Once again, all of the Year 8s were involved in developing and trialling food stalls and running them, but then we had groups from right across the school:
kids funded through disabilities and impairments were making amazing products out of recycled timber; we had hands -
on learning, our school - based
apprenticeship parks and gardens group, selling plants and running a sausage sizzle; we had art students from Year 8 doing ceramics; we had the girls group that's run by our wellbeing team, the
kids who are a bit isolated, they produced succulents in tea cups.
As reported yesterday in Dropout Nation, the civil rights collection's data
on whether districts are providing comprehensive college - preparatory education to all of its students is flawed because it focuses
on proportionality of course participation compared to overall district enrollment; this doesn't fully reveal the extent of how few
kids — especially those from poor and minority backgrounds — are not getting the preparation they need to do well in traditional colleges, technical schools, and
apprenticeships (and ultimately, in the adult world).