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Benefits of Attending Boarding School for the Arts

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Some might ask why anyone would even begin to want to leave home for something like high school. Why would you leave your home, your friends, your family? It is indeed a good question, one which I will answer in this essay. The most important reason I want to go to boarding school is for the arts. Don’t get me wrong; I love my school. It is an arts magnet school, of course, and does have a partial emphasis on them, but I want to go somewhere where the whole school is focused on what I love to do most: perform. At GCHS, 70% of the students I’ve met only care about sports. It’s difficult to feel passionate about something you love when everyone just shoots it down for ‘important’ things. Of course, the administration aren’t like that, but …show more content…

The class selection is more diverse as well. Recently, they brought in a new class that essentially allows students to ‘play detective’: Forensic science. Finally, there’s one big difference between public school and boarding school: Saturday classes. Walnut Hill has weekly Saturday classes, which take place during Saturday morning. This gives you even more time to learn, also less free-time, but it keeps you busy—you’re always engaged, always learning, and never bored. Most boarding school classes operate very differently from those at public school. At public school, your teachers get tired of you trying to engage them with multiple questions—they’re there to teach, gosh dang it, not listen to students and their stupid ramblings. At boarding school, the class structure is much less like a lecture hall and much more like a conference meeting: everyone offers input and it’s nearly impossible for you to remain silent and unengaged. This means that you won’t end up like the guy in front of me in geometry who simply sits and scrolls Facebook because no one has enough time to just sit and discuss his issues and grades with him. Boarding school also contains incredible resources. A weight room, swimming pool, fully-stocked library, and amazing theatre facilities are some of the ones at Walnut Hill. Because you have such great resources, it’s not difficult for one to find a good accelerated-reader book for English class, nor is it difficult to read up on that new

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