EVALUATION

STUDENT SEMINAR

Phoenix Alternative School
(School for Kids at Risk)

Carlsbad, New Mexico

September 24th , 1999

Evaluation of Speaker: Ave. 8.4

1 = Poor - 10 = Excellent

• He was a nice speaker. I liked when he talked about his boots.
  
  
• It was very interesting, he was up beat & enthusiastic about his presentation.
  
  
• He seemed confident, thought he wasn't exactly the best.
  
  
• He was talkative & very nice & made jokes to make it interesting.
  
  
• He was a cool guy.
  
  
• He was pretty good.
  
  
• I think the speaker was great. He got right to the point. He was a very good influence.
  
  
• He was dynamic and attention getting.
  
  
• He was interested in our dreams, not the money he made by coming here so much.
  
  
• He was a really good speaker. But I didn't feel right. To me it felt like he thought we weren't very smart.
  
  
• He was very cool & open minded about some of the things students commented on.
  
  
• Loud & told the truth.
  
  
• It was better than last year.
  
  
• He was real good and new what we felt.
  
  
• Pretty cool.
  
  
• The bomb.
  
  
• I think it was good.
  
  
• All right.
  
  
• Pretty cool.
  
  
• He was really cool.
  
  
• Very good.
  
  
• He was a very good speaker and he was very nice and cool.
  

Evaluation of program: Ave. 7.9

1 = Poor - 10 = Excellent

7, 9, 9, 7, 7, 9, 7, 9, 8, 8, 9, 5, 9, 10, 8, 6, 7, 9, 6, 10, 8, 10, 8, 10, 5, 8, 10, 8, 4, 4, 10, 8, 10, 10, 7, 10, 7, 10, 9, 6, 8, 8, 3, 5, 7, 10, 9, 10, 4, 7, 10, 5, 10, 10, 10

Comments:

• I learned if we put our heads together we could come up with a solution.
  
  
• I have learned to work together and always think of the best way for something.
  
  
• Not to set to many limits on myself or my goals and that we can take ourselves wherever we want to go.
  
  
• I have learned it takes a lot to run a bus.
  
  
• Nothing.
  
  
• Not to look at things in one way. To use your mind.
  
  
• There no limits to things.
  
  
• Always think positive and reach for your goal.
  
  
• I learned many different things at the program.
  
  
• I learned how to communicate more easy, self respect.
  
  
• That I don't need to set limits for myself.
  
  
• If you follow your dreams they can come true.
  
  
• To always chase your dream.
  
  
• The same things last year.
  
  
• Nothing.
  
  
• It showed me how companies did their work.
  
  
• That if you get enough brain power together you can do anything.
  
  
• That you should keep an open mind about the things that you do and don't let anybody or anything stand in your way of success.
  
  
• It was fun and exciting.
  
  
• How to communicate better with others.
  
  
• There are no limits.
  
  
• To open your mind because the answer your looking for mite be different from what you think I already new, I just thought I forgot. It was a good reminder.
  
  
• The skies the limit.
  
  
• Team work.
  
  
• How to build my own school. How to make my own boo-yo.
  
  
• I learned how to be a success.
  
  
• I don't remember.
  
  
• Nothing.
  
  
• How to be more creative; What my dream really was; What my favorite class was.
  
  
• How to communicate with people to build a business or make something better.
  
  
• There no limits to life.
  
  
• Give your opinions without getting in trouble.
  
  
• I learned that we the students can make a difference if we want.
  
  
• How to work as a group.
  
  
• It is really cool.
  
  
• There are no limits to life.
  
  
• I didn't learn nothing.
  
  
• How to work with others.
  
  
• That to follow your dreams, say what you feel.
  
  
• To think and work in group.
  
  
• You can do anything you want.
  
  
• About some Swat thing.
  
  
• To listen to what other people say. They are just as important as you.
  
  
• That you could do almost anything you want.
  
  
• A lot of words.
  
  
• A little bit of things.
  
  
• About opening your own business, and how to run it.
  

How do you feel the program has helped you?

• It helped me think about the future more.
  
  
• Gave me a different outlook on my school and future jobs.
  
  
• It helps in running your own bus.
  
  
• It hasn't.
  
  
• Just to think more about my future.
  
  
• I'm going to reach for my goal.
  
  
• Teach self respect.
  
  
• Helped me realize that I can do anything I want if I put my mind to it.
  
  
• It helped me learn to follow what I love to do.
  
  
• It helped me about speaking.
  
  
• It helped a little, but it is the same as last year. Saying we are going to make improvements that will never be made.
  
  
• It didn't.
  
  
• It helped me communicate more with other people.
  
  
• It's made me think of ideas for things easier.
  
