Subjects, or Citizens? High School Students Talk About Investing in Their Schools

High school students speak of experiencing school as something done to them, not something they might help to shape. If their high school administration does not hear their voices, respect their perspectives, and use their energies, a profound gap opens between the principal's high school and that of students -- two or more cultures overlaid on each other, in an uneasy tension that invites resistance and repression. Instead, students here suggest an approach that treats them as investors and realizes the rewards of increased interest and motivation, better communication, a more welcoming working environment, and improved learning outcomes.(5pp.)