Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Environmental Charter Schools, is there room for them on Gods green earth? By SZB

Good day mates, I am officially a blogger. This Friday, Oct. 24, our team will hold its initial meeting with Environmental Charter high school, ECHS, administrators. No need to break the ice, our teams Producer, Caroline Pinal, has done that already. Rumor has it that the school is very excited about our upcoming project, hopefully they will agree with the direction we want our film to go. As for that, our proposed film will focus on the need for an environmental charter school.
With that in mind we will be looking at the internal and external functions of ECHS, located at 16315 Grevillea Avenue in the city of Lawndale. Among other things, the film will focus on the advantages ECHS students gain over high school students who attend non-charter public high schools. In addition we plan on taking an in depth look at the environmental practices that exist on this campus, our inquiring minds want to find out just how environmentally sound the campus itself is. For info about ECHS you can check out there website at http://www.echsonline.org/?page=home. Check out the "Green Ambassadors" video on the homepage, I am particularly interested in this program.
For the sake of tension we hope to compare our findings at ECHS with local public high schools and watch the controversy explode. One question that may be central to this film is what percentage of students are likely to enroll into two and four-year colleges? Also, are the students at ECHS more environmentally conscious then students who attend local public high schools? Does ECHS offer extra-curricular activities that are comparable to the extra-curricular activities offered at public high schools, i.e., social events, sports programs, academic and social clubs, etc?
If you haven't guess yet, the subjects that we are most interested in are the students themselves. Although ECHS if the focus of this study it is our intent to also include Rosie the Riveter charter high school right here in Long Beach. We are still working on setting up a meeting with school officials.
As for our next entry, look for Bahati to discuss our struggles with getting our contracts finalized.

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