Our School is Most Definitely Different

       At Skyview Academy, we the students have a different mentality about school than most other public or even private schools do.  When a student walks into SVA, they may still have the grogginess of being tired and may not want to be there in the morning, but as the day progresses onward, the sleepiness starts to fade away and the student begins to enjoy the school atmosphere of laughing, talking to friends, etc.  At any other school, a student that walks into school typically enters their school with the same tired eyes, and will leave school with the same emotion.  At the other schools, usually the huge schools, students do not have the same family type atmosphere that we have at SVA.  At our school, if we are struggling with a certain subject, we know that we will be able to be helped by our teachers, we will receive smiles from people that we may not have classes with everyday, and our teachers know us by name, even if we are the quiet students that like to sit in the back of the classroom.  At other schools, the teachers just pass different classes and hope that they do not have to see these students again, because certain students have to repeat a grade, but at SVA the teachers genuinely want to see you succeed in school.  The students at Skyview Academy even have a different view on school.  We know that our job as teenagers is to be a student, and that in order to succeed in life we need to do well in high school, and then get into a college that will help us get jobs in the real world and become responsible adults.  The students at our school also know when something is wrong with another student, and will try and find a way to make that student feel happy again, whether it be as simple as smiling at them when they pass each other in the hallway, or they will sit and talk with them until they have to sprint to class.  Students genuinely care about each other here, and that is something that no other huge school has.  Other schools will have big-time bullying and no one to stand up for another when it occurs, but at Skyview nothing of that sort happens.  The SVA students also have a huge encouragement and support system.  At home sports games, huge amounts of students come and support the teams.  Outside of sports, students will encourage other students in homework, projects, and even when it comes time to vote for student council.  We the students will also celebrate each other when they have done something great, such as getting good grades on tests, homework, or also in completing a community service project.  This makes Skyview Academy different from all other schools, and that is why students here succeed in school and in life.  We can take our school mentality into our community by simply smiling at the people that we may pass everyday, we can do many different community service projects, such as volunteering at soup kitchens, donating unused or unwanted clothes to a homeless shelter, etc.  It is not that hard to bring our school environment to our community, all we need to do is act out our mentality, and then we, the students at Skyview Academy, will truly succeed as students, but also as citizens of the United States.