well-rounded. Career smart. Enthusiastic for life. Ready.
Well educated. Well prepared for the read world. At least two inches taller.
Prepared for the academic world. Be more focused and reliable.
Taco Bell.
A diploma. College credits from AP classes. Well qualified for upper class colleges.
I want a good education and an idea of what I want to do. I want to go straight to the NBA.
I’m going to be going to be in Yale and have a good job.
A strong connection to God. Be ready for college. I want to have high ethics.
When I leave, I want to leave with the skills to help others and be taller.
Know where I’m headed, went through a lot of different classes, to be able to say that high school wasn’t a waste of time, prepared for the real world, to go where I want to.
I don’t want to change. If I do change, it might mean that I will hurt other people by this change. (I know this is a non-sequitur but worry in my personal way).
Be able to go straight into a job. Want to be prepared for the world or a good college. I want to have practical experience. A better graphic artist.
I want to be ready for college. I want to be really good with computers. I want to look back on three stress free years. I want to be able to talk to people.
I want to be able to either go to college or fall back on the music, or try to move up in some simple career.
Above all, I want to be prepared for college. And want to have an idea of how the world works.
I want to be prepared and skilled in everything so I can be prepared for anything that happens in my life.
I would like to be able to face the real world and know what I’m going up against.
I want confidence, reliability, contacts, a work ethic, and work experience that will allow me to pull a job I like and picking up while learning. I also want college success.
I want to go to college—or to school. Get a degree in theater.
Be able to go to college and get a job that I enjoy.
When you graduate you should have the skills to make an informed decision about higher education, whether it be vocational education or jumping into a job or going to college.
Mathematical skills and English skills.
When you get out of high school, you should be able to do things by yourself without your parents help. (You should be independent.) Things that people (adults) do on a normal basis. Independent skills.
Football and grades.
Independent skills.
People skills. Home economics and cooking skills.
When I leave high school, I should have good career building skills.
When I am done with high school, I am going to become a veterinarian assistant. I need a high school diploma, and in college I am going to go for four years and most likely go work at a zoo. What I need is science and biology.
Whatever skills I’ll need for the job, I’ll have.
How to manage money.
Complete at least Algebra II. Basic skills. People skills.
I want to have a sense of what I want to do in the world. Maybe have more classes on the career options. Life after high school. And more vocational programs.
When I graduate from high school, I need to know more about science, math, and writing an essay because it will help me get into college.
Be able to make strong decisions.
Operate machines.
Able to: add money. Fix a car. Make a resume for a job. Learn to negotiate to get a second hand car. Cooking skills—learn to cook for yourself. When you are buying a car from someone, then you can find out the problem, then you know how much it’s going to cost to repair.
Basic living skills for living independently.
Cooking abilities. Have responsibility, and life cycle, animal skills, butchering skills for farming. Leadership skills.
Social skills. Good education.
Question #4:
What advice to you have for making the best learning environment happen?
Choose wisely what teachers you want.
Chef and Gourmet is a required class to take.
A place where kids like coming to school, more activities that are interesting and keep kids occupied academically.
New language teachers. Little communities within the big school.
Little community within the big school. Some new language teachers.
We should have some choice.
School wide forum and tell us what you come up with.
That what you are teaching us—you should teach it well.
Keep in mind that kids have different levels of education.
Well I think teachers need to explain well what their teaching is.
More ESL (English as a Second Language).
Nobody likes homework.
To make sure that each kid feels equal and not left out.
Do onto others as you want others to do onto you. Oh, and remember we are kids and want to have fun.
That we are teenagers, so be prepared.
That every student has a say in what happens. Choices.
Make good choices.
I would advise the committee to keep in mind that the real important people are the students.
Please keep in mind that the new classes we told you are really good. And it would e great to see in the future.
Get more student input.
I think people who started at JDHS should stay here. In other words, they should just take a freshman class.
Let the kids do it, not the adults.
Make it all one school with two campuses because we wouldn’t be able to afford two sports teams. We barely afford one.
Open lunch. More class choices.
My advice for making the new high school is just that you should keep the intentions of the students in mind and what they need. Think about what this school can offer and what you think can benefit the students the most. ALL ABOUT THE STUDENTS.
To have the freshmen come from the opening year have the choice of coming in and then build up from there. They should try to make it have everything that JDHS has. Be mindful of the students.
Keep it open campus lunch. Make sure to have enough student parking.
Choice.
It doesn’t matter what school we attend because they’re all the same. They teach you everything you need to know in high school.
Less student to teacher ratio. More excited/passionate learning. Student CHOICE! Teacher support. Open campus lunch.
Make sure it is a safe and helpful environment. Find a staff that is passionate about their work and want to get to know their students. A place balanced between work and fun.
