When I lived in Lagos, Nigeria I attended Greensprings school at Lekki. I am the third child of four. Cost of attendance since grade school was over 20,000 Naira per child per semester. The school I went to was a private uniform boarding school. This is where I learned the British English language.We had school buses, but most of the students including myself did not use them because we had our family chauffeurs. Many of us were involved in many organizations at school, including school representatives, sports and more. Our schools were divided in half. We did not have elementary school from Pre-K -5th, middle school from 6th grade - 8th, and high school from 9th-12th grade. We had primary and secondary school. Primary school was from Pre-K to 7th grade, and secondary school was from 8th grade to 13th. These two separate schools were still taught at the location …show more content…
I was involved in being a prefect. To earn the title of being a prefect was a huge honor. I patrolled the school and made sure everything was running like it was supposed to, and if it wasn’t I was to report to my senior prefect who would then report to our headmaster of the primary school. My two older siblings we’re senior prefects who did a little more than I did because they were dealing with not only incidents during school hours but in residential halls as well. I was too young to be enrolled in boarding school at Greensprings but my older sister and brothers were enrolled. So while I was at home they lived at school. I barely saw my siblings due to the number of people enrolled was so massive it would hard to find them. I also did not have a cellphone to contact them because according to my parents I was too young, so I was stuck having to figure stuff out on my own. Not being able to be in boarding school limited some activities I could have been part of but did not stop me from doing
School was very different but also kind of the same when my grandma went to school. My grandma did not have any extra classes like
Since I was six years old, my parents decided to divorce. I was shocked because we were six siblings. After divorcing, I lived with my father and he could not bear responsibility for my siblings and I. I was the biggest concern for him because I have twins and he could not be able to take care about two children who have same age. My oldest sister decided to take care of me and she became my mother. She helped me a lot and she became everything for me. Some days, I got some annoyance from my relatives. They
I started to school at age five in 1894. The first two schools were taught in a large one room log house that was almost on the edge of the Greensburg highway. The original
My family had moved to Oregon when I was 7 into hunter’s run apartments and we moved AGAIN when I was 9 to SW Bonnie Meadow Ln, into a fairly nice house. Now, as older children do when they have younger siblings, I didn’t get much attention, but I did have many more responsibilities. Most of which were chores or keeping an eye on my brother, John, and my sister, Mikayla. Mikayla was by all means the closest to me at the time and John was just my younger brother whom my mother adored. Our relationships, however do change but that’s
My sister and I would often play or hangout with them but my mother was very strict with these visits and would only let us hangout once maybe twice a week. Despite this however life was good to me, I had good friends, lived in a nice house across the street from my elementary school.
There was equality among everyone. Academically, the school was extremely challenging. To adjust to the education, I had to change my entire routine. My routine back home was going to school, watching TV.
My brothers got to go out with friends and come home late at night while my older sister would never be able to do that. Even to hang out with friends during the day was impossible. My brothers were allowed to have girlfriends but my parents would not let my older sister to even have guy friends. I was young at the time so this did not really affect me but this did affect my sisters social
We played in the creeks and we played softball in the summer and touch football in the fall and basketball in the wintertime. I never rode the bus until I was in 9th grade going to Tygarts Valley. Back in those days, you didn’t have the peer pressure. Kids and parents looked out for one another. Growing up, I wanted to be a coach and the governor of West Virginia.
Change does not always come easily! As the author and journalist Gail Sheehy once said, “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” I learned this when my siblings left for college. Being young, five years old, and naive, I believed that my siblings would always be with me, even though they are twelve and seven years older than me.
Primary schools were created were children would start at age 5 and then leave at age 11. The school leaving age was also raised to 15. (Talk about the norwood report) The LEAs (local education authorities) organised schools into grammar schools, secondary modern and technical schools, the 11+ tests would then determine what school a child would go to. The central government adopted a tripartite system that intended about 15% of 11 year olds should go to the grammar schools, 15% to the technical schools and the remaining 70% should be educated in secondary moderns.
For my first nine years, we used to live in a apartment in San Luis, Arizona. An apartment that consisted of three bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen and a living room. We were all piled with one and the other. My parents and my two little sister Elizabeth and Jouselyn slept in one room. My older two brothers Carlos and Emilio in another room. My sister Lesly and I slept together in another room. After school my siblings and I would spent most of our time outside. My brothers would roamed around with their bikes, play soccer with the kids next doors, and play videogames in their home. My sisters and I would played with any kid that was outside. We would played hide and seek, tag, collect white garden snails, climbed on trees, and anything else
In Nigeria, not everyone has the opportunity to quality education. Throughout life I have had several disruptions on my educational path. I attended school until my father’s business went bankrupt, combined with the local terror in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Afterwards, Family and I began a series of migrations in search of a better life, In the process, we migrated to several different countries with different education
My school experience has helped define me as a person and has helped guide me through life. I attended a public school in Perry, Iowa. There was a small public school in my town, but it only taught through eighth grade, so everyone attended the same high school. During high school I participated in dance team, football and basketball cheerleading, marching band, color guard, concert band, jazz band, pep band, choir, select choir, drama, Resistance Skills Leaders, National Honor Society, GSA, Skills, Big Buddy, Fellowship of Christian Athletes and speech.
I did not attend an elementary school, I was homeschooled. Therefore, there are a plethora of differences. I did not have different teachers, I did not interact with other students, and technology was considerably less impressive back then.
My education began in fifth grade, my parents moved from one location to another. It wasn’t easy for me, because school was the first place I ever got to interact with other kids. Before school started, I was pretty much kept indoors and not allowed to have contact with other people, except for my family members.