Has anything changed?
Nov. 22nd, 2010 12:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elarbeeIsn't it great that American schools have lockers? My school in Minsk didn't, and from what I've seen, no schools in the former Soviet space have them. Right? A communal wardrobe (where my outer clothes were stolen more than once), an inadequate shelf in your desk to keep your stuff and a culture that lacks privacy. I think it's detrimental to personality development, but I'm not a professional or anything.
I remember starting middle school in America and so many things were new and unexplained! Homeroom, lockers, binders, ESL, nobody making you finish your disgusting lunch, (and subsidized lunch, for that matter), teachers and counselors that actually acknowledge your existence as a person... Horrible inner-city school that was later closed for failure was still superior compared to Soviet education. Although, I did get beat up about the same amount.
I remember starting middle school in America and so many things were new and unexplained! Homeroom, lockers, binders, ESL, nobody making you finish your disgusting lunch, (and subsidized lunch, for that matter), teachers and counselors that actually acknowledge your existence as a person... Horrible inner-city school that was later closed for failure was still superior compared to Soviet education. Although, I did get beat up about the same amount.
