Participant Demographics

We actively and intentionally engage people with diverse perspectives and experiences to ensure that ALL voices are heard in addressing the pressing needs of today and building a collective preferred vision for tomorrow. Demographic data are collected from participants and compared to publicly available data for the region to ensure the sample population accurately represents our community.

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Passions

In this exercise we asked participants what they are positive or passionate about. Diverse participants have many different passions, but there are common themes.

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Carry Forward

In this exercise we asked participants, considering our region’s history, what aspects they would want to carry forward into a preferred future.

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Leave Behind

In this exercise we asked participants, considering our region’s history, what aspects they would want to leave behind (NOT carry forward) into a preferred future.

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Visions

9/16/25

• My vision for Bosse is to make Bosse a place that’s less in competition with each other and be more welcoming peaceful.
• I think to start we need to pay more attention and take advantage of the land we have. We have so much untouched grass that all we do is cut it. This could be used for flower gardens or fresh produce gardens. Also, we need to put a lot more focus into feeder programs. That is the path that would lead us back to the top of leading high school.
• Helping students if their getting trouble.
• A change I would like to see is more communication. There are more spaces where people can relax. There will be more participation in things that go on in the school, more focus in feeder programs and growing those. More of a rehabilitation.
• Communicating more, a more welcome place for everyone, use more of our space, help students out.
  My vision is to make Bosse a more welcoming place.
• I want to see people treating others equally no matter what. I want people to care about others if they’re catholic or atheist. If they’re black or white. If they’re trans or cis gender. If they’re loud or quiet. Everyone deserves to have their opinions.
• Green community space that foster students passions. More than enough resources for the arts. Fresh food options at lunchtime. support for all students and interests.
• My vision for Bosse’s future is the school becoming more community oriented. Hosting events, cookouts, music events, fun activities.
• Helping students like every month they can maybe call students down to talk about mental health. Careful about students mental health.
• My vision for our future is to have everyone at least know each other a little. Have diversity, so people can get to know different ethnics and stuff. Getting involved, bring respectful, equality, inclusion, kindness, student engagement, arts recognition.
• Make Bosse High school a welcoming environment. Where all students feel included, comfortable and make sure that their voices be heard.
• My main vision is to have students and adults working together to make a positive impact on the school and community.
• Getting involved, being respectful, keeping the school clean, kindness, Arts recognition, Diversity/equality/inclusion, student engagement, helping others.
• Paw print, school spirit. Be noticed and loved.
• School spirit, better lunch for c lunch.
• More school spirit, cleaner school, no fighting
• We want a cleaner school, more funding, student involvement,
• more school spirit, less drama, more success.
• Make the school a better place

11/12/25 – Group 1

• Good education and good teachers, students ready to learn. Garden for better food/fresher food. Better music programs.
• Put in big courtyard so people can enjoy nature.Put in a pond with rocks around it for seating.
• Mostly, I just wanna be able to make lots of buildings that can make the community better like new houses for the homeless or better quality schools or fancy buildings for banks and businesses.
• No hallway sweeps and better bathrooms.
• Have a massive company.
• We want others to see us as polite people and treat us like we are real humans. We want a healthy and safe environment and care for others, be confident.
• We want others to see us as polite people and treat us like we are real humans. We want a healthy and safe environment and care for others, be confident.
• We want others to see us as polite people and treat us like we are real humans. We want a healthy and safe.
• More elevators and ramps for the handicap.
• We want others to see us as polite people and treat us like we were real humans. We want a healthy and safe environment. 
• To be positive and empathetic
• Equality in being different in all ways, helping the homeless.
• People come together, are happy and are empathetic towards others.
• My vision is to help the homeless, build more homeless shelters.
• My vision is to have a maybach one day or a really nice car and help people out you need it.

