MY DREAM SCHOOL
I spend almost half
of my day at school. We have to be at school five times a week from Monday to
Friday from eight am to two pm. Then, when I come home, I eat something and
then at quarter to three I start doing my homework and studying. Usually it
takes me from three and a half to four hours a day. Of course during these
hours I take little breaks but they are no longer then fifteen minutes. Since
we spend half a day and sometimes also more at school, I would change the
chairs, because the chairs are quite bad for our back. It would also be nice to
have longer breaks because we need to eat something quietly, not too quickly,
because it creates stomachache to some of us. I think that they are not radical
changes and it would be possible to approve them.
Since I consider
education so important I spend a lot of time at school and doing homework. For
me a good education will offer a good job and a better live. A well-educated
person can’t be cheated on by anybody and that is one of the most important
things to have a safe life. Things I know, nobody can steal or take away from me.
With a good education I can choose my job and do all my life something that I love
and I’m interested in. Every lyceum or high school have to plan a similar basic
syllabus in order to give the same basis to everyone, then every school has its
own direction. For example I chose the linguistic lyceum, and the syllabus is
half covered by languages, Italian, German, English, French, Russian and
Spanish. The other subjects are Mathematics, Latin, Science, History,
Geography, Physical Education, Economics and other subjects that are added in
the third class. Our school is a linguistic lyceum, but it also gives us a
general education in order to be informed in every direction. Our timetable is
very good, but if I could choose I would add an hour a week of music, where,
who plays an instrument can practice it, and others can start to learn an
instrument, because some young people have just to be pushed to start and then
they love it and continue for a long time. Music is something incredible and it
makes you forget your problems, it is something that frees almost everybody
from their stress. The other subject I would introduce is computer science, but
not that one we already have: the teacher shows us, not even once a month, how
to use Microsoft Office, Word and PowerPoint. Nowadays it is impossible to work
without a computer. This subject is too important to not insert it into our
syllabus. During this one hour a week, we should learn and also try by
ourselves to use these programs. One of the most important things nowadays is
to be able to write with ten fingers. In the future nobody can work at an
office without being able to write at the computer with ten fingers. Teachers
tell us, that there is no possibility to learn it at school and we can do it on
our own at home, on the Internet there are a lot of possibilities. That is
true, but we have to study all day and I don’t think that anybody has the power
to exercise in the evening, because also teenagers have to relax. They say that
the best years to learn new things is youth, so why don’t they give us the
possibility to learn more varied subjects? Adults have bigger problems to face.
To have animals
around us is very important. At home many people have dogs and cats or even
bigger animals like horses, but they don’t keep them at home they let them on a
farm. I think big animals like cows or horses are a little bit exaggerated at
school but it would be nice to have an aquarium, relaxing, and it would give
the students more inspiration. Of course the aquarium has to be cleaned and
that is a lot of work. But if the students can plan it and organize the
cleaning turns it would be wonderful. Animals give us more inspiration and we
can learn better. The beginning of a new school is to eliminate (in part) the
heavy books, which we always have to carry with us and I think it's time to get
young people used to technology. Using iPads or laptops to take notes in class
would be helpful. Other high-tech gadgets like pull-down screens and computers,
we already have them. Drawings are always creative and inspirational and to
hang them out would be a good idea. But students shouldn’t be forced to do the
drawings, but drawings by these who have time and want to do them are very
welcome. The drawings should let us feel good and invite us to learn. They deliver
imagination and at school everyone should feel welcome. So if we install
security cameras at school, which are superfluous
they keep us always controlled and under control nobody feels well or inspired.
Ours is a private school with a little quantity of students. Everyone in our
school has good manners and there is no need of a camera. At the age of
fourteen we should be old enough to behave and too much control isn't good,
because it doesn't give us the possibility to show our maturity.
To test
our maturity a school exchange would be in every way a good idea and
important for the experience of everyone. It gives us the possibility to grow,
to experiment new things, to see the world with other eyes and to get
independent. We automatically travel and see a lot of new things. There isn’t a
better way to practice a language than live for some time there where they speak
it. Students can live in families almost for free and know better the
population and the atmosphere.
Spacious classes are
fundamental. In spacious classes there is more oxygen that makes us work better
and we can also walk around and there is more place to work in teams. In
smaller rooms all teams are too close to each other and it is too loud in
class. We absolutely need bigger classrooms. Also a bigger garden with more
green and grass should help everyone to relax a bit during the break. In spring
and in the beginning of autumn sports could be thought outside. In the garden
we can also practice gym and move, what is very healthy and since we have to
study a lot a change wouldn’t be bad. It
doesn’t matter what we have to study but everything is hard and requires a lot
of work. Movement keeps us healthy and concentrated. Our Dream School lets us
collaborate to restructure our school program, the way of learning and studying
which in part should also be done in teams, so that we can also think about he
ideas of others and mix them with ours. Usually those ideas are the best. Of
course, my Dreams School should offer me a good education and preparation for
the future, but it should also respect my time to practice a sport, because
sport is fundamental for a healthy mind. We can study better and with the help,
ideas and experience of other students for the future.
©
Jenny Kostner
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