Casey: Day 2

The second day at Casey Middle School went really well. I think that the project worked well. The kids really enjoyed looking at their pictures. We had a hard time getting the kids to write about what they liked and disliked about Casey. One girl however worked diligently and finished the project mainly all by herself. It was really cool to see the kids get more involved in the process when we took out the arial shots of the Platt site. One boy who sat their and said nothing the entire time, suddenly began asking many questions about the new school, creating a really cool plan in the end. Most the kids were very concerned with why they had to move to Platt, and what was going to happen to Casey.

I thought it was really interesting how much more mature the girls were than the boys. While the boys wrestled on the ground, the girls sat silently doing extra drawings of site possibilities. I think that some of the drawings will provide the LA students with some good ideas of what students would want to see on the site. However many of the students didn't put a lot of thought into the project and were just doing it because they were asked to. Many of the students put the relocatable's on the roof of the school, some even in the parking lot with hopes that cars would hit the relocatable. We tried to guide them as best as we could, but some just were not interested and it was almost impossible to grab their interest.

-Kaley