...I have learned to be more responsible and independent young women. Now that I am getting older, I more aware of my actions. I am more mature than before because I am in 8th grade, a year before high school. High school is one of the most important years of my life and I need to make mine. It would get me closer and closer as an adult. I want to great career ahead of me and I am proud that I reached my goal to act and be more mature. When I get accepted to Phillips Exeter Academy, I can’t depend on my family. This will also teach me how it really is to be independent. I will never be alone, because Phillips Exeter Academy will be my 2nd home. It wouldn’t feel like I left my home because I am surrounded by people who love me. Two of my best friends, Adrian Costa and Kennedy Fana, are applying to Phillips Exeter Academy. This definitely wouldn’t make me feel like I left. Even in whichever home I am, I will be my own person. Exeter will even teach me even more things that I would like to learn on my own. There is still 5 years ahead of me when I am legally an adult, but at this time I don’t want to be known as the little 13-year-old girl. I want everyone to recognize me as I smart, bright young woman. I hope when I graduate from Exeter, I will be only known as a smart, bright young woman. Writing all of this even makes me feel independent and responsible because I choose to apply to Phillips Exeter Academy. It wasn’t a demand, I choose it. I made sure that everything was completed...
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...Reflection #5 My Experience with Loss I have not experienced any significant loss in my life yet however my parents got divorced when I was a senior in high school. I went to boarding school known as Tabor Academy, which was only 45 minutes away from home. I remember I was so glad to go to boarding school because at the time my parents were fighting a lot. This was a place where I could go to get away from all of the drama that was happening at home. My two brothers also went to other boarding schools. We enjoyed going to school away from home in order to not deal with our parents. One weekend my senior year, I was eighteen years old, my brothers and I came home. Our parents sat us down and told us how they were no longer going to be able to make it work. At the moment we were told this I broke down in tears. It felt like this had come out of nowhere. Even though I knew that our parents were fighting a lot I just thought that is what couples did sometimes. I had so many thoughts running through my head such as whom would I live with or would we move far away? I asked my parents whether or not it was our fault that they were breaking up. It now seemed like things would be so complicated. During this time music was one thing that was the most helpful. For years after my parent’s got divorced they constantly fought. They put my brothers and I in the middle of all of their arguments. It was so hard for my parents to find a way to take care of all of us together...
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...and Disadvantages of Boarding Schools? Boarding school can be a great place to meet new people and to have fun while you're at school, but day school is also a good place to go if you don't like being away from your parents or you have great friends where you are. Both are really great, but boarding school can be really fun and you get really close to the people you meet there. One cannot say that boarding school is better or Day school in comparison, while both are effective in producing good results in terms of academics, extra-curricular, social interactions etc but for some parents it's difficult to give extra-care and time to their child from the drudgery of their routine, and also due to other reasons they send their children to boarding. There are number of benefits in a boarding School. 1) Daily coexistence leads to friendships, not just among students, but also with faculty members. 2) Often Low student-teacher ratio. The median class size may be 12 students per teacher, with a student-to-teacher ratio of 6 to 1. 3) Boarding school reduces compartmentalization, because academic studies are blended with other activities, such as sports. This natural juxtaposition increases the appeal of both pursuits. 4) Provides stability not available in families where one or both parents travel or are virtually never home due to work schedules. 5) Safety of individuals residing in boarding school is typically higher than non boarding school age students in general...
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...Leadership and Organizational Behavior March 17th 2011 My Life Styles Inventory Interpretation I enjoyed taking the LSI because I like to seek individual growth so receiving results which reveal my strengths and weaknesses was like a gift to me. The LSI exercise has made me understand how my thinking and behavior affect myself and others. It has also given me the option to either choose to improve on myself or not. With that being said, the following are my interpretations of my LSI results. Part I: Primary and Backup Thinking Styles According to the LSI Styles Circumflex results, it shows my highest score as Affiliative Style (2 ‘o clock position) with a high percentile of 93. Affiliative people are described as individuals who appreciate people and enjoy being in the company of others. I also chose certain words listed by the LSI used to describe affiliative people: friendly, helpful, relaxed, tries to help others, trusted by others and warm. I was totally shocked how accurate this was regarding my personality trait especially since most of the words used in the description reflect the kind of person I truly am. I admit that I love being in the company of people because there is always so much love and happiness around. I do not like being in a negative environment where people are insulting themselves or just having a bad day in general. I always feel obliged to turn over such negative feelings because it really hurts me when I see friends, family and even strangers...
