You may or may not have afterschool clubs you can participate in, and your school days are not necessarily always the same. In fourth grade, you may go to the school between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday while your cousin is on an alternative schedule at the same school and attends in the afternoons instead. You’ll also have some homework to do by streetlight in the evenings with your friends.
Once you’re in middle school, peers in your classes may be as old as twenty-two because they have had to repeat grades many times or they had babies and have come back to finish their education now that their child is old enough to go to kindergarten. In an ideal situation with no disruptions, middle school is typically completed in four years.
You’ll be learning math, French, science, history, geography and maybe another language like English or Spanish. You’ll probably have the opportunity to join an afterschool club and run for student government if you have the time. Again, your family duties at home will always come first, especially if you are a girl, so your school attendance is very much dependent on your family supporting you. You will notice many of your female classmates begin to drop out of school as they want to take their place in society, get married and start to have children.
If you make it to high school, you’ll find that your teachers are generally more educated and focused than your previous teachers and will expect more from you as a student. You’ll study all the things you did in middle school but at a higher level, and you’ll also probably be taking on a third language. You’ll spend just three years here if you are a dedicated student.