  
• Personally not all that much because I already had learned most of that stuff along time Ago.
  
  
• Makes you think about school.
  
  
• It has helped me with my people skills.
  
  
• I think it will change the way teacher look at the students. We aint thugs and hoodlums.
  
  
• It makes me think more about everything.
  
  
• Great.
  
  
• Help us a lot.
  
  
• More inspiring.
  
  
• I think it helped me a lot.
  
  
• I feel the same.
  
  
• I feel like I can accomplish anything.
  
  
• It has showed they care.
  
  
• I didn't learn nothing.
  
  
• It has not.
  
  
• Say what you feel. No negatives.
  
  
• I don't feel that I did.
  
  
• It gave me more ideas.
  
  
• A little.
  
  
• All right.
  
  
• What to do in the future.
  
  

What did you like about the program? What would you change?

• The program was fun. There isn't anything I could think of that I would change.
  
  
• I liked the activities we did. I would of had it all day.
  
  
• It was dif.
  
  
• All the group work. Change nothing.
  
  
• I didn't, The subject.
  
  
• I thought it was neat cause there was actually someone to listen to us. I wouldn't change anything.
  
  
• I like everything. I don't think anything needs to change.
  
  
• I like everything.
  
  
• Most of it. Make the thing shorter.
  
  
• I did like the speaker and the program. I wouldn't change anything.
  
  
• The program was all right. I would leave it the way it is.
  
  
• I liked when we got to design our own school. I think it was perfect.
  
  
• I like how they give you the name of something and you invent it.
  
  
• The inventive exercise. Not a damn thing.
  
  
• Making our own school.
  
  
• That we got in groups and did experiments.
  
  
• I like everything, nothing should be changed.
  
  
• I like the student participation but the activity was kind of stupid because it was like something a little kid would do.
  
  
• Don't know.
  
  
• I liked the projects we had to do and I wouldn't change nothing.
  
  
• I think it was a cool idea.
  
  
• Working with others. Some of the activities I like everything. There's nothing I would change.
  
  
• I liked all of it. I wouldn't change a thing.
  
  
• I would not change anything. Learned how to work in a team.
  
  
• I liked the activity.
  
  
• Everything, Change nothing.
  
  
• I liked everything about it.
  
  
• Nothing.
  
  
• Good, Change nothing.
  
  
• Nothing.
  
  
• It was excellent.
  
  
• The classes, the teachers.
  
  
• Nothing: liked it all.
  
  
• Nothing.
  
  
• I didn't learn nothing.
  
  
• Working in groups, Change nothing.
  
  
• It's good to think.
  
  
• He let us say what we feel.
  
  
• Nothing, Make it funner.
  
  
• I wouldn't change anything.
  
  
• I liked it all.
  
  
• I probably forgot.
  
  
• Pretty neat, Change nothing.
  
  
• I liked everything so I wouldn't change anything.

Students were asked in this group to create, with no limits nor negatives, the best "Phoenix Program" they could have. The results follow:

Group A:

· Swimming pool.
· State of art gym.
· Classes about drugs
· Off campus or food court
· Cleaner and better restroom with doors on stalls.
· All work on computers.
· Sports team.
· NAP time with water bed.
· Longer time between classes.
· Weight room.
· Daycare center

Group B:

· Have everything computerized.
· No dress code.
· Teachers and staff to have respect for students and give more credit.
· Open campus.
· Restrooms to be improved
· Have cafeteria food cooked fresh.
· Have a gym.
· More school electives.
· Daycare on campus
· Remodel and improve
· Metal detectors
· Student parking
· School activities, parties, etc.

Group C:

· Every fast food place selling food at school.
· A little smoking section
· Library, a gym, more elective classes, a pool, tennis courts, track, baseball stadium, football stadium, more comfortable desks.
· Bigger school - top of the line
· Staff (smart but can relate to students)
· Bigger computer lab.
· A planetarium.
· Interactive learning (learn by participating).
· Nice restroom - clean!
· Classes at university level available.
· Bigger parking lot
· Nurses office
· More equipment - TVs, VCRs, athletic, etc.
· Bigger cafeteria.
· Waiters, waitresses, menus
· Refrigerated air conditioners.
· Daycare

Group D:

· Change location.
· Variety of lunches.
· Up to date computers.
· Bigger & nicer looking rooms.
· New Desks.
· Locks on bathroom stalls.
· Daycare.
· New Books.
· Electives for classes (Telecom, P.E.) etc.
· After school activities (sports, hobbies, club).
· More pictures in year book.
· Keep us up to date on events of high school.

