Going Back

     After a whole lot of indecision, I have not completely happily decided to go back to CSCL. This decision was not made as easily as the one I made last year, due to that my experience in the public school's 7th grade was by far superior to my time in the 6th grade. I am still not totally content with this decision, and am suffering from "Fomo" (fear of missing out). Unlike last year, I am choosing between two good options, which is much harder than choosing between a good and a bad. I am thinking about going back to the public school in September, due to the all of my friends at CSCL will be leaving (if you didn't notice, my going back and forth between the two schools shows that I like both).

     This year, I had teachers I liked, classmates I was friends with, no classmates I strongly disliked, academic peers, and some classes I enjoyed. I had none of those last year at the public school. The public school also has about 100 students in the 7th and 8th grades, whereas CSCL has 20 students total, with only 5-ish being anywhere near my age. This offers an important social aspect that I don't have at CSCL. For these reasons, the decision was not easy.

     CSCL does offer help when you need it but not when you don't, which is something that the public school had less of. I also have friends at CSCL that I won't easily be able to connect with in the future, whereas most of the people at the public school will be attending the public high school with me. There are things that I can learn at CSCL that I could not learn at the public school, but there are not nearly as many thing that I could learn at the public school that I couldn't learn at CSCL. Finally, CSCL lets me learn what I want, not something I'm not interested in. I will be starting at CSCL right after my winter break, and will likely start blogging on a more regular basis again.

Thanks for spending time reading this,
Max