American high schools: the difference between boarding high schools and day high schools

Students in private boarding high schools have a single learning environment and living environment, mainly in schools, so most of them are in contact with peers and teachers; However, due to the different placement of host families, private day high school students will meet people of different ages and members of host families, such as brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, grandparents and so on.

Therefore, students who are suitable for studying in a quiet environment choose to attend boarding high schools; For students with low tolerance to lonely environment, they can choose to enroll in day school. In short, our goal is to choose a suitable learning environment and have the highest learning efficiency.

Second, different forms of boarding

Students in private boarding high schools must live in school dormitories. Usually there will be a life manager in the dormitory to manage the student dormitory. Generally, schools arrange school buses to organize students to go out shopping once or twice a month. Most students who attend private day high schools live in host families, while American host families are responsible for their daily lives. They usually take the school bus or pick them up at school.

Therefore, we can see that the advantage of boarding high school is that it can assist students' study and life in a wider range and save time for students, while the disadvantage is that students' activities may be restricted to a certain extent. The advantage of day-to-day high school is that students' activities are relatively more "free" and they can arrange their own study and life in a wider range. Of course, the disadvantages of day-to-day high school also exist. For example, when entering a day high school, students need to devote some energy to something other than study. Therefore, compared with boarding high school students, the study time may not be too much.

Therefore, students who want to spend more time on their studies choose boarding high schools, while students who want to be more "free" choose day high schools.

Third, the types of activities are different.

Students in private boarding high schools mainly participate in campus activities organized by the school, and the main activity area is the campus; However, due to the limitation of school bus time or host family transportation, students who attend private high schools are not so free to participate in campus activities. However, students in private middle schools often participate in family activities, church activities and community activities organized by host families.

Through the analysis of the types of activities in boarding high schools and day high schools, we can see that the types of activities in boarding high schools are mainly campus activities, while those in day high schools are mainly family activities.

Therefore, students who like to make friends can choose boarding high schools, and students who like home can choose to go to day high schools.

Fourth, facing different challenges.

The challenges of private boarding high school students are mainly in learning and making friends; In addition to the above challenges, students in private middle schools will face additional challenges in their lives, such as maintaining good relations with host families.

Therefore, we will find that in this respect, day high school is obviously superior to boarding high school, because, as mentioned above, day high school will obviously give us more challenges, and the challenge is tempering. So from the perspective of facing challenges, high school day after day will make us make more progress.

In fact, high school will give us a bigger platform, for example, more off-campus environment will give us more opportunities to understand American native culture; Spend more time with American families and let us know more about American customs. Walking to high school makes us completely "American". Besides studying, we have more American life experiences than boarding high school students. However, one thing we must consider clearly is that we will pay more time and energy for it.