To the students of Wheatland that haven’t experienced both a small school and a big school like Phoenix, Arizona, We are first going to cover the differences. At Wheatland it takes approx. 2 minutes to get to class depending on your pace. There’s more time to get to class and you are only late if you’re stuck behind people because of how narrow the hallways are, or maybe a coach or teacher holding you back. At the school in Phoenix I attended takes a lot longer to get to class. You have to run to each class because most of your classes are on opposite ends of the campus and you only have 5 minutes to get there. There’s around 1,500 classes that you can participate in.

Another noticeable difference is sports. In Wheatland there’s only softball, baseball, cross country, track and field, cheer, and basketball which isn’t much but it’s enough to keep you occupied. The bigger school that I attended has a variety of sports like, basketball, baseball, shot put, lacrosse, cross country, track and field, football, volleyball, long jump, javelin throwing, and soccer.

The next subject is the staff and how the kids act. The staff is stricter at the bigger school mainly because the one I went to had way too many fights. Students get randomly searched to make sure that students were safe and didn’t get stabbed. You always see cops patrolling school grounds to make sure there isn’t a fight, but it didn’t stop anyone from fighting. The last time I was at my old school in Phoenix, kids were sent to the hospital because of a fight. Here in Wheatland there aren’t many fights, and it is peaceful. It is nice to take a break from conflict.

The school’s security is another big difference. Wheatland’s security is one cop compared to 17 guards at Phoenix. Our school has 8 or 9 cameras where Phoenix had way too many cameras to count and you have to walk through a metal detector before you entered school.

There might be many differences, but there is always going to be a similarity or two between Wheatland, Missouri and Phoenix, AZ.

Journalistic Editorial by Anthony Renna
October Edition