Report of team school life

Team: Floor Stultiens, Daphne Beimans, Justin Knol, Jimmy Martens & Phil Peeters
Conclusions are based on the interviews of the parents and grandparents.
These are the people we have interviewed about their school life:

Jimmy Martens:
Name: Maria Kissen (grandmother)
Birthdate: 27-05-1943
Age: 73 years old
She worked in a factory.
She had a short school time,
because she started very early
with working in the factory.

Name: Tom Martens (father)

Birthdate: 08-11-1963
Age: 53 years old
He has always worked as a developer.
He first worked for the company A.M.
there he got fired. He now works for
the company Okko.

Justin Knol:

Name: Henk Konings (grandfather)

Birthdate: 21-10-1945
Age: 71 years old
He started a professional basketball
club named: B.S.W.

Name: Lisette Baumann (mother)

Birthdate: 02-04-1975
Age: 41 years old
She works at Abacus B.v.

Floor

Stultiens:

Name: Anny Lenders (grandmother)

Birthdate: 10-11-1943
Age: 73 years old
She has always been a cleaning woman

Name: Nicole Stultiens (mother)

Birthdate: 30-11-1971
Age: 45 years old

Shes been broker, she worked in

a clothing store, she worked in a
glasses store and now she works as a
fitness instructor

Daphne Beimans:
Name: Annie Claes (grandmother)
Birthdate: 27-02-1947
Age: 69 years old
She has always been a housewife

Name: Wendy Beimans (mother)

Birthdate: 15-08-1975
Age: 40 years old
She has always worked as an administrator for
companies like Rutten, Vlasco, Platinox and at
the moment she works for the company Uniteq.

Phil

Peeters

Name: May
Birthdate:
Age: 76

Coolen (grandmother)
26-07-1939
years old

She has always been a housewife

and she helped her husband on the office.

Name: Ralf Peeters

Birthdate: 17-07-1972
Age: 43 years old
He works as an ICT-manager for the company Hertek.

This are our conclusions (similarities and contradictions) about the

school life of the parents based on the interviews of the parents
Similarities:
From the interviews we concluded that the families in the time of the parents
werent very big! They actually were around the same size as they are nowadays:
4-5 people in one family. It is very strange that all the mothers of our parents (our
grandmothers) were housewife, they stayed at home a lot and took care of the
children.
Most of the parents still remember the fall off the Berlin wall, but the landing on
the moon and the introducing of the internet is often managed.
All the parents went to an ordinary high school where they did have or mavo. The
parents all went to schools for girls and boys. There werent any separated
schools. We can also conclude that there were a lot of schools. None of the
brothers and sisters went to the same schools as their brothers and sisters did.
The schools were all religious; some of them were even very religious: they had
to do prayers every morning and around dinnertime.
All the parents say that the quality of teaching was very good, but that the
teachers were quite strict.
But none of the parents did any extra-curricular activities, they were all glad to
go home when they had finished school. They all started at half past eight and

were finished around three oclock. But they werent finished by then they all say
that they had way too much homework. They all had to cycle to school.
The parents didnt have a very good relationship with the teachers, it was very
formal and the teachers were strict. If they had done something that wasnt
allowed they had to write a paper, stay after school or be a school guard.
All of the parents liked to go to school, mainly because they saw their friends.
All parents agree that we dont have it harder than they had. However they say it
is different and school it different nowadays than back then.
Contradictions:
From the interviews you can say that the job of the fathers of our parents were
different. Some were plumber, other carpenter or bookbinder.
Why the parents went to a certain school also differ, for example because it fitted
with their level or because their parents chose this school.
The amount of subject per day also differed a lot! Some had only 4 subjects a day
(just like us) but some also had 7 or even 8 subjects a day.
Whether most subjects were compulsory is also something that differed. Some
parents say they all subjects where compulsory, some say none were compulsory
and some say only English and Dutch.
Favourite subjects also differed, some liked languages more and some liked
mathematics more. Not everyone was allowed to ask everything they wanted to
know. At some schools you were allowed to ask everything on some schools you
werent. The same goes for extra help. At some schools they had that and at
some schools they didnt.
This are our conclusions (similarities and contradictions) about the
school life of the grandparents based on the interviews of the
grandparents
Similarities
From the interviews we concluded that the families were quiet big. It varied from
five to eleven people per family. And the mothers of the families were most of the
times a housewife.
All the grandparents went to their school because there was no other school.
The schools were separated; the boys and the girls were split up.
All schools they went to were religious.
Back then the most subjects were compulsory, even though they were on
different schools.
The grandparents also didnt do any sports after school except one.
Most of their schools started around half past eight and ended at around four
oclock.
At that time nobody went to school by car or by bus. They cycled to school or
they walked.
And the relationship between the students and teachers was only at school.
Contradictions
From the interviews we concluded that the schools, where the grandparents went
to, were all different. That is because there schools were separated so they
couldnt be on the same school. Also the men couldnt go to the household
school.
The amount of subjects isnt the same to, it varied from three blocks a day till six.
The amount of homework was also different. One had to make a lot of homework
and the other didnt.

