2/5/04

what I think about the project citizen is a very good thang for 5th grade to be doing. I am going to be talking to rev. sloss to day maybe he could help use get a new school because he even now that this school need to be re.built or need to be re.placed because he say the bath rooms are so bda that when you walk in there you can slipe on the floor cause they have linking sink and water be flowing form the siling.

I really think that this is a great thing that we are doing because it keep use out of been in the building and standing around why the ganebangre are standing in the buliding and selling drugs.

It's a good thing that my teacher have use doing this but gusse what he is not evening telling use to do this we took this big chance on are on and know we have to finsh it on are on.And we are doing a good job so far and i think we could do it and we are.

I think this is a good thing because if we make a mistack and are teacher do not tell use we have a mentor and they will give use feed back on it and tell use how we did and if it don't sound write and the will tell use if we need to make changes. And it really make my teacher happy and proud of use and ween he go to a meeten he could tell them how good we are and show them are good work.

2/6/04

rev.sloss say that this advantages is rich on are side.

What are the disadvantages of this policy?

If you don't go by the rules you will get kick out were every you at.

How might the policy be improved?

rev.sloss think the policy need to be borking.

Does it need to be replaced?

rev.sloss thinks that this school does need to be replace

what disagreements about this policy,if any our community?

rev.sloss thinks that if you put litcal proshet on the school building then we will.

Where can I or my class get more information about this problem and the different positions people take on the problem?

rev.sloss thinks we need to go to shane mave and miceal schoot and a trip to city hall.


When we interviewed Rev. Sloss I felt good and we ask him to come back and he sayed he was going to bring two more people with him that can help ues get a new school and put use in the news paper and i cant waite to i get to interviewed some on else.

2/9/04

1. When you talk to other people you need to ask them can they help us get a new school

2. When you do petition you will take a long sheet of paper and write on the fornt of it do you think we need a new school and if they say yes i will ask them to write there name on the sheet of the paper.

3. A poll is when you ask other qusetions to other people. A servey is the same as poll.

4. A edition is a person who write a story to put it an the news paper but they will get it but they just wont put it an the news paper if they do not like it.

5. A documentor is a video that shows that the school really is a dump and it could help use get are new school. So video means the same thing as documentory


6 I am interested in a poll because you can go to other class asking people do the belive that we can get a new school and maybe we can go to others school inviting them over and cheking are school out and i really like what we are doing and i hope we get a new school.

2/17/04

1. What is a petition?
   
   2. Why are we having people sign our petition?
   
   3. I felt successful with the petition becuase
   
   4. The easiest part of the petition was
   when we get to go to the class rooms.
   5.
   This was easy because
   the only thing we have to do is go to class and give them some papers for there class to file out.
   6.
   The hardest part of the petition was
   when you had to tell the kids to write down there name and where they live some did not know where the live and the maste up are sheets.
   7.
   This was hard because
   the kids where in lower grades and the did not want to listen to any body and there teacher did not have controll of them anless she yelled.
   
   8. When I was petitioning, I enjoyed
   going out and getting petitioni form friends and family merbers.
   
   9. I enjoyed it because
   it was very fun and i got to go to maney class and it was in school time.
   
   10. When I was petitioning, I disliked it
   because the groupe with miss shepard was not listen they did not late me go in and read the paper that i was about to read and the was runing the hall and runing away from her .me and kaprice did not do any of them things we were good and we listen.
   
   11. I dislike it because
   i do not dislike it only when the do not listen and start going wild.
   
   12. My next steps for petitioning are
   to still get people signature and to combany them with every body else and see how many we got.

2/19/04

1. STATEMENT: Yesterday Mr. Schultz went to the Board Members of the Constitutional Rights Foundation (CRF) to present the great things Room 405 is doing.
How does this make you feel? Why?
It make me feel good because i no i have my teacher trying to help us get a new school.

2. STATEMENT: The class was successful getting many responses to our school wide survey.
How does this make you feel? Why?
it make me feel happy because i no lots of people out there is trying to help use get a new school.

3. STATEMENT: Everyone in the class was supposed to get 125 signatures on the petition to show support. Not everybody has.
How does this make you feel? Why?
it make me feel proud because i am out there finding lots of people that want use to get a new school.

3. What can Room 405 students do to get more signatures on the petition?
we can get more from the class and more from family and from friends,

4. Do you think it is important to continue getting signatures on the petition? yes i do because i know we are good at it and we all most got a 1

5. Now that many classes have returned their surveys, what is the next step?
we have to get more people to sine are signatures.
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6. What do you think the surveys will reveal about the feelings and thoughts about the kids and teachers at Byrd Academy?
some people think we need a new school and some people think we have the same question.

7. What is going to be a good way to share the results of the survey? With the school? With the community? With the city? With the Board of Education?
To send them off and to try to get some of them to come to the school.

8. STATEMENT: Mr. Schultz combined all the students stories into a letter that was hand delivered to Rev. Jesse Jackson yesterday.
How does this make you feel? Why?
it make me feel good and to no that we have some one else thats trying to get us a new school.

9. STATEMENT: Mr. Schultz used the same letter but changed who it was made out to and gave it to all the board members at the CRF meeting yesterday and it was very well received. Some members even want to come to our school based on the invitation from the class. How does this make you feel? Why? that make me feel great and proud and when is that there comming.

