Semester Project

For our second quarter and semester grade, our teachers gave us the assignment of examining our school, Palatine High School, and finding an environmental or logistical problem to identify and solve. We brainstormed a lot and Jasmine came through with a great idea that got approved by Mrs. Sheehan. The idea is somewhat of a buddy system for freshmen. The transition from middle school to high school is definitely crazy hard so we wanted to have seniors and juniors be paired with a freshmen to help them. Having peers who have experienced hardship as a freshmen help them seems much easier for the incoming ones than having an adult try and help. Students listen easier to people that they can relate to. I myself(Andy) was fortunate enough to have my cross country older friends tell me about the good and bad of high school. I feel like everyone should have this opportunity. We first need to survey the freshmen to see if they would have found it easier to survive with a buddy. Then, we need to contact the school board to see if something like this has existed before. For now, we are creating a survey to give the kids to see if they would like it.