Students at Crescent View Middle School recently spent a Friday morning at a service project that required them to get their hands – and boots, if they had them – a little dirty. The students at the urban school were asked to show up at Draper’s rodeo grounds instead of sleeping in for a few hours.   

There, while their teachers collaborated on academics, the students, said Crescent View Assistant Principal Stacy Kurtzhals, good-naturedly participated in good, old-fashioned service learning. The group, which included administrators and a few parents, did all sorts of chores to beautify the grounds, including “pulling tumbleweeds – even the kind with the sharp stickers,” Kurtzhals said.  

“The students loved it,” said Kurtzhals.  “We had every type of student there. We had a complete slice of our school.”

The service project was the first of four that is done by Crescent View each school year. Next month, for Veterans Day, students and faculty plan to serve breakfast to veterans who live in the neighborhoods surrounding the Sandy school.