Part of CLP-USA's programming is to directly interact with youth from CLP-India's community. Two days ago, we visited a public Indian High School were we received our very first exposure to the Indian School system. Today, we were given the opportunity to interact with students and faculty of a Private Indian high school located within Pondicherry, India. To our surprise there weren't as many differences between a public & private school building in India. As a student in America, I took constant notes on what seemed familiar and what did not.
There are many more similarities and differences between the three school facilities, but ironically the rest of the youth and I cannot think of one similarity between Veda Public High School, in Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, and Norte Vista High School, in Riverside, California.
Despite the differences within our school systems/facilities, I believe that during our hour (or two) of genuine interaction and question-&-answer time with the students, the Indian students learned a lot from the CLP/SU2I youth/mentors and “American” traditions, and, simultaneously, we as well were granted with an abundance of information related to Indian culture, society, education and youth concerns/actions.
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