back from delaneys
long way for a short trip
but i'm glad i got to see her and support her
i finally met Matt, what an outstanding actor... but he has some REAL self esteem issues.
So her boarding school's facilities are amazing
2 ice hockey rinks
a brand new fitness center with squash, a huge pool, etc.
the courses the can take
3 different philosophy courses
a good 2 dozen science electives including Ferensics and Neurology!!
German and Chineese.
holy ####
they have so many internationals
kids from the DR, Afghanistan, Ghana, China, Singapore, Korea, Japan, the Bahamas, Jamaica, France, Canada etc.
almost 20% of the school is like that
what diversity towerhill lacks
i had some good conversations with mr. and mrs. osborn about what towerhill lacks
he's on the board so he knows there are a lot of problems with tower hill socially
we're lacking something
he told me they're thinking of expanding the school to 70-90 kids a grade in highschool but mr. b doesnt like the idea and they don't know where to get more kids.... he even said they've suggested having some boarders....
there's something wrong with our school
unfortunatly i have to deal with it
senior year i wont cry cause i'm leaving, i'll cry cause i graduated at a place i hate.
i think there will be a great amount of change that will hopefully affect and benefit the younger generations with our new headmaster, our new facilities being built for sports, etc. I'm hoping that the lights on the turf field will spark school spirit for night games that i never got to experience
delaney's school has such spirit
they're whole school was covered with blue grafiti and Hotchkiss Rules because it was Taft Day, which is a day where their sports teams have all games with Taft their rival school, the Rhinos
it was soo cool to see all the kids come back wearing the teeshirts with their faces painted blue
i wish i felt that way about my school
i just detest it
its not that i detest the school persay
the faculty, the staff, the facilities, the courses are great(although i'd love to see more courses offered!!)
i think its the kids that really make a school
we dont have that
i wish i could have school spirit
it's been too long with out it, i've already developed an anti-THS spirit and now they're trying to introduce it to us with pep-rallies and i'm not buying in
i hope that the younger kids can grasp this
posted by The Invisible Gardener @ 11:38 AM
2 Comments:
Sure, Tower Hill isn't perfect; no school is perfect. But rather than focus on the things it lacks, it would probably be more productive to focus on the things it does have. All schools lack something, I bet Hotchkiss even sucks a little bit. I mean, you're on the inside of Tower Hill so you can see all the deficiencies, you're an outsider when you're looking at different school, plus you really hate Tower Hill so everything looks better. It's really not that bad, better than public school at least. The fact that the classes are small is actually very good because the teachers get to know the students and therefore want to offer more help. Here, I have about 25-30 kids in my classes and it took my teachers like 3 weeks to learn my name -- just my name!! Yeah, it gets boring with the same people all the time, but if you went to another school as long as you've gone to Tower, you'd be just as bored with the people there. Just because people come from different countries doesn't mean they're more interesting, it just means they were born somewhere else.
delaney's classes are even smaller than ours
its not the school i dislike its the people, i did say that in the post
i understand that i'd dislike the kids everywhere if i'd gone anywhere else for 12 years... but what i'm talking about are schools that kids come to only for highschool, like boarding school, where everything and everyone is new and different.
but mr. osborn said kids had tremendous amounts of complaints about the school
i understand that no school is perfect and i'm happy with the education i'm getting i just wish i were part of a picturesque high school experience...
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