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I think besides requiring an exam to get entrance into the schools, it's a sense of pride that helps to push the students to excel. They're in that school beca
by jim_h 16y ago
I think besides requiring an exam to get entrance into the schools, it's a sense of pride that helps to push the students to excel. They're in that school because they're smart, so they work to uphold that image.
In regular schools, I assume, that they don't have the extra pressure (and pride) that motivates them. That motivation would have to come from within the students themselves, their parents/family/friends, and their teachers and role models.
- sedachv 16y agoMotivation, but also things like not being humiliated when you have to go to the bathroom. Most prison cells have toilets. Having to ask permission to go and then run around for 20 minutes looking for a key to the bathroom is degrading. When things like that happen in prisons, BBC writes articles about it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11630152 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11630152