For the new high school, I would want to se many choices, a family-like community, and have excited students and teachers. I would like two separate sports teams to make more students try out and get involved. More programs.
Have the town’s theaters help plan the theater department. More teachers---AND PAY THEM.
Better teacher wages!
To let the kids and parents have a big say in things, discipline, same rules in both schools, transportation, help those who don’t have enough money to still have the same chances as those who do.
Represent the minority decisions with as much enthusiasm as you would with the majority.
One sports team. One school, two campuses.
Think.
Think about the little children.
Basics valley. Art town. Not split by grades.
Please give us choice.
Don’t split up classes.
Two campuses, one school. More teachers per student.
Don’t split up the classes! Let the students have a bigger say.
We definitely need a Taco Bell. Instigate my Taco Bell idea for sure.
I think it should just be one high school with two buildings because if it was two separate schools, they might conflict.
Open campus, one school for physical things, such as wood shop, the other for mental things, such as the fine arts. We need more and better programs.
Make it off campus lunch. Have similar rules, no Saturday School for being late. Keep metals.
A safer learning environment. Smaller class sizes with non Sadistic teachers. With Sadistic teacher in your class, sizes help. You should get a choice on which high school you go to. I shouldn’t be by grade. There will be rivalry.
Above all, get student opinion on every decision made. Do not separate the high school into grades. Give us a choice in which one we go to.
Keep the classes together, make two 9-12 schools. This should help kids biild more relationships with different people.
A good learning environment, more extra-curricular activities and more student/teacher, principal connections.
I think the new high school will just create danger, just like in those movies about high school. Also, I think the new high school should be open campus. It should start later for more rested mind.
I think that the new high school should really try to target each student’s interests, instead of the typical art, band, and drama. I hope to see a lot of clubs and organizations and classes that interest people instead of them boring them.
I really want you to have a family health class at the new high school because I love /like this class.
Don’t make off campus go away. Many kids will do what they can to either leave school for class or leave it all together. Keep asking the kids that will be going there. Not just parents at all because if they care it’s what will make their kids happy and the kids in the community happy.
I think that the new high school should focus on a different sort than this one. That way, you could have different teams with different mascots, there would be less inter-school strife.
Open campus. Why wouldn’t we have an off campus if high school is supposed to prepare you for college? Parents oppose this because they have control issues. One of the most exciting things about high school is the feeling of “freedom.” Freshmen don’t want to feel high school is not different from middle school. The committee should come to students MORE for deciding factors in this. Adults don’t think about students first.
DO NOT divide the two high schools into classes. Students should have a choice which school they want to go to (downtown or valley). Open campus is very important too. NO uniforms, because no students will want to attend the new school if that happens. More parking and swimming pool.
Open campus. Choice of school. Small classes. Healthier food.
I think there should be open campus.
Off campus. Open campus. Hoods allowed.
More high school parking for students and no boundaries for the new high school. Auto shops like over in the Marien Tech. More extra activities like Metals, building trades, and extra activities.
Ask students when it gets closer to opening the school OR use these comments we have to give the darn advice to the BOARD.
I really think the new high school should have more kids and have a fast-food like McDonalds.
OPEN CAMPUS!! Have teachers that enjoy what they are doing. Having school officials that do not abuse their power and over-react to Alaskan Amber shirts.
I think teachers should be better trained to teach.
Take a poll from students in middle school up to high school students.
Off campus classes. Going off campus for lunch. A safe, fun, crazy environment. More classes to sign up for. Good teachers and principals.
Keep your head up high and keep building the high school that I don’t get to go to. Have an open mind to everyone’s dreams.
Having the school less crowded. Open-campus. Have both schools start and end at the same time. More class coices. Not everyone has taken gym. Having long breaks and lunch.
The school should have a better stage and performance equipment for a good live band performance.
Get teachers who understand what EQ is—like they understand what a bad day is. And that we don’t feel like talking, then don’t push us!!
Have everything planned. More party days.
Class of 2010 started at JDHS; we should finish at JDHS.
Life skills.
I think students should have more choice in school.
Be more student led. More student involvement.
Have a recycling plan!!! Be environmentally smart!
Just pat attention to student input. We’re the ones who go to high school.
Give us options.
Make strict rules regarding kids that act up in class. I want controlled classes. Don’t have kids that can’t do work, dropouts, heavily handicapped, etc.
Know that we have to live in the high school.
Ask the students what they think, before you ask the community.
You should think about what us kids have in mind, what we have to say, what we want, NOT the parents.
Don’t think about what high school was like for your generation, because our generation is very different.
Think of present time.
Keep a good energy, well loved, awesome principal like we have now at JDHS. Make sure teachers want to teach what they teach and enjoy it, so they aren’t so rude and disrespectful.
Don’t get worked up. Doesn’t have to be a REALLY fancy school.
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