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Sun Jul-24-05 08:04 PM
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Poll question: Did you go to public school or private school? |
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Again, no need to give specifics that will allow the evil and stupid better to identify you, so don't call out "Philips Andover, 1964," say. (Actually, if you really did, I'd like to know, since any additional dirt on W is always welcome. Still, that's for another thread.) However, if like me you went to both public and private schools, replies along the lines of "Private through 2d grade, public the rest of the way" (to use my example) would seem to be appropriate and not too revealing.
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:06 PM
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Some good, some bad, but overall I enjoyed the whole 18 years.
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:06 PM
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Grade school was Catholic parochial...high school was a private Catholic girls' school.
Not Philips Andover or anything fancy like that.....
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:07 PM
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3. Any time I do something stupid, I remind people that I am a product |
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of the Texas public school system. :dunce:
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:08 PM
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K-2 public 3-8 private alternative elementary 9-12 boarding school, as both day and boarder
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:10 PM
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5. Private K-6, Public 7-12 |
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Though at one point my father had decided to send me to Catholic school for middle school, because his sainted older brother had sent all his kids to parochial school (we'll ignore the fact that two out of three "had" to get married, so my father's ideas about Church-learning keeping me a virgin until 40 were pretty invalid). I raised holy hell (this was about the time that I was begging my mom to live with my grandmother full-time) and threated to run away, and my parents realized that I was serious. I think it helped that 4th grade was the year I tested for entrance into the newly established gifted program, and got in, so there were some obvious benefits to the public school experience.
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:11 PM
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i gots a good edumacation thur.
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:14 PM
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12. Those bearfighting skills sure come in handy |
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:12 PM
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8. I voted public, which is true 1-12 |
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But I did go to a private kindergarten, and then to a private college (for my first fours years). Then a Private research institute, then public university and law school.
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:12 PM
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9. I went to Catholic School. |
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That's why I'm a Satanist.
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:23 PM
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:12 PM
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Edited on Sun Jul-24-05 08:15 PM by usedtobesick
oops I went to Catholic school for te first 3 years. I'm getting old.
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:13 PM
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11. Carnival, actually but circus is close enough. |
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:14 PM
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13. In a knee jerk reaction I answered Public School. |
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But I should have read the whole poll. Then I would have chosen Other: Public School and School of Hard Knocks. I got pregnant the summer between my high shcool junior and senior years, so finished my education in my own project apartment with a baby and a husband. School of Hard Knocks, all right!
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:18 PM
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14. Parochial, - a long string of Jesuit run schools. |
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:18 PM
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Jesuit high school in Omaha. (Creighton Prep). An oasis for liberalism in the middle of this far-right state.
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:21 PM
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:41 PM
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The women went to a "Normal" 2 year college of education got a teacher's degree and came home to teach their own and neighbor children to RRR. Reading was the most important because to read meant never to stop learning! There was no head start or kindergarten, but one had learned a lot before 6 years old. Those earliest years were for learning about family, oneself, and love and caring. Those were the basics that carried people through hunger, poverty, wars, and rotten politics. Not to be left behind there was reading from T. Caldwell to Tolstoy, Hemingway to Socrates, Hitler to Lenin, but by far, favorites were the poetry and made up beautiful fiction of the warmer, nicer world!
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:50 PM
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19. pube-lick, all the way through college. |
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:51 PM
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Had a great time...All those stereotypes really don't hold true....
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:53 PM
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I went to private school for one year.
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Sun Jul-24-05 08:53 PM
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OK, in the interest of full disclosure, I did go to a private school for Kindergarten, then went to public for all the rest. (I don't really know if that counts, though.)
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I'm in high school, BTW. Goin' into my sophomore year, and still don't know where I'll be going for it. Back to Catholic School? Or to Public School? The entire outcome hinges on the decision.... blah blah blah.
Preschool- Waldorf K and 1st- Public 2nd and 3rd- Presbyterian 4th to 6th- Montessori 7th to 8th- Public 9th- Catholic 10th-12th- ????
Yeah, I've been exposed to some radically different styles, but so far only my right eye and spleen are casualties...
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Sun Jul-24-05 09:14 PM
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Public K-12 Small Private New England Liberal Arts University
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Sun Jul-24-05 09:18 PM
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25. Public all the way through. |
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Sun Jul-24-05 09:26 PM
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26. catholic to 8th grade-public high scool |
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Sun Jul-24-05 09:27 PM
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27. Private church-run preschool, public the rest of the way |
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Some well-regarded schools, some dodgy ones, and the most important thing I learned is that I wouldn't wish any of it on my worst enemy.
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Sun Jul-24-05 09:35 PM
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28. Private K-2, public 4-9, private 10-12. |
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Yes, I know "3" is missing. My first school didn't have grades. I was the age equivalent of 2nd grade when we moved and when I started public school, they put me in 4th grade.
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Sun Jul-24-05 09:56 PM
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29. Parochial K-6, public 7-12 |
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My parochial school education was much better than my public one.
Which is why, despite all logic, I'm kind of sympathetic to the voucher lobby (I wouldn't vote to support it or anything, but still).
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Sun Jul-24-05 11:41 PM
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In New Orleans this was almost in the minority due to the large number of Catholic schools (I'm so glad I didn't have to wear that dorky uniform).
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Sun Jul-24-05 11:42 PM
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Mon Jul-25-05 12:05 AM
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32. Parochial through 8th, Public for high school |
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And contrary to common wisdom, the public schools I attended were far ahead of the private parochial schools I attended.
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Mon Jul-25-05 10:14 AM
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33. Still wondering about those Other votes. Should I have put on juvenile |
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detention? (Rhetorical question, honest!:))
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Mon Jul-25-05 10:20 AM
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34. Public, private, public. |
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Mon Jul-25-05 10:21 AM
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35. I went to public for a while and then switched to private. |
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Mon Jul-25-05 10:21 AM
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36. Public school through part of 10th grade |
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Then moved to Europe and attended an English-stream private school (since that was my only option if I wanted to continue my education in a language I was fluent in ;))
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Mon Jul-25-05 10:22 AM
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from Pre-K through Grad School.
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