Summary: Havergal College Upper School

Question:

When it comes to havergal upper school is there a perceived advantage for those who attended junior and middle school over those who came to havergal in grade nine?

Field: Havergal College Upper School

School of thought:

I will be using the functionalist school of thought to focus on this question. I think that this school of thought is best because my question revolves around figuring out which one functions the best at Havergal: coming to school before grade nine (elementary and middle school) or starting Havergal in grade nine. The role you are expected to play at havergal is a very specific one, and the way you play it might differ depending on how long you have attended havergal for. For example, going to a co-ed school up until grade eight and then coming to havergal is very different. People may be used to wearing makeup everyday or not talking as openly about personal problems in school. But, at Havergal it is considered weird if you wear makeup and almost no subject is off the table. Girls frequently will talk about things like their periods, or yell down the hall asking for sanitary products, which

I will post this survey to the Havergal Facebook Group and then I will wait a week for responses. During this week I will interview people based off of whether they went to Havergal before high school or not. My Hope is to do five of each, making that ten interviews all together. This will all be done within Havergal.

Bias:

A potential research Bias I see is that I only fall under one of these categories and that can influence how I predict the final results to fall. I came to Havergal in Grade nine and think that though there are advantages to have gone to another school, in terms of life in Havergal it would have been easier to have been here from the start. Having this Bias may influence the way I form my questions.

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