channel and I’m a sophomore here at
columbus academy so i just would like to
ask for a little bit of audience
participation who here at any time
during your academic career was
attending a private school most of us
who here ever attended a public school
again most of us who here was ever home
school and there’s no one i was
fortunate enough to be one of these
individuals I was home-schooled by my
mother for nine years all the way
through seventh grade so I want to raise
the question to us what is the best
education system now there is this
stigma with homeschoolers as being one
of three things either super religious
now yes these are true sometimes but
it’s important to remember that this
isn’t always true so homeschooling why
what did I get out of it what was the
purpose so I want to judge the different
systems of Education that I went through
in three criteria not through criteria
based upon what I ultimately gained and
continue to will use in the continuation
of the rest of my life what did I gain
from home schooling in homeschooling I
learned how to be creative how to
explore how to try new things and not be
afraid to fail but the main thing that I
got out of it was learning how to think
I learned how to observe and analyze and
found the value of exploring my
education so what was my next step well
like my siblings in the past
proceeding before me I would begin
public school in eighth grade this was
terrifying I didn’t believe that I was
ready for this major change so I started
attending public school and I
immediately noticed these massive social
and cultural differences now socially I
was able to do pretty well while I was
home-schooled I made connections I was
involved in different areas i did a lot
of extracurriculars so I had plenty of
friends but culturally there was still
this disconnection I noticed this
specifically in the very first class
that I had when I started attending
orange it was a science class and very
early on in the class the teacher told
us we’re gonna start to watch today an
episode of Bill Nye now up to this point
I had no idea who Bill Nye was so you
can imagine my reaction when students
start chanting bill bill bill bill nye
bill bill what I was terrified who was
what is going on how Bill Nye one of the
largest figures in social education and
an ultimate figure in all of public
education most students are familiar
with Bill Nye but up to this point I had
never been introduced to him now this
isn’t to say that because I hadn’t seen
bill nye I didn’t know how science work
door wasn’t able to learn I just learned
differently so I started attending
olentangy orange the building on the
left is the high school and the building
on the right is the middle school so
what did I gain let’s go back to our
idea of what is something that i will
use for the rest of my life olentangy
orange taught me structure it taught me
how to work with other individuals and
how to take their ideas and be able to
continue but the most important thing
that I got out of attending orange
was a variety I met a wide range of
individuals up to this point I was only
introduced to my family’s ideas or close
relatives so I was able to experience
different opinions different people’s
ideas were now becoming an influencing
mine so I loved it at Orange I learned a
lot I made a lot of friends but four
months into the school year my parents
raised a possibility to me they said you
may be able to apply to columbus academy
now I thought to myself that’s a smart
person school I’ll never make it there
but we ended up applying just to try I
ended up getting accepted and it worked
out that I was going to be able to
attend the next year I was jubilant
honestly I never imagined myself ever
so i changed the columbus academy and
the first time that i noticed that this
was going to be like nothing I’d ever
experienced before was again my first
class again a science class mr. Davis’s
advanced bio course
a lot of you know what I’m talking about
so I asked mr. Davis a question and his
answer changed everything I believed
about education up to this point it
impacted me so deeply and it continues
to influence me to this day I asked him
the question and I go to the bathroom he
responded with yes sure go ahead yeah
sure go ahead go ahead like I can leave
the class what this changed everything I
believed about education I was used to
having to ask the teacher get a pass and
have a timer set that I can only be gone
from class for three minutes so
everything I knew about the way that
school worked up to this point changed I
realized in this simple moment this
simple beautiful moment that this school
it’s like nothing I’ve ever experienced
before and I very soon began to realize
exactly how different it was it was a
combination of what I had enjoyed from
homeschooling and what I got from public
school I was free I could explore and be
creative and artistic yet be supported
by the school they provided me with
structure and guidance which I was able
to use to further my studies so let’s
return to our question what is the best
education system now up to this point
you may respond private school it’s how
it worked for him and that seems to work
for other people but my response to this
question is a little bit different what
is the best system of education is not a
very good question the thing we should
be asking is what is the best education
system for me every individual’s
academic journey is different and we
have to be aware of that
so what does this mean what is it all
for the main thing that I noticed
throughout my academic journey where
there were two very distinct paths that
students tended to follow that of
diversity which I ended up following
changing schools multiple times and
being able to experience a variety of
opinions and different ideas or that of
adversity so what is adversity it’s not
a typical term that you’d expect for
learning adversity is remaining at one
school for an extensive period of time
so why why is this adversity it’s
important to understand the concept of
adversity because if a student stays in
a specific area let’s say for twelve
years of their life they stay in a
single area they are limited by the
confines of whatever that school
district or school has in mind for those
students let’s take an example of a
student who attends public school let’s
say they intend to explore the arts they
want to be a writer or a composer or a
musician now they have limitations in
their school district they’re required
to take a specific number of courses in
specific subjects in public school
so what if the student wants to continue
their focus what if they’ve decided this
is what I do want to do for the rest of
my life it is on the student to then
explore to find out how do I make this a
reality a student must do three primary
things a student must a fine time be
find connections find the teachers that
can help you in these focuses and see
work very hard
because there are limitations to what
schools can provide to students this is
the adversity if a student is able to go
beyond the limitations of whatever
school they may be attending public
private home or any other they are able
to be successful through the path of
adversity so what does this mean we have
our two paths adversity and diversity so
let’s go back over the primary points of
what these two mean adversity is a
single system this is beneficial in the
way that allows a student to be
comfortable to be established and to be
used to it what exploration is needed
because there’s limited explode exposure
you are confined by the things that the
school has provided to you diversity
diversity provides exposure you are able
to experience a variety of opinions and
ideas but you need to be flexible it is
important for a student experiencing
diversity to be able to adapt quickly to
whatever environment they are being a
are expected to change too so what does
this mean
we have two paths that most students end
up following granted there are many
other paths that frankly there’s not
enough time to delve into but the
important thing to take away is this no
matter what system of education you
follow and no matter what path you end
up taking every student has the
potential to be successful because each
system has its own set of
characteristics that will guide the
student along the way ultimately aiding
the student in whatever their endeavors maybe thank you