Focus Group II

For this session the kids mainly talked about how ugly they felt that their campus was. Everything from the school needing to be painted to the want for green grass. On a wants end, the kids really wanted playground equipment, basketball goals, football fields, and volleyball nets. The kids talked about how they have nothing to do outside at all, they are divided into groups of boys and girls on the playground, and a lot of them just sit down when outside. On an environmental end, I think they were really confused on what constitutes as environmental, but they did talk about composting and having the school provide for more garbage cans so that the trash on the playground was actually picked up. The excuse for all the trash was that they are not enough cans so people are lazy and just leave it on the ground. Of course I took this opportunity to suggest about recycling bins as well. I explained to them of how providing recycling areas would be helpful but also get rid of some of the trash. When talking about outside, I asked about what they do at home as well. Of course I got the stereotypical answers of tv and video games, but they also talked about how they like to go fishing and play with their dogs outside. One of the kids really talked about how they like the responsibility of taking care of their pets.