KIDS TALK BACK:A new appreciation

The Daily Pilot visited Orange Coast Middle College High School and asked Stephen Harper’s 11th grade United States history classes what they learned about the backgrounds of several groups, including feminists, hippies, Latinos and Native Americans, during a class project.

“It helped me. I felt like I had the freedom to express how I felt about the counter-culture. It helped me and my classmates learn from each other rather than from a lecture.”

Hayden Baldwin, 17Costa Mesa

“We had Native Americans and looked at how they had the highest suicide rate of any other minority. I have a new appreciation for what they had to go through.

Kellie Hamilton, 16Costa Mesa

“I love that we were able to actually find out how hippies lived back then and what they had to do, go through and they fought for.”

Sierra Gonzalez, 17Costa Mesa

“Wow, [women] did have a lot to go through before the feminism movement. You kind of saw how much they had to do.”

Nate Roberts, 17Costa Mesa

“It was pretty intense. We learned pretty much about [the birth of] sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. They treat us more like adults here. It was more like a college project.”

Sean Flannery, 17Costa Mesa