Comparison And Contrast High School Essay

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In my English 111 class I was asked to write a comparison and contrast paper, and only one topic could come to mind. Comparing my normal high school (Northwest) to my school of choice (Roanoke Valley Early College). If you know someone who knows both schools very well, as myself, they will tell you that the two schools are like day and night. It’s so hard to believe that if I wouldn’t have gotten accepted to RVEC I would’ve been continuing at Northwest Halifax. In recent years the things that have happened at Northwest are things that will leave you speechless in amazement that this really happens at a high school here. Let’s start with the students, I started 7th grade with the sophomores at Northwest now, and when I transferred in middle school I was terrified then, it’s like 20x worse at Northwest. Most of the students have no respect for the staff, and you will often hear about students and staff fighting. Not only are they disrespectful to the staff they are disrespectful to visitors as well. When our softball team traveled to play their softball team, I can’t even list how …show more content…
We transfer to the high school for practices, and we’re very accepted over there for sports. Our football team always at least makes it to the first round playoffs, our varsity basketball team always gets Conference Champs in the Christmas Tournament, and very often in the regular season. Our cheerleaders, are known as one of the best teams in the conference as well too. Baseball and softball needs some work but they faithfully beat Northwest every year. Overall, this paper was to give an insight on what my home high school is like and what my school of choice is like and to tell why they are like night and day. I wouldn’t trade my high school for any high school ever because of the feeling you get at RVEC. I love it and I’m so grateful of this wonderful

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