11/12/25 – Group 2

• Bosse can change their travel buses for sports teams and make them more advanced and/or high tech. Keep all the history in the schools around us and Bosse, but make them more modern (the schools). Make Bosse food better.
• School starts at 9:00 am so that students have more time to rest. Transportation is provided to all studios during cold weather. That there be more variety in the food.
• Everyone works together teachers teach with dedication, technology is more advanced. School is bigger and fixed. Elderly people have a big house and nurses are involved into taking robots.
• Everyone gets together for cookouts Friday.
• Bosse has become so incredible these last 5 years, because they have redone all these houses, the crime rate is lower now because everyone in the community looks out for each other. There is finally more schools around and the environment is just great, everyone is happy, especially with the expansion of Bosse and way more opportunities and sports have come about.
• Bosse will look nicer and will be better taken care of. Same with the rest of Evansville, we will have nicer places, and better education for everyone in the community, no matter race or language. Sports and arts are all good and everyone gets a chance to play or do everything. Events (like Fall Festival) will continue and all of the community will get along together. The community will be more tight knit and Evansvill will be a big place to live. 
• I vision it as a place where everyone is able to work in. Where everyone is getting good education, and is a place where bullying isn’t tolerated. A place where people are getting along and is influenced by the environment. And I want it to be a place where people want to be. 
• In the future me I would like to see that racism, discrimination and bullying already stopped, that the young people simply have studies in mind for future milestones. And no longer have drugs in the mind drugs or bad vices. That adults can manage to give their children a good future and the elderly have relatives who take care of them and do not abandon them, because they are elderly people. That the school tries to improve the scared so that the students do not scan bad with others or discriminate against them.
• I believe that also give transportation to everyone because sometimes changing can cause an accident. 
  More young people volunteering, more active young people, more talking, more young adults getting jobs, more positive people, more students speaking up in class.
• Bosse looks the same but less strict and some students feel it’s safe to walk to and from Bosse. The football team gotten better and actually winning.
• Better food, girl basketball can get a win, go out of school for lunch.
  I would love to see people coming together, spreading positivity and joy as the lord and savior, will bring our areas up. They will rise as people have the hearts to take care of others. Even ones on the road struggling. We will all rise, see happiness and healing each other over all. 
• No bugs, new computers, marching band needs more money for things, like instruments, repairs and new guard equipment, more money for the school, betterfood, nicer lunch workers.
• New computers, get rid of bugs, better food, funding.
• Bosse basketball is the best thing, especially when your on the court. All students cheer, being being able to showcase my talents on the court.
• I want the community become in peace, showing respect, not goofing off, making sure the school is clean with no bugs. 

1/20/26 – Group 1

• For my vision at Bosse I want everyone to be included. Community centers for everyone to enjoy, and a more respectful and caring community.
• New classes for future, unity, better sports, dress code more relaxed, better lunches, employment center, soup kitchen, better healthcare, housing, more plants, recycling, help.
• Representing everyone’s different passions and culture. Community centers and activities, better grades. 
• Making the environment better around Bosse and neighborhoods around. Also having more talk about how important education is and how serious it is. Having more events for Bosse like pep assemblies for sports or just fun in general.
• People from different races/cultures celebrating together
• Flag, grades, better lunches, jobs, unity, field trips, sports, cheaper houses, throw away trash, no jaywalk
  A change to the teaching environment, making it more engaged and making learning feel not so mundane or boring, bring a more comfortable and welcoming atmosphere. Hire teachers who make learning more fun and nor something that’s required by the government. 
• More trips out of school, more meetings, less school
• More population and changes in places such as more buildings built.
• A future where Bosse doesn’t have a not so good reputation. There is more greenery around Bosse, sports, academics and mindsets are expanded, have more celebration or pep rallys.
• My vision to me in 15 to 20 years my object at school and have money to continue my career.
• Fix whatever kids say, be it mostly means well and will help in long run. 
• In 15-20 years i would like to earn enough money to get a nice home, with a husband and kids. I would also like to become a NICU nurse, because I love babies.
• My vision for Bosse is for there to be more colors a, and more mascots, things to look at when going class to class. And also for there to be more things to do after school, more pep rallys and more games during the pep rallys, things like teachers vs students. Better bathroom attention. Kids need to be in class but also need to be learning something that is going to make them want to pay attention.
• I think my vision with Bosse in 15-20 years in the future. I would want the school food to be highlight of the school,so that way students and athletes alike. I would also like our daycare to be reopned, so that way students and teachers can bring their kids or younger siblings, so that way students and parents can attend school and work also fix and renovate the weight room. 

