Finding Out About Our Students

In visiting Arts High School yesterday was a very interesting and quite enjoyable event. I was extremely surprised to see the well behaved and well carried students, regardless of just a high school in Newark, but a high school in general. I was amazed to see that the students actually get to study their particular area of enjoyment and learn it at the same time learning general subjects as well. I think this is an ideal high school because it gives each student a different perspective on their own lives and lives after school. In a way this makes a student feel more in control of themselves and important in society as an individual with opinions instead of just a number in the school system.
I think when doing the inquiry project that this high school would project different opinions than other high school students just because of the way these students are brought up in this different type of environment than others and this can portray a different opinion on the question of How is after school curriculum beneficial to students? Some questions that I would ask would be to see the relationship between sports related students vs non and what sports have done overall for these students.
In collecting data, will consist of many primary accounts of personal interviews on subject matter as well as observation of events involving students such as games and diary's of students opinion's on the subject matter as well. This can also incorporate teachers' opinions on their own students in sports as well as students not engaged in these sports by levels of grades and attitudes.