Charter School Educational Advantages Essay

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One educational advantage that I have taken advantage of would be coming to a charter school to help my education grow. I had to a choice to g to a regular traditional school or to go to a public charter school, I chose the charter school. When I first entered the middle school charter, I knew it would be hard and I wanted to challenge my self. The first couple of weeks the teachers took it easy on us, but after that they started to teach. To surprise, it was not to hard. I had thought it would be a little challenge but it was not too bad. After sixth grade we had gotten used to everything and moved to seventh grade. Seventh was basically the same as sixth, it was not too bad either. Eighth grade was hard for me though. It was finally the …show more content…
Since, I am going to high school, I had a choice. To either go to my home school or continue on with the charter school to high school. My choice was clear and I continued on to high school with the charter. In ninth grade, I took my first AP class. It was considered one of the most hardest class, it was AP art history. Art history was not too bad for me, I struggled a little, but passed the class with an A. The most struggle I had with ninth grade was that we had to take chemistry and biology in a semester each. The first semester, I took chemistry. You are supposed to take Chemistry when you are a tenth grader, and I took when I was a freshmen. The second semester, I took biology. I passed both of these classes, but it was a real struggle. I had to dedicate a lot of my time to these classes. In tenth grade, a took my first real college course. It was a dual enrollment course, and it was called guidance 100. It was not too hard, it was going over the basics of college and how to apply to one. It also covered what work habits you should have when entering college. That class I took in the first semester, since it was a one semester class I had to take another college

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