I think one of the main components of highschool is allowing students to grow in their education and mental abilities, as well as socially. So, when you guys were in highschool (or still are), did the the enviornment let you develop in this way? If it did or didn’t, why not?
Yes.
I don’t like my high school and sometimes I think I may have been better off going somewhere else but my school has opened my eyes to a lot of things that will still be relevant even when I graduate.
Certain parts of high school helped me grow. They were not always the academics. For instance doing the program “We the People” really opened my eyes to the way government works and helped me become a better public speaker. Doing yearbook and newspaper helped me become more outgoing. I was very introverted at the start of high school but after interviewing so many people, by the end of senior year people would oddly enough describe me as “extroverted.”
I felt like I had better study habits in middle school, but high school did challenged me, but in some ways I feel like the immense pressure/standarization in high school did not always foster that sense of curiosity and love of learning as it did in the earlier grades. College has revived that curiosity.
Socially? During middle school I never dreamed of asking a girl to a dance. By the end of high school I had asked three, the one from my senior year was my crush 