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Big School vs. Smaller School · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for American mama's. Dear mamas, is it better to
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  go to a big school or a smaller school? Well, let's ask our
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  American mama's Alma mama enjoining us now our American mama's Terry Edville and Kimberly Burlison.
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  All right, how many kids were in your graduating high school class?
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  Oh? My, eight hundred, eight hundred? How you were in yours?
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  Okay? So I had actually had the smallest at six seventy five when
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  we were sophomores, we had nine hundred and fifty. But then they opened
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  up a new high school and took a third of our class with them.
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  So all three of us went to big high school, and actually all three
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  of us in Texas too, Yes, yes, okay, but you guys
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  also went to smaller school. We get to a small school. We lived
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  in Mississippi for a small school in high school, so we had two years
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  of a small class school two years of a big highs. Que what's so
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  funny about the small high school we went to in Mississippi. I don't know
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  how, like maybe three hundred seventy two fifty maybe, yeah, not in
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  your whole class, like in the whole school. No, no, no,
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  really no, I think it was. Yeah, anyway, that's much
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  smaller. Yeah, it was very, very small. But what I remember
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  about that is I did not know what anybody's parents did for a living.
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  Almost everybody rode the school bus to and from school. If anybody drove a
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  car, they parked. It was like dloppies in this little giant, little
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  gravel road, you know. And then we go to Texas, and holy
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  moly, I knew what everybody drove because they were driving some cars. I
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  knew what parents did. It was the first time I realized what I didn't
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  have. The girls were wearing real Laura Ashley's and not homemade Laura ashes Your
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  grandmother put a dully around it to make it look like at ash Yeah,
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  it was. It was the real deal. It was. It was a
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  whole different experience. But but I feel like I learned. It was really
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  scary for us to go to the big high school. But we got so
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  involved, Like really that was the key, you know, jump into everything,
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  and we jumped into everything. But I was thinking about that, the
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  correlation between the two. Do you ever read the Kawasaki's Rich Dad, Poor
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  Dad? I did not. It's an incredible book. It's an incredible book,
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  but it's basically you are who you surround yourself with, right, And
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  so I like in our school in Mississippi as like you know, poor dad,
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  and then the school in Texas is rich Dad. And because I know
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  that when we went to the small school, I don't know if anybody talked
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  about going to college. We didn't have where your college, you know,
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  But in Texas, everybody's going to college automatic next step, it's the automatic.
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  So you end up elevating yourself to the same as everybody around you.
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  And I don't feel, you know, and I don't know, like I
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  love my experience in Mississippi though I love that small town that I mean,
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  even the teachers I still love. I remember everyone's name. I don't with
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  the ones in Texas. Yeah, and we may be actually there may be
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  a bit of a difference here then, And because you can actually have a
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  large school or a small school in a large area where you still have that
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  same time of ada everybody is going to go to college. You can have
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  schools in rural areas. This may be a rule versus suburban. It might
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  be type of thing. It's definitely rural and suburban. Well, Lindsay,
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  our sister works for Jostin's Your Books, and so she's in Louisiana's part of
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  her territory. So she goes to a lot of the small schools around Louisiana.
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  And she said, there are no aspirations. There is what she sees.
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  Nobody talks about. It's like working at dairy queen working. It's kind
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  of like I think it's more like as everything a socioeconomic thing, more than
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  being rural or living in the city. It is where you are and what
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  you're used to seeing, and all of it's and none of it's really bad.
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  It's because you look at I look at schools like the one in Missippi
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  where we had the shop, and there were guys that were like, heyes,
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  instead of going to college, I'm gonna I'm gonna well a vocational you
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  know part of right. You have shops, you still have shop, you
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  still need that. You have agriculture schools. In the schools you've got you've
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  got these you know, the four and H clubs in there, and you
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  got people doing stuff with that. And even in the Texas school they had
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  that. You know, they have the shop teacher and all the guys that
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  were going to have that, I think is it elevates them to a level.
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  This is what they want to do, and you can make good money
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  doing that. Yeah, you know if you don't want to spend one hundred
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  thousand dollars going to college or whatever. Right, And but what I loved,
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  you know, we had this experience at Madison Ridsland Heights no longer there
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  that it's Madison Central now, and it was the the ability to have relationships
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  with the students and the teachers. We were all a families. We all
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  knew each other, we knew each other's families, and we were just a
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  team. You come to Martin, the one that had like almost a thousand
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  kids in your class, and you're like, you're so overwhelmed. You meet
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  someone new every day, you know, but you do the same thing.
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  You know. I was in Faha, so I got to know those teachers.
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  Those are still some of my most incredibly, those mentors are still in
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  my life today. But there's something that you do lose with the big school
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  that we loved at the small school. And then there's some things that you
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  gain the big school that we didn't get to have at the small school,
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  all of it was preparing us for our own personal journey. I wouldn't trade
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  any of it. I love both me too, both both experiences. The
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  difference I noticed is that at a smaller school, you're able to do more
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  things. So you can be on the football team, you can be in
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  the band, you can be in the theater, you can do all the
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  things because they've got to have basically all the kids do all true. Yeah,
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  that's so true. But in the big school, what you get is
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  more competition. Yeah. Yeah. And so if you're going to be on
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  the football team, you've got to be better. Yeah, and you have
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  to choose once yet pretty much, pretty much, pretty much. If you
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  out of Kimberly Brothers and thank you so much, Thank you,