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.