Testing the Hypothesis, Part 2

Who: I found that my product/service would be in very high demand. There are not certain people or certain businesses that, although they share a lot in common with the others in my opportunity, nevertheless fall outside the boundary. It targets is main area/group of people.

What: The need for quality education without a high price and all the red tape is not the same as the need to change the current educational system. This need will be satisfied outside of the current “system”.

Why: The underlying cause of the outsiders' needs does differ from those on the inner bands. The people who my service would not be of use of would include the following: College students and adults who are no longer in any type of school.

Inside the Boundary	Outside the Boundary
Who is in need: Parents, teachers, and the students of grades pre-k to 12.	Who is not in need: College students and adults who are no longer in any type of school.
What the need is: The need is to increase the opportunity for students to get a quality education without all the “roadblocks”.	What the need is not: This service is not a fix all solution to the school issue, that would take the passing of laws and a clean sweep of school boards, which would take a long time. This service merely gives parents and students a better option.
Why the need exists: The school board and the government require the teachers and schools to follow so many rules and restrictions that it limits what the teachers can do and how they can help the students. It gives them no other choice, but to teach them all the same.	Alternative Explanations: This service can better the future of so many students and help them to reach their full potential better. It will give parents peace of mind that they have done all they can to help their child will have a bright future.

In summation, this service is an awesome option for anyone who would like to participate. This service can change children’s lives for the better and put parents at peace.

Solving the Problem

Children of school age, from pre-kindergarten to high school, have to go through a lot to get a quality education because there is a lot of red tape, politics, and other people’s views that gets in the way of a true education.

Service: "Personal One-on-One Development (POD) Schooling"

The parents will setup the POD chamber in the perspective student’s home. The educational system will provide a futuristic implications whereas all children are able to be educated in their home, receive one on one attention/tutoring and learning based NOT testing learning focused.

The expense will be covered by private donors and fundraisers will be the setup of the POD. Social activities are community based…it takes a village to raise one child. Therefore it takes a community to socialize that same one child.

The goal would be to eventually have it move into school systems and revamp the ancient educational system. for them, cost saving will be in the form of decreased transportation/busing, meals, electrical bills. All savings go toward teacher pay, educational materials, tech support.

 

Testing the Hypothesis, Part 1

Opportunities: Teachers are starting to more explicitly state their preferences towards their students, shaping them with their own views, and setting up one more obstacle that students have to break through to get to the real learning. There is enough red tape surround schools, keeping teachers from adequately teaching young students. There is an opportunity to create a different type of school/service.

The who: Children of school age, from pre-k to high school

The what: They have to go through a lot to get a quality education

The why: There is a lot of red tape, politics, and other people’s views that gets in the way of a true education.

Hypothesis:

    Testing the who: Everyone in my current 'who' share the need, parents also are the ones who want this for their children.

    Testing the what: Not all teachers are the problem, just some of them and it includes both private and public schooling.

    Testing the why: There’s no accountability for under-educated students, wasted funding, overcrowded, a lack of teacher education innovation, ignoring the educational opportunities that technology has afforded, every student is being treated the same, they give up on student too easily. There is plenty of why’s that could come up. By talking to the parents I learned just to what extent this issue could affect the child not just in their education, but also socially.

What I learned: I learned many important things from this assignment. After the interviews, I could tell that not just parents, but students would also want this. They see the opportunities this could afford them not only now in their school years, but also in their future.

