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"Our story about what this art piece means to our group..."
In a whole, this piece describes our past school experiences and it�s applications to life. The structure of this piece metaphorically shows the boundaries that the school systems have on our lives- irrelevant walls seemed placed between us and our freedoms. The words and walls alone represent this system. And what is often placed in the background of our working lives- our creativity and imagination, and way to see things differently- are often struggling behind the rigid rules. With no flexibility pertaining to our lives and our dreams, we often find struggle. The prominent imagination throughout the entire piece represents our creativity brought forward, above the structure, where it is not often placed. It is here, at Destinations, where we learn through our own interests and paths, which we can succeed.
We could say that each of us is represented through these mushrooms. We identify with them as the willingness to grow, even in darkness, and even in unlikely places. Not many can grow without the sun. We have found our own determination.
The tree represents our growth through life no matter what happens, how it will all keep going, and no matter how far graduation and other goals seemed before; we will inevitably reach our destinations.
Student�s writings� (The group combined their Individual answers to specific questions creating this continuous story.)
I left Marshfield because teachers were not helping me. I wanted to teachers to be open-minded and accepting of my differences. I also got kicked out of North Bend high School. I felt segregated. I am studying mycology and botany. I am going to get a job and continue my mycology and botany studies. If I could start high school over, I wouldn�t slack off or get off track. I did not feel that the teachers helped me in ways that I needed. If I could change my freshman year I wouldn�t skip as much or mess around instead of go to class. What doesn�t it mean to be successful; you can be successful at anything. I want to be Successful to my goals, not to meet up to anyone else�s expectations. I want to have money with the freedom to spend it how I want. I want to be alive and in good health. No cigarette smoking. Not someone who only thinks about himself or herself. I want to be successful and have a lot of money and own my own shop. I know a lot to know about owning my parents shop. I�m inspired by a lot of people. Success means to do something and finish it. I want to be successful in my life. I somewhat have the skills that I need to do what I want to in my life. My 7th grade English teacher is the only class that I have gotten an A in English. She was cool. She let me get away with a lot of stuff or I didn�t get caught. I leaned a lot in her class. I left Marshfield because they taught me the same things I already learned. I am most inspired by myself because I learned everything by myself, besides school � I am streetwise. I can live on my own. To be successful means to accomplish something and to be a good person with good morals, manner and respect. I want to be a traveling RN, I have some of the skills that I need. I can other skills I need through school. I am determined to succeed in my life. I left Marshfield because their type of schooling did not work for me. Not all people are meant for a certain type of schooling (traditional public school systems). They are letting me pursue whatever I want to. I am practicing art and getting acknowledged for it. I want to be a professional artist. I want to be a bartender and live off of that until I get a break. I�ll do my art on the side. I�m going to get a job in Ashland. I want to go to the private art school in Ashland. If I had a chance to start HS again I would actually go. To be successful means to be happy. I want this for myself. I guess I am happy now � I�m not sad. I look more to the future. I will have the skills that I need once I go through this private art school. I am learning some of these skills here as I can do them freely and they actually apply to my life. Mr. Drew was most influential teacher in Middle School because he was cool. I am most inspired by Alex Grey � the painter who is really really talented painter. He works with Abstract-conceptual images. alexgrey.com the main reason that I left Marshfield was the teachers. I don�t like jumping through all those hoops. I was really good at English. And it was easy. I was tired of the structure they used. I would sit in a class and try to work and all these kids ask questions. I hold high standards. I don�t like ignorance. I didn�t feel right at Marshfield. I have most of the skills that I need to get a job with. I�m learning at career class about job resumes and what�s out there. I don�t really know what I want to do. I think Destinations could do a better job at having a better computer program. I plan on repairing computers in my spare time until I find what I want to do. If I could have started HS over again I would have over all missed less school. I feel angry that my doctor