Who Went To A Different kind of grade/high school period?
 

I went to a Performing Arts School from 4-12th grade with no sports. Our homecoming game was the Seniors and Juniors playing flag football.......

It was definitely different, probably why I'm so into sports now....

My son is going to an academy school for math and science next yr vs. regular elementry school.....one fo those parent choice schools and you stand in line and hope and pray you get your child in!


vs. a school where they teach manners in pointing out typing errors

I went from a public to private high school in 10th grade. The private school didn't have a football team and the HOmecoming game was in Basketball.

Also, one of the schools I've worked at is Grades k-8, but half the curriculum is taught in either French or Spanish....The Language Academy.

From 3rd grade thru 12th, I went to the laboratory school that was connected to the university where my father was on faculty.
We had student teachers every semister. We only had 35 in each class. Our school building was right on campus with all 12 grades in 1 4 story building.

My senior class was the largest ever graduated, 50+. That's because the year I was in 8th grade, it was announced that
that year's 9th grade class would be the last to graduate and oh by the way, 8th graders if you want to go to summer school, we'll let you graduate with them. So, I went to summer school and graduated high school at 16. :)

Maybe he should go to one for English instead. :p

I went to a very small parochial school for grade school - the most people I ever had in my class was 11, and we only had one boy.

I hope they teach spelling there too.

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I went to an International Baccalaureate high school--there were 40 of us, and entry was based on test scores and middle school GPA. There's only one other person from my class that I speak to.

I went to a "traditional" school from 4th to 8th grade. The school was, well, very traditional. It was K-8. We only had one teacher, except for PE, art, science, home ec, and music education. The rules were soooo strict. We couldn't wear shorts until may. They had to go past our finger tips, which was close to our knees. We had to walk down the halls in single file lines. We couldn't wear anything with the "Simpsons" or heavy rock bands. I could go on.

I went to a private, independent school from 7th grade to 12th grade. There were 30 in my senior class. The school had grades K to 12 when I was there, but they added pre-K. It was a good experience for the most part.

Academic and performing arts magnet high school.

No football team, no basketball team, no baseball team.

We did have, however, a fencing team, a gymnastics team, and the only high school student broadcast FM station in the state.

I went to Catholic school for pre-K through fifth grade. Catholic-schoolgirl uniforms and all. While I got a good Catholic education, I got a p!ss-poor education in everything else. There were only 22 kids in my grade, and the teacher had to progress at the rate of the slowest student. There was also a huge emphasis on rote memorization and recitation, which I hated (and still hate) with a passion. I supplemented what little I learned in school with my own studies.

At long last I was allowed to transfer into the public school system for middle and high school - the system is among the top rated in the country, and I received an excellent education.

The Catholic school is now closed for lack of students.

Can you tell I'm bitter? :p

Edit: The Catholic school had a boys' basketball team in my day. That was the only sport. No sports for girls.

Are we a bit snippy today! excuse the hell out of me for the typo's.

I knew that my school district was a pilot school district, but honestly didn't realize the implications until long after I graduated. We sampled a lot of curricula prior to its use (or non-use) for the rest of the state.

Probably the best example is the coed sex ed we had from 5th-11th grade. By 10th grade, we had to either insert a diaphragm or put on a condom (on models, of course) as part of our grade.

Hater. :p



Anyway, uh, I went to a totally normal public school with a totally normal football team and totally normal cheerleaders and totally normal prom and all that jazz. So I probably shouldn't be replying to this thread.

Well, honestly, nobody is going to believe that your kid is a super-genius if you can't even type a short sentence without 6 typos and a total lack of punctuation/grammar. Please.

Ok, back to the thread. I went to a normal public high school. However, one of my good friends went to a school where they didn't have to wear shoes if they didn't want to, and they got to sit on pillows instead of at desks. I was way jealous.

Elementary school lasts 8 years in Yugoslavia, but you start at age 7. I left after the 7th grade, so I jumped straight into the 9th but with the correct age (14). For the 1st year I went to one of those high schools connected to the university where the students come in and do stupid quizzes on you. The next 3 years I did the IB program, which is the closest I got to a European education. It paid off cos I came into college with 42 credits.

Yeah, some of my friends went to the local alternative high school, where you could take yoga for credit, they got to sit on couches during class, and where a lot of work was done via self-guided projects on the subject of your choice. NOT FAIR.

We had hula for credit classes. My AP British Lit class had couches, and in my religion, econ, and AP government classes we had carpets and beanbag chairs. They were soooo comfy. I miss high school.

I went to the School for the Creative and Performing Arts...we just called it SCAPA. SCAPA (4-8) had their own school & SCAPA (9-12) was housed a local high school. At the high school we had a Zero Hour for our major & then one other class during the day regarding our major (or your secondary major if you had one.) The rest of our classes were mixed in with with other students from the high school.

Regardless of SCAPA being housed there my high school was all about the Arts. Our band was #1 in the state for 11 years in a row with 400+ people, our orchestra was 150+ strong & always traveled & got wonderful state ratings & won many competitions, there were 6 different choirs you could be in-the largest being an audition choir with 200+ people each year (also traveling & receiving wonderful state ratings & winning many competitions.) We had award-winning dance & art studios, & numerous drama & creative writing classes. At my high school, if you didn't do something with the Arts (SCAPA was often used as an excuse to attend my high school if you were out of district) you were a nobody really. Our basketball team won the State Sweet 16 once but that was our only sports-related claim to fame. People went to the football games to see the band play-not the cheerleaders or the actual game. :p

!!!!!!!!!!! I would DIE! that's awesome...bet they had nice boats...*boat envy*

I went to an all magnet public high school...you were either in Science and Math or the Traditional program. I was science and math, thinking I was going to be a vet in college..nope. Ended up just another crappy lib arts major. But i was in the Honors program, so I pretty much did whatever I wanted to. People don't realize that if you behave, you can run things ;) muwahaha.

I forgot to mention that our football team is "Statebound" despite being a city division school. My senior year, we went undefeated and unscored upon until the state finals. (let's not mention the fact that half the team failed the state tests, yet still got full rides to colleges....)

I went to the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts, and we called it SCPA. And there was an SCPA down the road, but they were attached to the high school like yours.

SCAPA was the only school for the Arts in my city. I'm glad the high school portion was hosted by another high school-I feel a lot more well-rounded that way. :D

I went to a private school K-12......college was the first public school for me ever. We didn't have football, and homecoming was for basketball too (just like ADPiZXAlum). It was great up until I was a senior, then it went downhill that year......man, was I ready to go off to college!!

I went to a specialized science high school. 20,000 kids take the test and about 800 get in. It was all about the test and grades didn't matter. Everyone commuted from all over the city. Our course selection was pretty good lots of languages, AP course and various electives.