1/20/26 – Group 2

• My vision is the inspiration everyone has gotten to create a better society. Inspirations that have evidence to believe in why their inspiration is their inspiration.
• Add 39 stories to the building.
• Better food, better heating and teachers should choose the temperature, better assignments, extend passing to 8 minutes.
• To join together and accomplish great things as one. 
• I want to see a change in the roads, better roads can reduce vehicle damage. 
• My vision is to clean roads and safe homes.
• Larger diverse groups and friendships, more clubs for interaction.
• Garden around the flagpole, open back up the daycare, working vending machine, more mental health and personal help, teachers (adults) who don’t talk down on students, finish football stands, fix leaks, unite different people (make different be okay not embarrassing, painting hall wals, accommodating teachers.
• 15 to 20 years looking forward, I want to see green, less homeless on the streets, more services provided for those who can’t afford things not catering only to those who look wealthy. More kindness shown and more people taking action. Kids in happy homes, less stray animals, how kids are raised and being made open-minded to the children of this world.

2/11/26 – Group 1

• I want to see a school more open to learning types and a community where there are more events people to bring people closer.
• More open centers in school for calming teenage boys. And more job opportunities for teens/high school.
• The school is bigger (in students).Elderly are happy.
• A better America for all
• Improve homeless shelters, respectful communities, clean parks, better roads, locally owned companies, better sports teams.
• We can have music for class to listen to that we like.
• There isn’t much wrong with the school as it stands, some people just don’t want any rules at all and that’s just not realistic. We could get some more technology that could help learn a little more.

2/11/26 – Group 2

• Everyone has a good attitude, everyone cares for each other, socializing.
• Everyone be welcome and open to education if they want to pursue that.
• I want the way of teaching to change, they’ve been the same for generations. The way of work and jobs as well. People actually taking part of assisting. Also recess and nap time. Lessen electricity bill and recovering social like.
• My vision is one where we can make Bosse better, through things like paid driving classes and more bilingual teachers to help students. As well as having some way to be able to go outside similar to recess. As well in the area we can have certain things like more jobs and work. Positions available for high school, with housing situation being more affordable. Along with funding and programs for the Booze district.
• I see a future of vibrance and diversity, not just among people but among wildlife, neighborhoods, cities, schools. In schools I would like to see more respectful teaching environment where people can work with teachers and classmates. I’d also like to see a more green environment among houses, ground and buildings alike. Expanding our comfortable even if it takes a while.
• Allowing people to have a good education and kids being able to hang out. Technology being reduced significantly. A world without harsh AI. More efforts to create greenery. Everyone knowing each other having free city events to any people together. Funding retirement.
• Have a communication class. Stop loneliness and laziness. Have more Spanish music. Have more jobs. Have more Haitian food. Have a better tennis team.
  Stop loneliness and laziness.
• I believe that in the future Boose can have different rules and can also be more fun, more creative in activities in general, and something specific would be that Latinos can participate in each activities.
• I don’t know how well it is because I like your down and making friends having babies with me fears a good future.

4/15/26 – Group 1

• More pep rallies, Japanese learning, sculptures, housing better, buses.
• Students coming in orderly and not excited and properly cleaned school no messes, restaurants on the insides, kids wearing what they want and programs more available to all students, more easing everyone’s passions and work drive with teachers pushing students towards As.
• My vision of the future would be everyone being kind to one another, and happiest all around.
  Like to see the courtyard weeded
• Things that could be changed for the better, could be the huge problems that are occuring. People could come together to do stuff better for the community.
• More everything, bigger, better, stronger or be none at all.
• New equipment for the students, cleaner environment, remodeled cafeteria, a very strong school spirit, lots of energy.

4/15/26 – Group 2

• clean environment, positivity, no fights
• clean environment, gardening, fundraisers, no fights, better lunches
• things nearby will increase in price like gas and convenience stores. the school will be strict to get into and there will be a free to take classes
• more job-based opportunities, one-on-one help more often, historic artifacts on Bosse’s origin, more fundraisers for bosse
• clean streets
• my vision is that prices will go up indefinitely, but the environment will be clean. It will be hotter than normal, but we