Connections + Sources
One major connection I can make from class to my schooling is definitely testing. The school district I grew up in, Grapevine-Colleyville ISD, is a very high ranked school for test scores and academics overall. As I stated in my high school overview, it seemed like a lot of my high school was spent preparing for tests or learning how to take tests, instead of actually learning the material. GCISD is very diverse, racially and economically. Some say that the lines are drawn weird (the lines that determine which school you'll go to) to prevent there from being a "rich school" and a "poor school". One thing I do find interesting is that in elementary school, most of the students at Cannon were white or hispanic. In middle school, it was mostly white, hispanic, and African-American, with a few Asian students, but once I got to high school, there were many more Asian students than I had ever seen in elementary or middle. The area I grew up in is very interesting,...
