Mix it Up - 2006.

[Adam Richards]

My school's Mix It Up day was more or less a failure. Everyone was given a piece of candy during homeroom. That piece of candy told you where you were sitting in the lunch room. During lunch, everyone basically found their friends who had the same candy type they did and sat with them. Everyone was given free pizza and soda/water. After people finished eating, instead of conversing in their new group, they stood up, and started walking around to find their usual friends. The administrators realized they had lost control and basically gave up trying to get us to mix it up.

[Schnabel]

My school is doing something like this, only we are having the people come in that were on Oprah's Challenge Day. I really hope that this goes well as I can see a big division within my school. Also, sorry to hear that your day was not that great of success Adam!

We tried this, sort of, but slightly different. I notice it doesn't work when the admins force it upon people. If it's a choice, then it's great.

[Protronie]

Back in my day the school wasn't worried about mixing us up... its sad to see that even all these years later...and after what has happen in schools. That cliques are still around. Of course today I guess they would be called gangs, posies ect...
Mix it up is a great idea. But as one of the posters state , forcing it on the students isn't going to work.
Congrats to the young folks that tried it... good luck to those that are thinking of or going to be giving it a try. Learn from the lessons here.