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Strategies Employed by Hanna Madsen

a) 1. First, we had to narrow down our project from "senior priveleges" to a singular senior privelege that we could defend with logic and reason. After heated discussion, we selected lunch off school bounds because other schools had done it and seen success. Also, we felt it would not only benefit the senior class, but the school. 2. Next, we figured out how to fit in this privelege with the current lunch policy. When this proved to be futile, we worked out a new lunch plan that would extend the lunches and shorten the passing time. This we felt would benefit everyone as the passing length was unnesscary and the long lunch could potentially produce many oppurtunities. (ex. clubs held during lunch vs. after school) 3. After that, we considered school policy on leaving school grounds and the possible parental/adminstrative reaction to our plan. We adjusted our plan according to minimize the arguments we thought they had. 4. Then we presented our plan to various school adminstrators including both vice principals, the principal, and the student activities director. 5. Finally, we put together all the information we had gathered through discussion with professionals and ourselves. We wrote position papers and created this wikispace to display this information. We also added potential strategies if anyone would like to bring this project into action. We included potential propaganda methods including posters and a script for a media event. While we all wish we could have actually brought this to fruitation, we feel that this wikipage will allow others to carry on our plan. Good luck. b) I think we were very successful in coming up with an accurate plan and gathering information from all sources of opinions. I think that if we could have gone back, perhaps we would have picked a different senior privelege that would not aggravate so much school policy and scheduling. Also, I personally think we should have taken this issue to the student body to see what the general populace thought. All in all, however, we are all pleased with our effort and hope someone someday will take this on.