A Different Type of Students

The students in the school that I observe are primarily all Caucasian, I actually have not seen one African American student or Asian student yet. The school is a mid sized rural farm school with lots of cornfields surrounding it. My cooperating teacher said that there is a separate location for the gifted students and even some of his students go to get help with testing, but not many students are bilingual (due to lack of diversity). The dress code is pretty normal: no flip flops, skirts/shorts two inches above the knee, or revealing tops (tank tops) but the dress code does not really seem to be enforced that much. Out of class language is absolutely horrible and it seems like the teachers just ignore it unless it gets said straight to their face. My cooperating teacher coaches jv boys basketball, so basketball, baseball, volleyball, swimming, track and field, and football are available for students to play; it seems like most students take advantage of the sports offered and choose to participate in them. The student handbook is similar to mine when I was in high school; there is a section about academic honesty, dress codes, a schedule of days off, an everyday class period schedule, and the grading scale, it's a very standard handbook. The school does have student recognition programs, it just had a banquet for the seniors and there is also an honors program award ceremony. Overall the students are different from what I'm used to but in other ways they are a lot like the kids I went to high school with.