Stahlke Adoption

Rachel's Story, Part VI

The schools in this huge new country were different also. The first thing is that the teachers [in the U.S.] were all taught in school for at least two years or more, so they had a better idea of what they were doing than the teachers in Ukraine. Another reason is that in Ukraine there was no such thing as a private school. Here you can find one anywhere. This is probably because there are so many different races and cultures here. I personally think this is better because I don't like the little churches squashed into some little place they could find. The schools here are so much bigger and have so many different people I can't even start to say them all. Here in the U.S., students have so many different choices of things to do for after-school programs. And I like it because you don't have to choose between two activities, [but] you have like five choices. Here you don't go to school on Saturdays, and it's usually from eight to two forty-five. Breaks are much shorter here, but we still like to have them. In this country, you also can send your younger children to daycare if they don't go to school, so you can go to work. So these are some ways the schools are not the same in the U.S., as they are in Ukraine.

To be continued . . .

posted by Stahlkes @ 10:36 AM