Did you go to Private School or Public School for your pre-college education?
Do you feel you got a good education?
Explain ...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Just things I wonder about ... and some people are nice enough to answer. You are welcome to answer, too ... just click on "Comments" and off you go! IF you don't want to be Anonymous, use the Name/URL option and just put in your name ... no URL required .... Starting Jan 28th, 2009, I am using questions from "Table Topics: Right or Wrong?"
8 comments:
I went to public schools all over the country, and scholls run by the military over seas. Some of the schools I went to were great, and others were horrible.
For example, the high school I graduated from (in a small town in Texas), did not offer math beyond Algebra II. They got a math teacher to teach me Trig & Calculus - I was the only one in the class.
I also went to public schools for all but one year. I went to a Catholic school that just about ruined me for life. I had a nun for third grade who made it her life's mission to punish me for living: she scarred my hands with her ruler, she slapped me, she hit me in the mouth with a baseball bat, she told me I would go to hell for giving a deposition against a bus driver who ran over a classmate of mine, she punished me for reading Little Women which was not on the approved list of reading for Catholic third graders. The list can go on, but I won't. My public education was excellent because I had a proactive mom who investigated all my teacher. When I was scheduled with someone who was not up to her standards for me, my schedule was changed, so I had the hardest, strictest teachers. I guess that's why I graduated and went to college.
I went to Publix School in a little bitty beautiful town in Oklahoma and we had excellent teachers, small classes that afforded time for teachers to devote time to individual students.
Many of our teachers had been College Profs and retired to this small suburban area.
Of course, my grandmother taught English there for 35 years and we had better make straight A's or else.
We had excellent education and a very high rate of College bound student.
PUBLIC.......THE TEACHERS WERE PATHETIC. MOST WERE OLD MAIDS THAT
HAD BEEN THERE FOR YEARS.COUPLE OF
US TALKED ABOUT IT YEARS LATER AND EVERYONE CONCLUDED IT WAS THE DEPRESION AND WOULDN'T BE RIGHT TO FIRE THEM. DIDN'T REALIZE HOW POOR IT WAS TILL I WENT TO COLLEGE AFTER THE WAR ON THE GI BILL.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH!!!!!!!!!!
THE PROF IS GONE BUT HERE IS A CAJUN SAYING FOR YOU TO LEARN "LACHE PAS LA PATATE" [DON'T
LET GO OF THE POTATO] IT MEANS "HANG IN THERE!!"
CINDY===DOES TODAYS MEMO MEAN NOTHING CHANGES. WE DON'T HAVE TO BE CONCERNED WITH YAHOO??????
Dad saw to it that we attended Catholic High School seeing as how he is a devout Catholic. The schools' only interest was making us good little priests and nuns. Didn't learn Dick! My experiences are on the lines of Totsie's. Yes, we had the one ton nun as well! And Mom and Pop were disinterested in investigating any teachers. The one time they did go to PTA open night, Dad discovered he knew more about Biology than the Brother teachign the class, and he still kept me in that school.
So I intentionally failed the regular school year, and then again in summer school sans air conditioning so that I had to go to Public School my senior year. I loved it, learned more about people, and they had a well equiped Physics and Chemistry lab. As it so happened the same teacher that taught me Physics in High School latter became my physics professor at University. He was outstanding on both fronts. What more could you ask for.
I can't completely relate too nor understand parents who knock the public school system. I'm sure there are some very poor systems, especially in Louisiana. However I am a product of the Louisiana school system, and although I doubt that I'm Mensa material, I would be willing to place bets that I can converse on a great many subjects with some knowledge of the subject at hand. So it just goes to show you that you can obtain a quality education from whereever you are. Afterall Louisiana usually ranks last in education.
Blah! I was a failure at school. I had not desire to learn anything but art and my folks didn't want me to go in that direction. So to punish them, and myself obviously, I did crappy in school.
I've always been in private schools.
It's not bad and I can't complain about the education - but I always wanted to spend at least one year in a public school. I dunno.. Since public schools are what prime on tv series and movies, I kinda felt "out of place".
I attended Public Schools my whole pre-college life. I feel that I received a wonderful education. I am a bit sad that I didn't try more offerings while it was free for the taking.
American Public Education is a most amazing thing, if you really think about it. Anyone .... and I do mean ANYONE ... between the ages of 4-21 ... can walk into a school where there are rooms and rooms full of adults with knowledge and willing to share that knowledge basically for FREE.
When and why did Public Education become such a horrible thing?
Reading your responses makes me wonder ....
Thanks!
Post a Comment