Did you go to public school or private school?

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: Did you go to public school or private school?

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.

[JanMichael]

1. Public all the way.

Some good, some bad, but overall I enjoyed the whole 18 years.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Voted private....

Grade school was Catholic parochial...high school was a private Catholic girls' school.

Not Philips Andover or anything fancy like that.....

[GOPisEvil]

3. Any time I do something stupid, I remind people that I am a product

of the Texas public school system. :dunce:

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Both, mostly private

K-2 public
3-8 private alternative elementary
9-12 boarding school, as both day and boarder

[CatholicEdHead]

5. Private K-6, Public 7-12

[MountainLaurel]

6. Public the whole way

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.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

7. public!

i gots a good edumacation thur.

[name not needed]

12. Those bearfighting skills sure come in handy

:P

[existentialist]

8. I voted public, which is true 1-12

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.

[MrSlayer]

9. I went to Catholic School.

That's why I'm a Satanist.

[Old_Fart]

17. Same here

:yoiks:

[usedtobesick]

10. Public 4 to 12....

oops I went to Catholic school for te first 3 years. I'm getting old.

[China_cat]

11. Carnival, actually but circus is close enough.

[intheflow]

13. In a knee jerk reaction I answered Public School.

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!

[SOteric]

14. Parochial, - a long string of Jesuit run schools.

[Dave Sund]

15. Private

Jesuit high school in Omaha. (Creighton Prep). An oasis for liberalism in the middle of this far-right state.

[XemaSab]

16. private through 5th

public thereafter.

[oneold1-4u]

18. small town public

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!

[WMliberal]

19. pube-lick, all the way through college.

[Cathyclysmic]

20. Catholic school

Had a great time...All those stereotypes really don't hold true....

[Kire]

21. both

I went to private school for one year.

[last_texas_dem]

22. Public

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.)

[catbert836]

23. Kinda tricky here

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...

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

24. Mixed bag here

Public K-12
Small Private New England Liberal Arts University

[flamingyouth]

25. Public all the way through.

Including university.

[dajoki]

26. catholic to 8th grade-public high scool

:shrug:

[LeftyMom]

27. Private church-run preschool, public the rest of the way

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.

[MercutioATC]

28. Private K-2, public 4-9, private 10-12.

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.

[Emops]

29. Parochial K-6, public 7-12

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).

[tibbir]

30. Public

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).

[deadparrot]

31. Parochial. nt

[Zero Division]

32. Parochial through 8th, Public for high school

And contrary to common wisdom, the public schools I attended were far ahead of the private parochial schools I attended.

[Bossy Monkey]

33. Still wondering about those Other votes. Should I have put on juvenile

detention? (Rhetorical question, honest!:))

[kick-ass-bob]

34. Public, private, public.

[Shell Beau]

35. I went to public for a while and then switched to private.

[progmom]

36. Public school through part of 10th grade

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 ;))

[northzax]

37. private, independant

from Pre-K through Grad School.