Advisory Blog Assignment 3/7/07
On Monday, we will be visited by members of the Senior and Junior Class from the Queens High School of teaching.
In order to introduce ourselves to them, we're going to post responses on this blog to the following questions. Each question should be followed by a response of at least one paragraph.
Questions.
1. In what ways has your decision to go to a small high school benefitted (helped) you?
2. In what ways has your decision to attend a small high school not helped you, or held you back?
3. What is the most important thing you need to know about going to high school in a small-school setting?
posted by Mr Tesler @ 5:03 PM
11 comments
11 Comments:
1. the way a small high school benefitted me is by knowing the teacher more. The teachers in our school know us as individual people not just sudents.therefore they can help us do better.
2. It didnt have a lot of things a normal highschool does, and it has a lot of restrictions, such as letting us out for lunch.
3. I need to know how you dealed with your problems .
-Navin
There have been many ways going to a small school benefited me. I am taking very advance classes any normal freshman wouldn’t be allowed to take. Also all my teachers care about how well I’m doing and how my performance is.
The only way going to a small school held me back is by not having some of the programs a normal school would have. Also there are many limitations small schools have such as funding which is completely understandable.
Will things get better as time goes on?
Frank Vellucci
1. By going to this school i learned how to become a better writter.
2. Honestly i really wasn't looking foward to coming to this school. I really wanted to go to Holy Cross High School. But if my grade go up, i plan to transfer when i get my next report card.
3. The most important thing that you have to know about going to a small highschool is that is is really different. You will want to transfer out the first week. that is what i wanted to do but instead i decided to get my grades up and then transfer out. There isn't a lot of kids in the school. That mkght be good for some people. But You really have to knoe that a small new highschool isn't the same as a real highschool.
1. It helped me because I get the personal attention that I neerd to suceed. If I need nelp with with anything I can get it easily.
2. I get more attention than I usually want so people are always on my back.
3. Don't try to do stupid things because people will find out because you are in a really enclosed place.
1.it has help mi becaues like theres not so many pepole techers give extra help and it boosts youre grade up.
2.well it hasent held mi back but becaues it is a small school alot of frends that i have dont iven no that this school iven is on the map.
3.that youre going to no every body in the school and youre going to get extra help.
BY:omar valdez
My decision to go to a new small highschool hasn't really benifited me in any way, but on the contrary it has held me back a little. When I first came to the school I didn't like it all, but I wanted to give it a chance. I think this school has alot of restrictions, and we don't have most of the privaliges that the other highschools have. Because of all the restrictions and other things like that, I've been doing bad in school for arguing with teachers and things like that, but they keep promising us new and better things for us in the next year. [ not finished ]
Renzo C.
1.Going to a new highschool helped me in a way showing me you dont need a big school to have a good education. In a way im less distracted.
2. A new school doesnt have much accomplished as like a highschool that has more students and has been there for a couple years, like P.E class. Well this school didn't help me in a way beacause the restrictions there is to m uch rules.
3. be prepared for the dramitic changes.
FREDRICK LLUBERES
Parth Patel
1) A small high school has benefitted me by going up to the teacher and telling them i don't understand.
2) I knew from before since this is a small high school it wont have all the materials you need for a high school. But l am still ok with that
3) The most important thing i need to know about a small high school is that to be prepared for the changes the school makess because the staffs cant make up their mind
On March 12, 2007 I went to a new school called World Journalism Prep High School. I didn’t know what to really expect. I knew that this was a school starting off much like mine and I was eager to hear the thoughts and ideas of these freshmen that are much like how I was.
As soon as I walked in the school and through the halls of the third floor which was the floor for the high school kids, I sensed a feeling of ownership as the kids walked in the halls or in their classes like they knew they were the high school kids and were in charge.
When I sat down with Mr. T, his class of boys, Mr. Brown and Joanna I looked around the room with these boys in uniform expect one. As the boys expressed their thoughts and about what a high school should look and feel like I couldn’t help but see a little Vishnell in so many of them. They were confused, mad, and didn’t expect their high school experience to be like this.
Edward and Fernando explained how they felt not having sports teams, dances, having the lower classes in their building, and not having any role models in the school to look up too. I remember when I first came to my school and I can’t help but say I felt almost entirely the same. How are you supposed to know what’s right and wrong when you are holding the responsibility to making this high school and its future. I learned in a small school to make events or anything else come about you have to help make it happen. Since there aren’t that many kids in the school to begin with you are helping create the school to what it will be in the years that will come. You have to see the good of it because as the years go by they will know that they are the first class of World Journalism so they will be the voices and the kids who will make a difference in the school.
I used to want to transfer schools so bad during my freshmen year. I am so happy I didn’t or else I would have been just another ID number, another girl with a loud voice that’s unheard and misunderstood. Being in a small school gives you an advantage of making it easier to socialize and having a relationship with a teacher that will help guide you too better success.
A boy named Freddie expressed how he disliked uniforms when he was one of the only ones not wearing one. Honestly I would love to wear uniforms and not worry about what to pick out for the next day and waste my time. Edward also said to Mr. Brown that he feels like he is in a private school with all the rules and regulations. Mr. Brown replied with “you know how much tuition you have to pay in private schools and what do you pay here”? I though that was such a valid point. To be in a school with the attentions, rules and expected behavior that people usually pay a lot of money for but you are getting that education and respect for free. There are so many great things you can receive from a school like theirs and mines. You learn not to be inconsiderate to others, talk to people you thought you would never talk too, and learn not to say words or expressions that we take for granted. No other high school is really sitting down and trying to talk about things in life that are relevant to us as young teenage students. Even if they were it wouldn’t have the same impact because in a small school you know almost everyone and our more comfortable talking to one another. You are helping making a difference. I took in a lot from my school and have changed for the good in my eyes because I got to learn in a small school.
To end this I want all the boys I talked to in the school to know how much I appreciated being a guest in their school and talking to them. Thank you for listening to me. I couldn’t help but smile and think how much we have in common. It seems like just yesterday I was sitting in your seat and trying to see the good qualities of being in a small school. My advice is to give it time and don’t rush to transfer to another school. Mr. T, with your ambition and goals for these students I feel you can change the minds of your children and take this school far. Remember to value what you are receiving in this school that no other school would be able to provide you with. We are the students that will be able to better ourselves with the privileges we get from a small school.
Vishnell, thanks so much for attending our meeting. I can't tell you how valuable your insight, honesty and comments were. I think you really helped change some minds. Hope that you, Mr. Brown, and everyone else will visit again!
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