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How many FHS students complain about their classes being too hard? Every FHS student has probably done so at some point.
Foreign exchange students Linda Havlikova and Bord Larssen view this matter differently. They say the teachers in their home countries are not as interesting as those at FHS, and the homework load is a lot heavier at home. Plus, there are no extracurricular activities.
Havlikova said she is impressed by the American teachers and by how they attempt to be fun, interesting and humorous.
“It is fun to learn from the teachers here,” said Havlikova. “I can feel that the teachers are like a friend.”
Larssen also feels that FHS teachers help the students to learn better by being interesting and involving students in different activities.
“In Norway it’s up to the teacher to teach,” said Larssen. “Here the teachers involve you in the learning.”
Havlikova doesn’t feel that the teachers in the Czech Republic care about the students and whether they are bored. They just teach the facts, she said, and expect students to know them.
“We have to study every day and every weekend,” said Havlikova. “On an average day we have to study about two to three hours, and on the weekend even more. We don’t have much free time because we are too busy.”
At Havlikova’s school in the Czech Republic, there are no sports, clubs or extracurricular activities. The same is the case with Larssen’s school in Norway; there are no activities that involved students with the school.
“One reason for not having any sports teams is because the government doesn’t give the schools money to support them,” said Havlikova. “We do have P.E. classes and we get to play volleyball, basketball, floor hockey and do gymnastics.”
Havlikova believes it’s good to have sports and clubs in school and she’s currently involved in FHS’s Alpine Club and wants to be on the volleyball team. Larssen also thinks there should be more activities in his home school.
In comparing FHS to schools in the Czech Republic, Havlikova said that the schools in the Czech Republic are very hard, and the teachers expect the students to study every day. In her home country the students also learn a lot — maybe even more than from school here. But FHS teachers are more entertaining and fun to learn from.
“I think that the school system here works better,” said Larssen. “Here school is more interesting and the students are more involved.”
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