School Culture

A positive school culture becomes evident in the students. After being at Lxxxx for a number of weeks I have noticed that the students here really seem to be kids. What do I mean by this? Well from I’ve seen last semester and what I have heard from my fellow cohort students it seems that middle grade students these days want to grow up before their time.
The single gender class rooms at Lxxxxxx seem to allow the students to socially develop more freely. In the classroom the boys have more of an opportunity to be boys. For example, at lunch time they go outside and play football on the blacktop and it is really pretty cool to see how they interact and get along. This I believe is not only due to being in single gender but because they also stay with the same group of guys for most of their classes. It’s the same with the girls. The girls as a whole seem to participate in classroom discussions with less apprehension and more openness. The close knit culture of the students at Lxxxxx, where leadership is an important part of their education, helps create a positive classroom environment where students often encourage each other with positive comments and praise.