The senior citizens enjoy spending time with teenagers and the students learn how to communicate better with the older generation. Service Learning Class The Service Learning Class at Metro High School is led by teachers Laurie Lee and Jerry Nelson. It was initiated last spring, although Metro High School students have always been involved in various volunteer and neighborhood projects. Some service projects are year long, like the MOW program, while others last for a term or less. The class chooses which projects it will work on by surveying community needs and hearing presentations from different volunteer-based groups.
Students do as much as the planning and implementation work as possible.
It's been a busy year for the class. Making fundraising boxes for the African American History Center. Engraving trail marker posts and planting trees at the Indian Creek Nature Center. Adopting 2 miles of highway on Otis Road by Indian Creek Nature Center. Moving furniture and doing yard work at Jane Boyd Community House.