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SERVICE LEARNING: ERIC

A Reflection on Service Learning:

Working with Eric

The first time I saw the beautiful yet simple architecture

of Waverly High School, I was enchanted. I remember driving

by while exploring my new surroundings as a transfer student

to Michigan State University and marveling at the long front

wall of reflective windows, the shapely bushes, and the general

cleanliness of the school grounds. When I was assigned to do a

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service learning project in a local school district, I hoped for the

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opportunity to find out what it would be like to work at a school

like Waverly—a school where the attention to its students’ needs

was evident from the outside in.

Waverly High School, which currently enrolls about 1,100

students in grades 9 through 12 and has a teaching staff of 63, is

extremely diverse in several ways. Economically, students range

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from poverty level to affluent. Numerous ethnic and racial groups

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are represented. And in terms of achievement, the student body

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boasts an assortment of talents and abilities.

The school provides a curriculum that strives to meet the

needs of each student and uses a unique grade reporting system

that itemizes each aspect of a student’s grade. The system allows

both teachers and parents to see where academic achievement and

academic problems surface. Unlike most schools, which evaluate

students on subjects in one number or letter grade, Waverly has

a report card that lists individual grades for tests, homework,

exams, papers, projects, participation, community service, and

attendance. Thus, if a student is doing every homework

Source: Hacker Handbooks (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011, 2007).

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