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Grade Level: [ ]Grade School Type of Work: [x]Essay/Report/Term
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[x]High School [ ]Informational
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[ ]College [ ]Notes
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[ ]Misc
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>Chop Here>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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Compare/Contrast
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Each state of the United States has hundreds of different schools.
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These schools include public and private institutions of varying size and
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culture. For many, going to one school is a gift. I am fortunate enough
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to have attended 2 schools in different parts of the country. Fairfield
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College Prep in Connecticut was my school of choice for my freshman and
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sophomore years. Jesuit College Prep turned out to be my final High School
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for my remaining 2 years. Although Fairfield College Prep and Jesuit
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College Prep seem similar in many ways, they are really very different.
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Fairfield Prep and Jesuit Prep are both Jesuit affiliated schools.
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Several Jesuit teachers are spread out amongst classes taught at each
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school. These Jesuit influences, of both schools, follow the main goal to
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teach the students and attempt to make learning interesting, while keeping
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a Christian attitude in all that they teach. Both schools are private
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institutions, which the Jesuit community leads. This Jesuit community in
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each school requires a strict dress code of a tie, shirt, slacks, and nice
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shoes. This dress code is active for all the 800 student bodies of each
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school. Both student bodies consist only of boys ranging from about 14-18
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years of age.
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However, the environment of each school are very different. Jesuit
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Prep provides a warm learning environment by vividly decorating each wall
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throughout the school with paintings and works of art to share culture with
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the student body. Fairfield Prep students must look at the usual drab
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colors of an off-white based paint that showers the walls of each main
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building. Each building of Fairfield contains hundreds of lockers, each
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with a lock protecting each locker. Fairfield's padlock security scheme
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does not exist within the Jesuit Prep community, as each locker is bare
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with no locks or locking devices anywhere in sight.
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As the environments are different, the overall attitude of both schools
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is different, too. Fairfield Prep encourages a strict follow-the-teacher
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approach to teaching where the students must learn all from the teacher and
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expressions of their ideas are discouraged. Jesuit stresses an open
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atmosphere that encourages a cooperative atmosphere where the students
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learn with the teachers and the students are able to discuss classwork, or
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even socially with the teachers after school. This open atmosphere leads
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to more personal freedom for the students, as they pursue their own
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thoughts and ideas at Jesuit Prep. These thoughts and ideas encouraged at
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Jesuit Prep are challenged in more difficult courses taken by all the
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students. The curriculum of Jesuit Prep requires students to study and
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read more literature books and novels.
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These differences of Jesuit Prep and Fairfield Prep show that two
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schools which seem very much alike, are really very different. Many
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private schools across Texas and Connecticut share similar properties, yet
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they each have their own distinguishing features. The United States has
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many schools, but none of them are exactly the same as another. Any
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school, no matter where it is located, has it's own unique background,
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which truly makes the experience of learning at more than one school, a
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gift.
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