Group E:

· Fast food restaurants.
· Track, football & baseball fields, basketball court, golf, tennis courts, motor cross
· Stereo room, big screen TVs
· Smoking section.
· Nursery.
· Personal tutors.
· Radio station for Phoenix only.
· Laptop computers.
· Swimming pool, weight room, gym, dressing room, boxing ring.
· Arcade.
· Art room.
· Woods, mechanic rooms, home ec., welding.
· FFA.
· Green house (Mrs. Williams) cheer leading.
· Gymnastics, bowling alley.
· Choir, band, color guards.
· Modern dance.
· Open campus.

Group D:

· PHOENIX BETTER THAN EVER.
· Gym - for P.E. activity.
· Pool - swimming for P.E.
· Up date restrooms - locks and doors.
· Cafeteria - more staff, better food because our food comes from ????
· Daycare - for girls that have kids there can be with them.
· Bus transportation for students without rides.
· Library - a place to check out books for reports.
· Bigger computer lab - more people can be there and type reports.
· Basketball court and goal - P.E. activity.
· Tables and trash cans outside - to enjoy outdoors.
· More electives - more credits.
· Science lab - science & biology experiments.
· Snack bars - so we don't have to eat cafeteria food.
· Classes - Spanish, French, home ec, photography, journalism, etc.
· Update our building.
· Better snack machines.
· School store to make own money.
· Own school year book.

Students working together in this group were asked to create with no limits or negatives the best "Phoenix Program" they could have. The results follow:

Group A:

· 3 stories with blunt dispensers in every room.
· Open campus.
· 1st floor - Non smokers whatever they do down there.
· 2nd floor - science class taught by cheech & chong, greenhouse for science, chemistry lab with cooking tools, arts & crafts room, casino lounge (dancers and bar & grill).
· 3rd floor - marketing class, shipping & packaging, Internet access.
· Senior trip - Amsterdam.
· School Slogan - Party Hardy Rock - Roll, Drink a 40 oz. & smoke a bowl.

Group B:

· Open campus.
· Cigarette breaks.
· Smoke-out shack.
· A club at lunch.
· No dress code.
· From 12 noon to 3:00
· No rules.
· No school Fridays.
· Cigarette vending machine.
· Fire the lunch lady.
· Game room.
· We pick teachers & students.
· Internet without security blocks.
· Alcohol use.
· Day care.
· New English teacher (except Mrs. Angel).
· most of these ideas are Jermaino's.

Group C:

· Nursery: This would be for the girls who have babies, in the nursery we would have all kinds of toys, baby swings, baby cribs, strollers, we would have everything. The mothers would not even have to bring baby formula or diapers, our nursery would have everything. The only things the mothers would have to do is check on their babies between classes for 5 minutes to make sure they're ok.

· Campus: We would have the C.A.R.C. come and do our campus to make it look pretty with all kinds of trees, green grass, and pretty flowers, with benches and more stuff to sit on and talk instead of standing around.

· School: Our school would be first of all, school would start same time and our school would be no bigger or no smaller. We would have way better food, nothing but…the real stuff, not this school food all cold. We would have clean bathrooms with doors and locks. We would have windows instead of just one. We would have all kinds of sports, named after our school (Phoenix) just like the Carlsbad High School does. We would have off campus lunch. So for the people that smoke, they can smoke on their lunch breaks. (No school on Fridays or get out early 12:00)

· Smoking: Wait till you get home to do what you want.

· P.E. Classes: For people who love sports and need credits.

Group D:

· Open campus lunch.
· Cigarette breaks.
· Physical activities.
· Lots more field trips to high school.
· One day a week of school.
· Little Allsups in here/hastings.
· Music lab!
· Olympic size pool/spa.
· Weight room.
· School jobs that pay $
· Better vending machines.
· Student lounge with TVs, beds, couches, play station, microwave, fridge.
· Phoenix cheerleaders for Ping Pong.
· Better computers.
· Padded relining desks.

Group E:

· Amusement park.
· Virtual reality teacher.
· Fast food courts.
· Daycare for kids.
· Personalize bathrooms.
· Swimming pools.
· Moving movie room.
· Weight room.
· Big planetarium.
· Auto mechanic shop.
· Auto test track.
· Assorties classes.
· Massaging recliner chairs.
· Personalized climate chambers.
· Clothes store.
· Personalize phone.
· Big sports fields.

Group F:

· Off campus lunches.
· Smoking area (cigarettes).
· Snack Bar.
· Our own school/not CHS.
· New school with gym, science lab, lockers, more electives.
· Pool and auditorium.
· Parking area.
· Old teachers back*
· More holiday parties.
· Field trips.
· Day care.
· Hot food.
· Pep-rally.
· Pay phones.
· Intercoms.
· Weight room.
· Sports equipment.
· Relay games & games during lunch.
· Buses.
· School store.
· P.E. classes.
· Art class.
· Better school property.