American High School: Image Of Freedom
I am an exchange student from Italy and for all my life I’ve been dreaming of being a student in an American High school, because they’re so much cooler. American schools offer lunch, free water, after school activities, air conditioning and Saturdays off. Rules are less strict: there are no oral tests, no dress code (about crop tops, hoods, caps, shoes, shorts, skirts), you can eat in class, sit however you want and teachers aren’t constantly screaming at you. Students can change their classes, classrooms and classmates, unlike in Italy where you have to choose your school at 13, meaning that you’ll sit in the same room, with the same 25 people, studying the same subjects for the following five years, so it’s not the students who walk around school, but the teachers. In American high schools, freedom of expression and mental health are priorities.
