The most important part of your life, some say. The best years of your life said others. The part of your life that determines who you will be when you get older they all say. High school, the four years before college or getting a job and going into the real world. Over the years high school has changed drastically. I talked to my dad about his experience in high school and how different it was from mine. My dad graduated high school in the year 1987 from Tahanto Regional High School in Boylston Massachusetts. His high school had about 500 students and one building that was surrounded by athletic fields. The high school’s newest technology was an intercom system and pay phones. There were no computers and for research and you had to use …show more content…
High school years ago was not like the movies. For one you did have rules and they did have to be followed. When my dad was in high school, he only ever got a detention for being tardy three times in a semester. Some of his friends got detention for talking back to teachers or even smoking in the bathrooms. When you got detention you did homework or cleaned the chalkboards and erasers. When you were a senior at my dad’s high school you were also allowed to go to lunch off campus. The seniors also had senior skip day when his whole senior class skipped school. Some rules have stayed the same since then and others have …show more content…
You have to go into a new atmosphere with many new people and rules. It can be hard to figure out where you fit in and belong. This has stayed mostly the same for past and present. High school has always been a new atmosphere and experience. When my dad was in high school he loved to play sports with his friends, go to school dances, and hang out with friends. There were no football teams at my dad’s high school because it wasn’t a big enough high school, so in the fall you watched soccer, field hockey, and track. My dad ran cross country in the Fall, played basketball in the Winter, and played baseball in the Spring. His school was surrounded by athletics fields much like any other high school past and present. School dances had music, dancing, and each one had a different theme. They were locally decorated by the students based on the theme of that particular dance. At lunch, he sat with all his friends. The lunches were typical and always had the same meals. There were no snacks that you could buy, just what was being served for
Every person has different personalities that they develop during different stages in life. Many personalities start with parents and how they educate their children. That is the basis of who someone is. Once you get older you start to finally try and figure out who you are. High school can be either the best or the worst place to figure it out. High school is usually thought of a new scary place when starting freshmen year. There are kids who will be older and you will meet different types of people that you might have never met before. The way parents treat their kids can affect their school life. Meaning that if student’s lives at home are not good living conditions that can cause a gap between other students at school. The movie Carrie made in 1976, Carrie was bullied at school but also in way by the hands of her mother who also bullied her at home.
I have been to so many different schools that I cannot even count them all using all 10 fingers. You would think that by now I would be used to being the new kid, but with every move it just gets harder and harder. I have learned that it is harder to be the new kid when you are older versus when you are younger. As a kid it is cool to be the new kid and everyone wants to be your friend. In high school it is the complete opposite. Unless you approach them, most high school students won’t even bother talking to you. Every time that I think I have finally made a friend, I am almost immediately shot down. I am beginning to feel like I don’t belong
It's quite difficult transitioning from being the biggest to back to being the smallest. In eighth grade, you've finally become comfortable with your peers, the school, and even the teachers, and it's gone in a matter of a couple months. My perception of high school was extremely terrifying because it was an academy where I didn't really know anyone because it was slightly far. It seems so easy when you already know someone at the school because they can help guide you around, but to a zoning that's a twenty minute distance it's difficult. I expected the least, honestly. I knew that the halls would be packed, getting to classes would be confusing, and teachers would continuously give homework, but no one said it would be so much more. Moving
Making the transition from middle school to high school is a huge stepping stone in a teenager’s life. High school represents both the ending of a childhood and the beginning of adulthood. It’s a rite of passage and often many teens have the wrong impression when beginning this passage. Most began high school with learning the last thing on their mind. They come in looking for a story like adventure and have a false sense of reality created through fabricated movie plots acted out by fictional characters. In all actuality high school is nothing like you see in movies, television shows, or what you read about in magazines.
High school in the 21st century is a lot different than it was for people in generations older than us (Our parents, their parents etc). Today we go to school with many different races/ethnicities, religions, political affiliation, and genders/ sexuality are present here at Central Valley High School in the 21st century.
