Mix it Up - 2006.

[Michelle Celio]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

Michelle,
Let us know how things go. I am on the Diversity Committee at work and we are always looking for new ideas and struggling with the same kinds of issues.

I apologize for the delay in my response, I have had very hectic schedule for the last few days.

The even at my school probably didn't go as well as the administration had planned. Students were given either a yellow, pink, orange or green sticker and once they entered the lunch room they were so posted to sit at the corresponding table with that color.

The problem with my school's cafeteria is that we have round tables and square tables, the round tables were all pink, and they are by themselves, not connected to any other set of table and they only seat four people. People who had pink stickers found their friends with pink stickers and just claimed a table. The rest of the tables are indeed square and aligned in rows, but people would again just find people they knew with the same color sticker and sit near them.

I saw several people trading sticker colors with other students and a couple of students who somehow acquired a set of all four colors. Our school gave us the option of participating. We have indoor and outdoor seating. The color seating only applied to the indoor seating. My friends and I sit outside, and we just over passed the fact that it happened on the inside. We did have a few people who we didn't know sit with us who were trying to avoid the chaos inside of the cafeteria. I guess that counted as "Mixing it up".

I think that if the school would of approached3 the matter in a different way the event would of been more successful.