• Life in a public school

  Filed under dchs88
  Oct 8

  By Nina Margarita Castrillo / Child Communicator

  BEING in a private school for nine years straight made me think that that’s all there is to schooling. But when I moved to a new school I found out that there is a whole new world out there.

  When I first entered my new school, it was a bit hard for me to get used to it. It was hot, muddy and by the looks of it, over-populated. But every bad news has good news and lots of interesting facts. Like, did you know that there are around 2,000-plus first year students alone, and that there are 48 sections for that year level? And this very school started on 1922 but was only proclaimed as a national high school just recently.

  There, instead of teachers moving from one classroom to another for different subjects and classes, the students are the ones who move from place to place.

  When it is raining, then you need an umbrella. When it’s hot, then you still need an umbrella.

  And there are a lot of different kinds of sections. There’s the special class or the node, the honor class, the general section and the SPA also known as special program for the arts.

  I don’t know if our lunchtime is longer or shorter. All I know is in the special section, our lunch time is at 11:16 12 o’clock. And the honor class and the special section have more subjects than the other sections.

  And academically speaking, I find this school very nice. Because here all the students have an even chance to go and compete.

  For example in Math Quiz Bee. To join the Math Quiz Bee, all the students will take the phase one, and so on. Not like in my old school they just choose the students. So its unfair for the rest.

  For the contests and competitions there, there are field demos and more contests than you can imagine. It wasn’t like this in my old school where there were but a few.

  Especially in the SPA, there are a lot of students who play the guitar so well. The dance troupe have a whole host of dances to perform.

  Indeed there’s a whole new world out there in our public schools, an I just realized that now.

  *****

  Nina Margarita del Rosario Castrillo or Meg, 13, is a first year student at the Davao City National High School.

  Meg is a member of the Children and Youth Communicators’s Team of the Sixth Countrywide Programme for Children (CPC VI).

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