Club work :our discussion club litened to polina masiuk*

On Thursday 14 October, the members of our gymnasia discussion club “Dialogue of Cultures” as well as the invited students of the 10th grades had a planned meeting in English. The speaker of the club was the grade 11-A student and the winner of the international FLEX program (Future Leaders Exchange) Polina Masiuk. She studied in the US school in Indiana during the previous academic year and reported about having received an invaluable experience of the education in the American society. Notably, Polina brought back to Ukraine the record with A’s and B’s only. In her multimedia presentation she shared her impressions from studying and living the American host family. She also got the 10-graders acquainted with the concept of home education and compared the Ukrainian system of education with the American one. Among the positive aspects she emphasized on were the number of major and elective subjects, which cannot be more than 8, the high school students can choose the level at which the subject will be taught to them, they may make up classes to study this or that subject as they are not divided into classes in high school, and lastly, they have one large lunch break (an hour +) whereas the majority of other breaks are not longer than 5 minutes. Of course, there were the drawbacks as well because people are different everywhere and no educational system is ideal.