My+Community+Service+Project

I helped compile and organize the questions that the students had into one list. Here are the following questions: 1. Which programs are being cut? 2. How do Teachers feel about the budget overall? 3. What programs receive the most money? 4. Who do we approach for ﻿detailed information on the budget? 5. How do we go about changing the budget? 6. What does he feel towards the Budget cut? Has he tryed to find a different solution? 7. Was there any final decision made about which classes and jobs would be cut for next year? 8. Does he worry or think this will affect our learning or education? 9. Does Mr. Brown have for the proposals for the deficit? 10. Who could we find, That'll give us info about the budgets? 11.What are the cuts that directly affect the student body? 12. How do you decide what programs can be cut? 13. Do you have any restrictions on the programs that you can or cannot cut? 14. What is the most efficient way to save money? 15. What do you think can be a good idea? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[I sent emails to Michael Howe and Winnie Chen about the project. [We are working together to compile a list of questions about the project]
 * 1) Evidence of YOUR work on the Project: should include EVERYthing you have Personally worked on to complete the project.**

After school, I volunteered to find Dan and lead him to the interviews he was suppose to do for the documentary. I also stayed for 30 minutes after school to watch the Documentary and left my paper to which scenes should be added for narration.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The budget project has shun light into the students of the class about the economic trouble that we are currently facing. Even though the budget was solved while we were working on it, it showed what the problems were. It was interesting to know that cutting teachers was the last resort to face the budget, even though teachers pay for most of their supplies. Mr. Brown would look into every small detail, cut that part, so that he can save as much jobs as he can for the teachers. Our consistency with Generation Citizen was horrible and miserable. That girl who was with us in the beginning basically disappeared at the end. The documentary I thought was to much work and out of our skills level, but we were lucky to find Dan to do it. I would be on a different tempo with the community service project because we would be learning about history, than all of a sudden we take a wild turn into the budget. Than I would have already forgot what was happening in History when we finished Generation Citizen. There was one idea I wanted to do with the project was that instead of doing a plain old boring survey, or documentary that everyone expects to do, is that I wanted to make a video that incorporates a dance, a song, and the message in the dance and song. That way, people will be entertained, and actually listen and pay attention to the message, meaning that the budget affects how students learn in class, affects the teachers, and it plays a tremendous role in life.
 * 2) One Reflections - Journal Style**

Since the Budget Project, I learned more and more of how students and teachers would be affected. At first I wasn't entirely on board with this project because I wanted to do the trash bag project. I wasn't at all interested in the budget but as I started to work more in depth with the project, I realized more and more how it effects everything around me. It effected my learning because my teacher would print worksheets on little cut off paper. It would be hard to read it and to mark up the text. As time went on, the budget got serious for me.
 * 3) FINAL REFLECTION - Essay Style**

After helping Dan to his interviews, I learned the teacher's point of view on the budget. They spend more than a couple hundred dollars for their supplies for the school year. "The student's shouldn't provide what they need to class, the teachers should provide it", I heard from 1 interview. That got me thinking that we might be facing serious problems next year if the budget cut gets worse. I started thinking that my class sizes would be bigger because of the teachers that got cut. Would there be less 1on1 attention for me? That question remained in my head for a while.

When the budget was solved, I wonder how. I learned that the school was accepted for a Federal Grant and that was enough money to keep drastic changes from happening. With the whole documentary project coming, I was excited to see the final product. Mr. Iovino with other teachers could make a change on student's interest with the budget. Putting it on Facebook and Youtube would spread the attention it so despretley needed.

In the end, the project was somewhat of a success. The main point of the project was to spread attention of how budget cuts affected teachers and students. It influenced our learning environments and damaged our education. The project showed the effects and problems of what little money can do.