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...Jeffery to come inside and deal me my punishment. I was enrolled at a very strict Catholic school that believed in reprimanding students with a paddle. I was sent to the principle’s office because I had not eaten all of my peas during lunch, and the rule was everything must be gone from your plate before you can go outside. It had been an unlucky day, in my mind the lunch lady must have known I despised peas. Therefore I watched as she put an extra helping onto my plate. Feeling rebellious, I threw my lunch away and headed outside, but someone must have seen my act of disobedience and ratted me out. I was not outside for more than three minutes when I was called back inside and sent to the office. I immediately started crying because I knew my fate. The three foot long wooden paddle would be kissing my bottom in a matter of minutes. Was physical punishment really necessary? Through his novel David Copperfield, Charles Dickens presents different types of education and the effects it has on young David . He experiences many styles of learning and the atmospheres that go along with it. He is exposed to the kind and patient teaching of his mother, the harshness of the Murdstones and the strict demeanor of the boarding school. All of which good and bad, help prepare Copperfield for his future. Education was as important in the 19th century as it is today. Home-schooling and boarding schools were extremely common. However, only those wealthy enough received an education during...
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...before in grade school that I really didn’t understand why they took too long to read a simple sentence or a short paragraph. The movie made me wonder if, perhaps, some of them were dyslexic after all. At that time, it was either you were smart because you read fluently, or you were dull because you simply took a longer time to read simple words and sentences. There was no in between, no label for those who had a hard time reading simply because what they try to read were different from what normal people see. The movie made me realize was about parenting about how parents should love their children equally, how they should accept them whatever conditions come with them when they wanted to have. For a person still planning g to have his own family and children in the future like I, that lesson in the movie will not be forgotten easily. With that alone, my mind was already awakened to the heavy responsibility of how parents should love his child. The students involving the teacher students interaction depicted in this movie are so relevant in today’s times when you get to see and hear on television at regular intervals innovative punishment like electric shock being doled out to students. It tells about a boy, his IshaanAwasthi, who was always getting in problem at school for being so misbehaving and out of focus from his lessons. Too often, he would be caught by his trainer they dreaming and getting low grades. Because of this, his father send him to boarding school, all alone and...
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...To many high school students, 'music', 'sports', 'hobbies' are the things that shape his or her identity. To me, my experience of living in the boarding house is a huge factor which shaped my personality, in another words my identity. I went there after failing to assimilate into another school in New Zealand. Because I was not a native English speaker, it was hard for me to make a friend in an English speaking county. But at the boarding house there were many other girls that were in a similar condition as I was, being born in a different county and not being able to speak in English. I made lots of friends and was able to lead a happy boarding life there. I was also able to learn many important life lessons too. Firstly, I came to value friends much more. Secondly, I realised the importance of a family. Lastly, living in a place full of strangers gave me a chance to recognise my bad sides. They all are the pieces that make me who I am now. Firstly, my experience at the boarding house taught me to value friends more. If you were left without anyone you know well in a country you don't know much yet, you would usually feel lonely and homesick. But luckily, I was able to have a joyful boarding school life, thanks to my friends. Those 4 years I spent at the boarding house was like an endless school trip, chatting up till midnight. I shopped together with my roommates. Me and my friends did some silly things too, once in a while too, like dressing up at midnight just to take a...