Identifying Local Opportunities

• Helping hands, hearts
• http://www.gadcotimes.com/content/helping-hands-hearts
• A Catholic church in Quincy, FL does a drive, run by a woman named Huapilla, to collect items for families in Immokalee that were affected by Hurricane Irma. They wanted to collect any and everything a family would need to start over.
• The Problem: Hurricane Irma destroyed business and a plethora of homes in South Florida, leaving families to start all over again from scratch.
• The People: Everyone affected by Hurricane Irma has this problem.
• Lawsuit: Walmart worker fired after caring for sick child
• http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2017/08/24/lawsuit-walmart-worker-fired-after-caring-sick-child/598485001/
• After calling into work to take his sick child to the hospital, which would have fallen under FMLA, without notice, a Walmart cashier was terminated from the job two weeks later. He even presented a doctor’s note after he was wrongfully terminated to provide proof of his story.
• The Problem: One of its former Tallahassee Walmart cashiers is suing Walmart. They are firing employees for calling out to take care of family emergencies that would fall under FMLA.
• The People: The company of Walmart as a whole has the problem because the cashier is suing Walmart
• Whataburger sued over alleged racial discrimination
• http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2017/09/22/whataburger-sued-over-alleged-racial-discrimination/694535001/
• A Whataburger manager was “pressured” to hire only applicants. Instead, the restaurant general manager to hire the most qualified applicants. This restaurant general manager was repeatedly hounded, verbally and emotionally abused, to the point where she felt as if she had to resign. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sought to make Whataburger to keep from engaging in in such acts and ruled on the side of the general restaurant manager ask that they give her back pay, reinstate her, and pay her retributive damages.
• The Problem: Whataburger violated the 1964 Civil Rights Act having employment discrimination.
• The People: Whataburger has the problem.
• Parents divided in opinion after gender neutral teacher sends note home with 5th graders           
• http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2017/09/20/parents-divided-opinion-after-gender-neutral-teacher-sends-home-note-5th-graders/685061001/
• A teacher at Canopy Oaks elementary school sent home a welcome letter with her students that asked students to address her using gender-specific pronouns.
• The Problem: Some of the parents do not as if the teacher is addressing gender issues or even bringing them to the forefront by stating her preference in how she is addressed.
• The People: The parents of the students in Bressack’s, the teacher, classroom are the ones who have the problem.
• With Irma lurking, Tallahassee shoppers empty stores of hurricane supplies
• http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/money/2017/09/05/panic-sheer-panic/633974001/
• While Hurricane Irma was on its way towards its capital, people running into stores emptying the stores of hurricane supplies so that they could be reedy when the storm hit. It cost lots of chaos and caused gas prices to increase significantly.
• The Problem: Stores in Tallahassee were being emptied of hurricane supplies quicker than they could get more shipments in and on the shelves.
• The People: The stores and their vendors have the problem, but the customers of those stores are also affected.

The Bug List

1.     Being blamed for something I did not do and not getting a chance to explain

Why it exists: People do not want to accept the responsibility of what they did and recognize they are at fault. People use it as a defense mechanism, they want someone else to blame for their problems  instead of facing them.

2.     People who cannot follow simple directions that are plainly written out for them

Why it exists: People expect things to be done for them; they want all the benefits without the work or the effort. Because we live in a somewhat lazy society, people want things handed to them. If they are already used to getting things without working for them, it is what they always expect.

3.     When after getting gas, the screen for that pump says “Please see attendant for receipt”

Why it exists: No one is put in charge of making sure there is receipt paper in each of the gas pumps and that it is always full.

4.     When people make messes, but do not clean up after themselves 

Why it exists: In public areas, people believe that it is what “janitors” are for; in private, no one else sees it but them.

5.     Slow internet connection

Why it exists: Because I live out in the country.

 

6.     Traffic at 5 o’clock p.m.

Why it exists: There is not enough road space or the traffic light sensors are "off"

 

7.     That Chick-fil-a is closed on Sundays

Why it exists: Chick-fil-a strives to keep their old-school traditional view of keeping Sunday's for spending time with family.

 

8.     Being told how I should feel about things

Why it exists: People like to try to control everything.

 

9.     When men who do not even know me, feel comfortable enough or that they have the right to tell that I have a nice “bottom”

Why it exists: We live in a society where men are comfortable say almost anything to a woman that he deems as a compliment.

 

10.   Nasty public restrooms

Why it exists: There is no one in charge of the specific task of keeping them clean.

 

11.   People who do not cover their cough or sneeze

Why it exists: Most people are only concerned for their own health.

 

12.   People who walk out of the restroom without washing their hands

Why it exists: Their hygienic habits are not of their own concern.

13.   People taking out anger on innocent children

Why it exists: They only do what was done to them or they were never taught how to handle their anger.

14.   People who drive on too closely to the person in front of them

Why it exists: They may be in a hurry or have forgotten some of the driving lessons taught to them.

15.  Sagging pants

Why it exists:It was once considered a trend and even goes back to gang and prison culture.

16.   When a scar brand new sandals on the sidewalk

Why it exists: Some sandals are made so the when you walk, there is a gap between the inside of the shoe and your foot. Sometimes making you trip when you are rushing.

17.   When people continuously ask if they can touch my hair or if my hair is real

Why it exists: People are made to believe that African-American women can not grow their hair long and that it cannot be that of a good grade. So when women see an African-American woman with good hair, they usually believe it weave.

18.   The mispronunciation of my name on purpose

Why it exists: To catch my attention, to aggravate me, but usually to tease me.

19.   When people decide they do not want something in a store and just put it anywhere

Why it exists: They find it too much effort to simply walk and put it back.

20.  Coworkers who decide to eat food from the staff refrigerator knowing that it is not theirs

Why it exists: There are no cameras in the break room and know that no one will find out it was them.

I did not find it difficult to create this bug list. The most difficult part was to figured out why some of them exists.