Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Cafeteria lines

So my new topic is the Cafeteria lines. Why they are ridiculously long? how it is effecting students? Why has this happened now? How can we change it? This affects my everyday life as I buy lunch. School lunch is one of the most important facets of an education. Clearly kids need food to get through the day. With this new system especially in second lunch is resulting in some kids not ending up with lunch and if they do get lunch, they have to waist a bunch of their time, which is supposed to be a break. Kids go up, see the horrendous lines, decide to go hang with their friends and when they return during second lunch the food has been taken away. This whole situation is really bad and really not conducive to learning.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

I-search

So my project is slightly out there, but it should be interesting. I want to see if writing you name on an assignment affects the grade you get. I would like to see if there is an intentional or unintentional bias when grading assignments. I am not even necessarily opposed to their being a bias if one exists. I assume it has helped as well as hurt me evening out maybe in my favor. However I feel like it is something we as students deserve to know. It is going to be hard to test and the results even harder to back up, but I have heard my share of students complaining about teacher bias to thing some exploration is worth it.