There are always certain groups in every high school that seem to stand out, the popular one, the wannabe, the nerd and the sleepy one. The popular one tends to always have someone to talk to in the hallways and has a full weekend planned. The wannabe is in the sought-after group, but never talks much and just seems to laugh along with the groovy kids because they are afraid to be rejected by these people. The nerd is always studying and never has time to do anything else but study. The sleepy one doesn’t do very well in class because... they are always taking a snooze. The only thing these people have in common is one thing, they all are in school and live in the same society. Naturally, you see all of these same people as you do in school
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High school is where I had gained an awareness about how what I 'm learning in school is going to benefit me in the real world. I learned an retain a variety of information because the things that I did learn I felt like you would need to know to survive in the real world. A perfect example of this is driver 's ed where I learned to drive something that I do everyday frequently. Another reason why I learned and retain so much I because when I got into high school is around the same time I got my first job. This definitely opened the door in showing me how what I 'm learning in school applies to everyday work activities such as knowing and counting money this is where math comes in. Being able to talk and communicate writing and verbally this is where English comes in. All things that I needed to do in everyday
It was the tremendous amount of arguments amongst my parents over our tight financial debt, which taught me how to manage, respect, and organize money responsibly during my junior year. It was the numerous divorce arguments I heard from my bedroom walls, which taught me that love is not only demonstrated through words, but through actions. It was the death of my favorite cousin, my best friend, Suleiman, which caused me, to be thankful and joyous for every day I have on this Earth. I never knew the happenings in one year could impact my future. It was the social pain of junior year that taught me to be my true self and embrace my suppressed self.
George F. Will’s “College President’s Plan: Abolish High School” conveys ideas that had never crossed my mind. He states, “For various reasons, some rooted in American history and others reflecting recent developments, education has become, for the moment, the most salient social concern and therefore the most potent political issue.” Will introduces Leon Botstein, who doesn’t actually option to abolish high school, just to change the structure of our schools in general. Botstein says that high school was created for 15- to 18-year-olds who were still children. In today’s society, those children are now young adults who are physiologically and psychologically more advanced.
In the 1910s, the concept of Junior High schools started to broaden. The purpose for it was to help adolescent transition from elementary to high school. Many recognized that many of the adolescents that transition from elementary school to high school were having problems staying in school, keeping their grades up and developing socially. However good intention it was based, there were some gaps and failures in the movement. Many junior high schools didn’t captivate the interest of the students. The curriculum was very rigorous; almost comparable to high
Going into the first semester of college, it was difficult to know what to expect. I have no older sibling, and only one older cousin who had told me the biggest change was the social aspect. When he told me this earlier in the summer of this year, I didn’t really know exactly what he meant by that, because I always felt that the social aspect of school was something that came naturally, as a result of being in the same room with people for almost 180 days.
Through out life people go through so many hardships. Whether it be good or bad there is always something that comes out of the situation. One of the most exciting but yet scariest events would be graduation. For a lot of people, graduating from high school is a goal. It takes a lot of time and effort to achieve that goal. In the long run, it opens a lot of opportunities for people to succeed. Graduation is the end of high school, and the beginning to life.
College has way more people than high school so different groups will show up. In high school, people flock to the cool kids that have all new gadgets and expensive clothing and in college the kids are very poor and just want to save money, so they don’t mind what they wear. While in college, most people will wear whatever because they don 't care what other people think of them, while in high school, it 's all about doing whatever the most cool kids are doing. In both college and high school, you will make friends that you will have for life. In some cases, kids will find the group that fits them the best in high school instead of college and will stick with that group throughout college.
You know, it is really strange how quickly time passes, after spending my whole childhood wishing I was an adult, now here we are and it's a little hard to grasp. It feels like just yesterday I was standing here in the same position at eighth grade graduation. Ahh, middle school, such a joyous time for all of us, free of maturity and not a care in the world. The biggest decisions I ever had to make then was deciding which group to stand with at passing time and choosing which shirt from my extensive collection of Stussy and No Feat apparel to wear. We were all naive to the danger that lurked just around the corner. We were unaware that the carefree world we lived in was about to come crashing to the ground in a blazing inferno of real school work and responsibility ... otherwise known as high school.