I had interviews with Sammuel high school students. To make sure the privacy of students who I interviewed, I will write them with anonymity. I asked them about the advantages and disadvantages with the school system. Also, I asked about what things are needed for this school and what is the most different point with other normal public schools. The students had responded really well with my interview.
My first question was about the advantages of our school. One student said the most powerful advantage is that we can have really good relationships with teachers and friends. She said that the relationships between students and teachers can not be compared with any other schools. We are loved by every single teachers. Also, she said it is same between friends.
The other advantage what students said was that there is no feelings of competitions between students at all. As it was the first advantage, students love each others. So they are not feeling like they have to beat them up in scores. They teach them each other if they spend hard time on some subjects. Especially, they help hard each others in math and english.
The second question was about disadvantages. The most opinions about disadvantage was that we don't really have realistic data for entering universities. 11th graders are the highest graders. So we are the first generation to go to universities in Sammuel high school. But we are not like other public schools and we don't have much data. Also, after taking tests in our school, we can't know our places in every subjects. We don't know how much we are good at or bad at.
As a consequence, students need more data and specific systems for universities. But most students are satisfying with relationships. And some students pointed out our attitudes. Even we are in christian school, we still use lots of cuss words or act badly. We have to be different with people in the world. I think like this, either. And I hope our school to be better.
I like your essay, and I could agree with almost every parts of your essay. Our school's adventages and disadventages were described very well throughout your essay.
ReplyDeleteOne part I'm curious about is your 'second adventage', that we have no feeling of competition at all. I also agree that it is one of the best adventages of our school, but I think it can also be one of our disadventage in academic area. How do you think about it?