Private/ Public schools.

Up until this year I have gone to private or "catholic" school. Even though private and public are both kinds of schools you can go too, they are both very different. Private school and public schools are different when it comes to money, uniforms,  accepting students, subjects, class sizes, etc. When I went to a private school, I had to pay tuition, unlike in public schools which you don't have to pay. In order to be accepted into the private school that I went to, MSC, you had to take an entrance test. All you had to do was pass the test to be accepted into the school. The majority of my grade from my elementary school had taken the test too. About 75% of my old school got accepted into the school, so I knew a few people.  The next difference was class size. Each class was probably within the range of twelve to fifteen. In public school the range for the major classes is around 25-30. It was a lot easier in the private schools because the teacher could take control of a smaller amount of people easier than a larger amount. The only major difference with subjects was one, Religion. In private school we had to take it as a subject every year. Here, in private school we rarely ever even mention anything about the subject. Every year in private school we would basically be relearning everything but just in greater detail which got kind of boring. Another thing we had to do was learn a ton of prayers and read the bible. In elementary school at least once a week we would usually walk up to the church that was right down the street. In MSC we had a mass whenever the administration of the school felt like having one. At times this sucked because it was like an hour and a half long. The positive side of this was that we got out of classes to go to it. On top of going to mass during school, they expected us to go on Sundays too. Every once and a while they'd ask us questions about the homily to see if we actually had gone. Now that I switched this year it has basically gone to waste because I'm never really ever going to need to know any of this stuff ever again. A positive about going to private school was also that you got excused from almost every CCD class. I probably had to go to about five classes  in my life to receive all of the sacraments so far, while public school people had to do so many more. I have received Baptism, Holy Communion, Reconciliation, and Confirmation.  Lastly the dress code. Luckily, last year, my dress code wasn't as terrible as some schools. For girls, we had about three skirts: plaid, navy blue, and gray. We had a pretty good variety of shirts also. For boys, unfortunately they didn't have as many choices. A lot of rules came with these uniforms. The length for skirts on girls had to be two inches above the knee. This had been a problem for most girls. At random times there would be people with a ruler measuring to see if your skirt was actually the appropriate length. Since most girls rolled their skirts, they would rush to unroll them before the person checking got to them.  If it wasn't the right length, you would get sent to the office to either change into pants or a longer skirt. This would suck if you had to change because the skirts they'd give you were extremely ugly. A plus about wearing uniforms is it doesn't take more than two seconds to choose what you're going to wear. I like going to public schools because we're able to dress down. At times, this can be a pain to choose what you're going to wear. Since there's no dress code there's so many more choices of what you can wear.  I switched this year to private because I was getting bored of private school and I wanted to see what it was like to go to public. Overall I'm glad that I switched because public school is way more free and less strict overall. At times I miss my friends that rarely see now that I used to see everyday, but I got to meet a lot of new people here this year, so I'm glad I came.  Word count: 748