12. 10. 2026
Debata
I grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, a city in the Appalachian Mountains with its own distinct version of American culture. I went through its public schools from kindergarten through senior year, and at the time, that was simply what school was. It wasn’t until my Fulbright year teaching English at a gymnázium in Cheb that I had something to compare it to. Standing on the other side of the desk, I found myself noticing what Czech classrooms did differently from the ones I grew up in back home. One city’s public schools can’t speak for a country as big as the U.S., any more than one gymnázium can speak for every Czech school. Still, each system has a few practices I think the other could benefit from.
What NC Schools Get Right
