Talking about CommunityBUILD yet again

The Rural Studio resonated with me in particular because of my time in the CommunityBUILD program. I went in wanting not only to learn how to work with my hands but also make some contribution to the community I would be living in for a year. I've reflected over my time in the program many times and I sometimes find myself conflicted about our role as architects/designers/students in this project. For those who aren't familiar with the project we completed this past year, we worked with an elementary school in Wadmalaw Island outside of Charleston to create an outdoor classroom/educational pavilion. On one hand, it was a unique experience to interact directly with the students and faculty and work with them during the design phase to understand exactly what they wanted out of this project. We met multiple times at the school to get their opinions on our schematic designs and collaborate on a final design that we felt was successful in addressing their needs and wants. We ran into problem after problem in the project moving into the construction phase and ended up having to move the proposed building site to a different area of the school property that had no connection to our original design. At this point in the project, we were really only focused on completing the construction on time and before the semester ended. A project like this has so many limitations and constraints that "real-world" projects don't face. Not only are we constrained by the timeline of a school semester or two, but we're limited by ourselves in that we are just students in a class, learning as we're constructing. At what point do we draw a line between creating architecture that successfully responds to the community and completing a design project for school credit? It would be ideal to have both and be successful in all facets of the project, but that just doesn't happen and I think that is where these CommunityBUILD/Rural Studio projects fall short. We do our best, but is that enough?