10. STATEMENT: One alternative solution to our class policy will be to combine Byrd Academy with another nearby school.
How does this make you feel? Why? if it's not by jennery academy i dont feel very proud about.

11. If Byrd got combined with another school, is our fight worth it? Why? because we need a new school to because if pots start falling on us then i want to no if they are going to give us a new school.

11. I feel that I have been contributing to our cause because I have i want around and got suuvery and i got a lot of signatures and i did a lot of worrk with some people to help us get a new school.

12. Our next steps for our action plan should be
i do not no.
13. To make this more fun and interesting we should be

doing and getting more signatures doring school.

2/24/04

1. How many total people took the survey?
   271 people took the suvery .
   
   2. How many more girls took the survey than boys?
   37 more grils.
   
   3. What was the percent of girls that took the survey?
   55 was the percent.
   
   4. What was the percent of PK students that took the survey?
   6.3 was the percent.
   
   5. What was the total number of people that feel that the closets and washrooms are the biggest problems at Byrd?
   
   6. What is the sum of the number of boys that took the survey and the number of people that feel the gym is the biggest problem?
   all to gether it is 148
   
   7. What is the mode (most common answer) to the problems with Byrd?
   lunch room.
   
   8. What percent of the respondents feel that the school is fixable?
   9.6
   9. What is the percent of the total that were 5th graders who took our survey?
   11.8
   
   10. Which grade had the most impact on the survey results?
   4 grades had the most in pact.

3/24/04

To the students of room 405.

Do you realize how brave you are in fighting for what is right. Many adults do not dare voice their opinion but you all took a stand. Please don't give up the fight. Did you know that the civil rights movement in the 1960's was not just led by the adults but by the young people. One group called SNCC- Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee actually helped black people in Mississippi to win the right to vote in their state. Before the young people got involved these people weren't allowed to vote. The members of SNCC taught in a "freedom school" and helped youth and adults learn about their rights as citizens. These young people worked hard and sometimes felt like giving up but they were determined to make a difference and stand up for what was right. So stay strong, young warriors your ancestors would be very proud of you !!!

Cassandra McKay]

Dear Cassandra,
Thanks for writting and am glade that you read the article and i want you to know that you are the frist preson to write back from the artic and this mean a lot to me. noing that you care and is welling to help us get a new school well let me tell you how it look now it does not have all there doors in the grils bathroom or the boys bath rooms we have liking sinks and one of us can slip on the water and break are leg or arm. And i am proud of my self and my mother and father is to.And i think we can make this happen because look were we are now we are in the chicago news and that is a good thing and it make you proud because this is 11,and 12 years old trying to make it write in there commity.And if they belive they can do it and if they know they got some body that they know got there back then blive me they will do a good job.And i am glade that we are doing this because this is my frist time that i been in a article and it feel good cause we can get in more than an article we can get in a magzin thanks for all your time and please keep in couraging us thanks i have to go know.

3/29/04

if we do not get a new school then we will keep trying and some more things will happen good to us.

He is a meber of the board .
And he is welling to help us get a new school.

i know this because i am in the schhol every day and i can see what are the things that are wornge with the school and what is not .

4/8/04

1. Who did you interview and give a tour to yesterday?
   Yesterday we interviewed ...Mr Delgodlo.
   
   2. What was your favorite part of the interview with Mr. Delgado?
   My favorite part of the interview was ...when he said that it's not the color of your skin that makes you it's you personality.
   
   3. What was the best thing that he said to the class?
   The best thing he said to the class was...If you dont make it it dont mean you did not try and dont give up.
   
   4. Mr. Delgado explained that we all need to be better and different than our parents. What does he mean by this? dont do the same mistakes that your parents did.
   
   5. Representative Delgado was impressed with Room 405. Why?
   because he could not belive that this porject was being done by somme fith grades.
   
   6. What is Mr. Delgado's role in the community?
   He is a Representative to the state governor of spring field
   
   7. Do you believe Mr. Delgado when he says there is money for schools? Why or why not? I do belive him because he said that they got money for us but they are not going to build us a new school because they are working on tearing this building down and going to put a story in are space and they are going to put the kids that were in byrd we are going to have to go to jenner.
   
   8. What did Mr. Delgado say about different people moving into the neighborhood and how they should be treated? They should be treated right and respect.
   
   9. After the interview and tour, do you think it is possible to get a new school? Why or why not? I think it is and if we dont get one keep your head up.

6/7/04

Shaquice
Byrd Academy
June7,2004
room 405


I feel mad because we did all that work for nothing butwe leaned that you dont get every thing in live you have to work for it every body is not like your mother or father.
But we did not do this work for nothing we did it because we wanted to we decided to make a change in are school so we did we got are school nocked down but we just cant get it r built.

we did not do this by froced we did this because we thought are school was missed up so we decided to get up off are but and do somthing about it in sttied of just let are pore school site up there lokking dirty and old.

i feel made because a dont want to go to jenner i am going to blue berry and if you dont like that than go on by your way.
I am so sorry that we had to live byrd so soon i would have loved to stay here intill i got out of eight grade.

i do not want to go to jenner because it would be a lot of fight because some people would be fighting because you can look better than them and they would get made and try to fight you.

so that's why i want to keep byrd. please dont close down are school.