February 24, 2010-Getting Tools to City Schools- Bryce Council-Special Visit

We left school at 2:20 in order to take a train ride for an hour and reach the school by 3:30. We recorded ourselves walking to the school in the Bronx called P.S. 335. The neighborhood did not seem like the best neighborhood as compared to what the school looked like. The neighborhood had graffiti on buildings and many of the buildings looked very dirty. However on the premises of the school it was very clean. There was no graffiti or gum or anything like that. The inside of the building reminded me of my old school. It had the same look to it. We walked up to the fifth floor where we first interviewed the Art teacher that was in one of the videos on the Getting Tools to City Schools website. We asked questions like, “Did you see a difference in the way the children acted or their grades?” and the teacher along with the other three people we interviewed (the Assistant Principal, a student that received supplies, and the Parent Teacher Coordinator) gave the same response which was yes. “The children seemed more focused” said the art teacher. The PTC said, ” The children and the families were very grateful and the grades have improved as a result of receiving the supplies.” Along with those types of questions, we asked the bonus question which was, what is your favorite type of pizza? When we were on the train coming back to the school, we wrote letters saying thank you to the people we interviewed and signed them.