Compare And Contrast Public High Schools Vs Iraq

When I started at my first U.S. high school, I thought it was completely different from high school in Iraq. Nevertheless, I realized that there were many similarities between U.S. public high schools and Iraqi public high schools. One thing in common is that many students in both countries are going to discover themselves through the journey of high school, and decide what they want to be. The other similarity is that in U.S public high schools, if students get high scores on the ACT or SAT, they would receive scholarships that help them pay the tuition for a university or a college. Likewise, in Iraq, if they get excellent scores on a test in senior year of high school, they would attend the university or the college for free. Even though high schools in both countries have some similarities, the U.S. public high schools are dissimilar to Iraqi public high schools in many ways such as school uniforms, cafeterias, and school

In the United States, society believes that the students have the right to wear what they like with fewer restrictions. Moreover, an absence of a dress code helps students to express their personalities. When I saw some students at my first U.S high school wearing pajamas, dresses, and shorts, I was shocked because that was forbidden in the Iraqi schools that I attended. On the other hand, in Iraqi public high schools, students must wear uniforms, and they can not be in the school without their uniforms. The culture in Iraq assumes that dress codes help in the process of learning and make the students more disciplined. Some Iraqi public high schools have their own uniform designs. People can know the schools that the students go to by their designs. School uniforms are one of the differences between the U.S and Iraqi high schools; the cafeteria is the second difference that surprised