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...”The Happiest Days of your Life” Penelope Lively The story is taking place in Sussex, England. It’s a rich area in the UK. You can almost sense it’s a rich environment because the school is a giant mansion, with swimming pool. That isn’t common for a boarding school. Charles family is rich too, since they can afford it. I assume Charles is an only child because the parents are sending him to that boarding school. The parent’s ambitions for the son aren’t what you would call normal. The headmaster of the school says that Charles attendance will be an investment for his parents. Most parents would see their son at a school that he or she likes, and not the other way around. Charles is maybe 6 -10 years old, since he’s attending to a preparatory school. He is very nervous. It’s seen when he sits in the car. He doesn’t want to eat his chocolate and read his comics. He’s silent through out the visit and he just follows the adults around the hallways. The most strong signal that Charles doesn’t want to attend to the school is when (and i assume) an echo is running through his head with the voice of the boy that said he would mash him next term. The headmaster and his wife isn’t described with words or thoughts of the characters but of what I’ve read i assume that the headmaster and his wife is a bit snobbish, likeable and stylish people. The title reflects the story. I suspect that the reason it’s called “the Happiest Days of your Life” and not “The Happiest Days of my Life” is...
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...My grandfather Demi All through my childhood, there are many things about my grandfather and me that I cannot forget. My grandfather has a medium height and his clear black eyes contrasted nicely with his olive tone. There was a kindness in those eyes, and they always showed his in every emotion. My grandfather let me had a sweet childhood even though I did not grew up with my parents. When I was 5 years old, my parents decided to send me to my grandfather’s house, because they were too busy with their work to take care of me. That time was the third time I saw my grandfather because we didn’t live in same city. Therefore I was clinging to my parents thighs, I cried and shouted ask them to promise to stay. Finally, they still left even though I begged. After my parents had already left, I looked at my grandfather’s face with sobbing. At first glance, I felt my grandfather has a bad temper because he looked very serious and severe although he was angry about my parents were not responsible for me. I didn’t remember how long I cried. I just remember I followed my grandfather to my bedroom that had pink wallpaper. I stood by the bed and looked as he tidied up my stuff and asked me what kind of food I wanted to eat for dinner. At that moment I could not stop crying, so I didn’t say a word. I was sobbing. He looked at me and had a sigh, and then he left me alone. I forgot how long I slept, when I woke up and went to the living room. My grandfather sat there and watched the TV news...
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...During my primary school period, I was very dependant, and reliant on my parents to help me with such things as homework, and other education based material. On course to the build of my SATS, it required me to revise for the exams, and as I was very reliant on my parents and teachers at school, I was unable to revise efficiently. However, my parents decision to send me to a private boarding school in London, for five years during my secondary school life, enabled me to gain responsibility of myself and become independent, being away for my parents and taking care of myself, were one of the factors which allowed me to adapt to an independent life, giving me the skills that not only helped me during the freedom of college, and independent work but also will help me during life at university as I’ve experienced and learnt how to be responsible of myself at a very young age. During my spare time I enjoy to play football whenever I can, and if it’s not football I’m playing its either watching live football or even be playing a football related video game. During my primary and secondary school life I was vastly involved with football related activities, whether that be football during break or even captaining the school team, competing against local schools. Also I do enjoy reading biographies and autobiographies of former and current football players, and managers, too see how became the person they are today as well as reading their opinion on former colleagues. Unfortunately...
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...national pupils are studying at UK’s boarding school with parents living overseas. There are more pupils from China and Russia obviously in these recent years. Some of the parents from China and Russia are pay more attention on giving their children more creative opportunities at school than the rote learning and difficult academic that they might gain in their own countries. “The UK system can find an area for Chinese kids who work very hard and concentrated on academics to prosper in and build their confidence.” says by Emma Vanbergen. The ability to develop an almighty person is very formulaic. It is about grades and it is about performance, but not very much about individual development. On the other hand, parents also hope their children encourage themselves in British culture and speak lingua franca of business in preparation for the global workspace. “British boarding school are very good at making children resilient adults who can earn a good living because children in boarding school do well all round and they win out in graduate labour market.” Said William Richardson. On a personal level, a child study abroad and leave his hometown is vulnerable to homesickness. Subomi at Westonbirt says she found the isolation of her boarding school difficult and has occasionally found adapting difficult. The next problem is Ghettoised communities like boarding school accepting too many national students. If a school have too many national students,...