did not listen to my health issues in a respectful manner. My math teacher said I was smoking. I went to my counselor and they gave me a UA. It was clean. And then my counselor asked me if I wanted to go to destinations. That�s how I got here. It�s alright - destination. And I am going to take classes at Swcc � the OCCi. I got me a job. I would have done nothing differently up to destinations � and then I would have worked harder because I would have been done last year. I never went to Marshfield. I started here at destinations from middle school. I didn�t make it at middle school because I needed the teachers to be at the same level as me and not act as an authority over me. I chose to come to destinations because it sounded like a cool program. My friend told me about it and it sounded good. I�ve learned career skills at Destinations. I�d like to be learning more stuff that we are interested in. I can get my diploma by going to academic classes in the morning and completing the afternoon independent studies. Don�t ask me how � you just can. I feel pretty good because there is not much more to learn to be successful in life. I don�t have plans about how I will support myself yet. I don�t really have to think about it yet. If I could start middle school again, I would probably not miss so much school. Last year I was here and I didn�t miss school because it was cool. I faked being sick in Middle School � all of school starting in 1st grade � up until last year. Now that I am here I realize that it actually matters here and I should do good. I left Marshfield to complete my High School education at the destinations program in the Harding Learning Center because I fell behind because I got in trouble. I�ve come to Destinations because I knew I would catch up to graduate. The skills I am currently learning at Destinations to prepare me for a successful life after graduating from High School is knowledge to help me live on my own. My plan after I graduate is to have a friend in CAlifornia who is going to put me threw schooling for heavy equipment Mechanics. If I had to start High School over again as a Freshman I would not bring pot to school and that�s about it. Acrylic is my favorite medium. I like to paint abstract conceptual stuff. You could say I have made art before, and I like drawing. I�ve made art before. All kinds. In the third grade it�s all we did. She kept all of our work. That art teacher was very different. I�ve made all kids of art, digital art is my favorite. It is fun to make art. I like to draw. I have to say that MC Escher is my favorite � it all abstract and wonderfully strange. My favorite subject is Philosophy. Rastafari inspires me because it reminds me of love. Mingus Park inspired me. I like the woods there and the Oriental Garden. I like to build things. It�s fun to work on it. Music and history. I like to watch the history channel. People did some crazy stuff - everything is crazy. Music relaxes me. The beaches are rad and they do not inspire me. Ethneobotany. I like to learn about the study of plants and their culture. I think it�s pretty cool that tribal people used plants to connect with spirit. I�m just really interested in reading and discussing history, culture and spirituality. It�s nice to know that people 10,000 years ago had the same issues as us. It�s pretty messed up that we are doing the same things. People need to make things more simpler. I value Spiritual expansion and mind expansion into different planes and different consciousness � breaking barriers in my mind thoughts. I want to open the doors to different places in the world and experience different mental realizations. I would go to Africa and donate my money and start an art institute there. And donate all my money to the hungry children there. I would move out of my house. I�d finish school at Destinations. I�d still go to Washington to learn how to work with heavy equipment. Buy a house and car and build my own garden to grow my own food, spices and herbs. I would keep the rest in the bank and hold onto it until I wanted to buy something else. I�d buy a bunch of stuff. I�d go to a lot of concerts. I�d buy whatever I wanted and I would not continue with my cooking career. I don�t know but I wouldn�t buy lots of stuff. I would built a self-sustainable house in the middle of nowhere with lots of woods and water. I wouldn�t want to buy a bunch of stuff. I don�t quite know what I would do. I don�t think I�d be happy with a million dollars. I don�t think I would want it. I think I am perfectly fine how I am. I want my mind and thinking to be clearer. I can hopefully find a better way. I don�t know what I would do. I would want to see some people. I would face extremes that I was afraid of before. I�d just go ahead and do it. I don�t know exactly what I�d do. I�d probably come to terms with myself and then find out that I wasn�t going to die. A combination of last two answers. I�d donate all of it. I have no idea. I�d contract that whatever I didn�t spend would be donated to build a bunch of homeless shelters.
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