Even the punishments were not similar. At one school they didnt have any
punishment.
And the coaching, at one school there was a lot of coaching and at the other it
was, like, if you dont get it then youre unlucky.
The answer isnt the same for the question: did you like going to school. Actually
more said no than yes.
And they didnt agree about who studied harder. Some said that they studied
harder than nowadays, and others said that studying at that time wasnt
important.
This are our conclusions (similarities and contradictions) about the
school life of the parents and grandparents based on the interviews of
the parents and grandparents
Similarities:
There we actually only a few things that were the same for the parents and the
grandparents, first of all, the time schedule was almost the same for everyone,
they started around half past eight and ended around three oclock. All schools
were religious as well and the relationship between the students and teachers
was very formal for everybody.
Contradictions:
The first thing that we saw was that the families in the time of the grandparents
were way bigger than at the time of the parents and that the parents in these
days have a lot of different jobs, which wasnt the case in the time of the
grandparents.
At the schools of the parents boys and girls were mixed. That was different in the
time of the grandparents, they were on separate schools. The amount of subjects
per day also varied a lot. From 4 to 8 subjects!
But the biggest difference is that the schools of the parents were much nicer.
They, overall, liked the teachers, the quality of teaching was good, they were
allowed to ask everything they wanted to know and most of the parents liked
going to school. This was almost the opposite for the grandparents.
And the most important conclusion: the parents say that we dont have to work
harder nowadays whether the grandparents do!
This is the opinion from the group to the life of the students nowadays:
We think it is good to choose the school yourself with some help from your
parents. Because we concluded from the interview that most of the grandparents
and parents couldnt choose it on their own. Their parents did it most of the
times. It is also good to have no separated schools, because the boys need to
learn the girls, how they react and their feelings and so on, and vice versa. We
think it is also nice to have no religious school, because we think that when you
got lessons for that, it would be quiet boring. The lessons per day is also not that
much and the times are also good, because we dont have to go to school till four
oclock, like the grandparents. The quality of teaching is also very good, because
most of the teachers explain very well or you can ask for anything if you dont get
it. The coaching for students is also good because when you are bad at
something you have to go to extra lessons after school which explains you much
more. The punishments arent really good, because you have to come earlier to
school when youre late. That isnt really a thing which you could learn from. A
much better thing would be cleaning the school. Then you wont come any late in

advance. We dont think we like going to school, but you can see your friends
which make it nicer. We also think that we study way harder nowadays than our
parents and grandparents had to. Because we learn four different languages, we
learn mathematics which the parents dont understand, imagine the
grandparents. And we can go on and on.

This is who we are; we are the

students of 2016 who made this
report

This is our school; this photograph is taken from

the side

This is the Eumind logo, which is drawn by us

This is a picture of the interview with

Daphne and her grandmother Annie

This is a picture of the interview with

Floor and her mother Nicole

Comparison and reflection of team school life

Comparison
We couldnt do the comparison, because we were too late to post something on
weebly. We havent found anything of the interviews on the site from the Indian
school. We even couldnt talk to them with the video conference because there
was no group of school life at that school. So that is why we cant fill in anything
in here.
Reflection
Our group work went very well, sometimes we had a little discussion, but that
discussion led us to new ideas, so that was very positive. The interviews were
very good; we discovered that our grandparents actually are not that bad in
English. Maybe we could work a little bit harder sometimes, but most of the time
everyone worked hard. We did the best we could and that leads to this result. We
are very happy with it!

Main question: Do all students have to work harder to be successful at

school in 2016 than at the time that your grandparents/parents were
teenagers?
Grandparents:
When you look from one side, the grandparents had to work harder at school:
that is because they had to behave way better than nowadays. They had a
stricter school, so if they did one thing wrong they had a punishment. And their
punishments were much worse than we have now. So that is why they have to
work harder than now to be successful.
But when you look from the other side, the grandparents didnt have to work
harder at school: because, like the girls, they went to a household school. They
learned things like ironing and cleaning. And the boys probably learned not that
much what we have to learn. And if you ask them a question from homework
which you dont get, most of the cases they dont get it too. So that is why we
have to work harder to be successful at school
Parents:
The parents have to work, approximately, as hard as the children nowadays.
Maybe their teachers were a little bit stricter, but the punishments were all the
same as we have now. The parents did have more lessons per day than we have.
This leads to the fact that they had to do a little bit more homework than we have
to do. And if a child had some problems at those days, he or she was helped by
extra lessons, like now. But they dont have to work harder to be successful than
the children have to do nowadays.