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...Jazmin Cordova December 1, 2009 English 101 Professor Williams Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone by J.K Rowling and Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley there is some serious controversy about all the magic that is used in both these books. Magic and mythical creatures are found throughout both books. Magic is the essential theme of the books and is one of the reasons both these books have been questioned. The books have been questioned because they give children a false sense of what really happens. These books in no way are in touch with reality; the biggest question here is should these books be censored just because they are too fictional? It is the magic and the thought of a whole other type of world that opens up a child’s imagination and allows the imagination to grow. In Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone; magic is essentially what the story is focused around. Harry is a part of a whole other world where magic is socially accepted. Harry find out he is a wizard and has to decide whether or not he is going to use his powers for good or evil. In the quest to find out who he is he has to first go through the trials of learning his past and facing up with his parents murderer for the first time. Harry lived a life of neglect during his first eleven years with his Aunt and Uncle Dursley. They treasured their son Dudley and neglected Harry. Harry was forced into Dudley’s old clothes, which...
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...without courage and an option to stand up for yourself, and instead become involved in a life embossed of hierarchy. The main characters in the novel are the boy Charles, Mr and Mrs Manders. The way Penelope describes the boy’s behaviour, and the way he shows his lack of interest, makes me feel that he is a very shy, insecure and a low self-confidence boy. A boy afraid of the unknown and new. In the story the boy is very quiet. We noticed it, when Charles was in the back seat of the car. He doesn’t eat his chocolate or read his comics (p. 61, l. 1-2 “The boy sat on the back of the seat of the car, a box of chocolates, unopened, beside him, and a comic, folded”). I think it’s a sign of Charles being insecure and afraid. He knows this new school isn’t something for him. He knows that he is low in the hierarchy. But he can’t say no, he won’t disappoint his parents, especially his mom. His mom is giving him no choice to choose his own way, to take responsibility for him self, and his own actions. Charles mom has since he was a little boy held him close to her self, which might have made him introvert. She hasn’t given him a chance to flourish like a real boy. It’s unknown for Charles to take responsibility for him self, which causes it to be terrifying for him. This results in insecurity and low self-confidence. The mom is very controlling which you can see in Charles behaviour, he is very unsocial and shy. The way she controls the family’s schedule (p. 61, l. 9 “just right. Nearly...
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...Many parents with affordable means prefer their children to join a boarding school to their studying in a day-time government or public school. One of the many reasons given for this preference is that living in a hostel is necessary for discipline, academic excellence and inculcating self-discipline. One other reason is an extremely busy schedule of both the parents which forces them to part with their children, when they are young, and send them to boarding schools. Yet another factor could be the fact that both the parents are employed in different parts of the country. But nobody can deny the fact, and the actual story from the mouth of a boarder can be really moving that the children who are sent to such schools tend to suffer a lot from home¬sickness and loneliness, initially. Later on, they get used to the new routine and do quite well. Whatever the gains of a boarding school, the fact is that nothing can substitute parents while the children are growing up. It is really very cruel to send a child of 6 or 7 years of age to a boarding school. After the 6th or 7th grade, a child could be expected to cope with the problem of separation from parents, but before that it is a cruel denial of his due, i.e. care, love and affection of his father, mother and other members of the family. However, it can’t be denied that in a boarding school a child does learn values that he or she might miss at home, such as sharing, better social adjustment, initiative, leadership and the like...
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...Letter to Editor of Xin Hua News. Dear Editor, What would happen to a child with no parents to take care of them during their childhood? Nowadays in China, many children are living in the countryside without their parents. The Chinese economy is rapidly growing, causing a big income inequality between the urban areas and rural villages. More and more people from the countryside are moving to the cities to work. However, their children have to stay in the rural area because their parents cannot afford to raise them in the city. Normally, these parents come back home once a year and stay for less than one week. So, children hardly have any time to spend with their parents during their childhood. According to a recent survey, there are more than 61 million (equal to the whole population of the United Kindom) stay-at-home children in China. 57.2% of them are taken care of by one of their parents, but for 42.8% of them, both parents are absent. Of the children living without their parents, 79.7% of them are taken care of by their grandparents,13% are cared for by the parents’ friends or relatives, and for 7.3% of them it is not known who is taking care of them. As we all know, an adult’s care is important to children. Without parents to take care of them, the mental health status of the stay-at-home children may be a big hidden trouble in the future. Some people think these children still have grandparents or relatives taking care of them. However, their grandparents also need to...
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