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Y&R Discussion Group
My family traveled a lot when I was growing up, but we all had at least one semester of high school in the US to make it easier to get into American university. I never took driver education or "home economics" because I had no time in one semester to do those things. But back when I graduated high school, driver education was not required. I did not even get a permit until I was out of college.
I went to the same private school from the 1st grade through the 12th grade.
Then I got sorta daring, and ended up attending four or five different colleges.
My parents still live in the house I grew up in, so I stayed in the same school district throughout Elementary, Jr. High and High School. Then I attended San Diego State University, determined that I hated southern California and transfered to San Francisco State. So 5 schools total.
I was so shy growing up, it would have been traumatizing to have to switch schools.
Grade 8-10, St. John's in Ohio
Grade 11, Sept-March - I attended an on base school, when spent ten months living on base at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, where dad was working on a "project" in response to Sputnik. LOL, talk about Homeland Security, back then there was a spook in every closet and the company location wasn't "secure enough" so the project was moved and when I say we lived on the base, we LIVED on the base. But hey, I was in high school and that base was crawling with cute fly-boys. (wink, wink)
Grade 11, April/May and grade 12 - public school
Post high school -- IBM "academy". This was 1960/61, so what I learned about those antique computers is useless. I also took a number of courses at 3 different universities, over they next dozen years, through my husband's job changes and our four kids diaper changes.
So, through high school, that's five schools.
Due to my parents' marital woes and then-stepdad's job transfers, I moved around a lot and hence attended several schools. It's a miracle I was not held back. I also had difficulties making friends as a result.
Pre-K: 2 schools (Illinois)
Grades K-5: 5 schools (Illinois)
Grades 6-8: 3 schools (two of which were in upstate NY and Maryland)
High School: 2 schools (Maryland and Illinois)
By college, I was so tired of a life of school-hopping I was determined to stay put til I graduated. And that I did. I went to one university for undergrad and another for grad school.
Total school attended in my lifetime: 14
Given the above, I think that's why I'm so determined that my son remain at the same grammer school til 8th grade (he goes to a Lutheran school).
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K-1... 1 school
2-4... 1 school
4-5... 1 school
6-8... 1 school
9-13.. same town as 6-8, but now in a high school
University........... 1 school
Post Grad work... 2 universities
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One elementary school
One junior high school
One high school
One college
K-2nd - Elementary School #1
3rd-6th - Elementary School #2
7th-9th - Junior High
10th-12th - High School
College/Undergrad - UCLA
College/Grad - Cal State
So I guess that is 7 total.
JK - Grade 6 -- elementary school
Grade 7 & 8 --- middle school
Grade 9 - 13 --- high school
Undergrad degree --- 1st university
Graduate degree --- 2nd university
Total is 5 schools.
Three schools for me.
I attended four schools in total - there was only one school for each of the levels in the small town I grew up in.
Grade 1 - 3 - The Brown School
Grade 4 - 8 - The Pink School which was painted yellow when I was in grade 6, so we had to start calling it the yellow school. Some people still called it the pink school, which seemed very strange to people who were new to the town and did not realize the school had been pink at one time.
Grade 9 - 11 - The High school (Major Pratt Collegiate) which actually had a real name
Grade 12 - we moved from Manitoba to BC when I was in grade 12, and completed my last year with people who I did not know, and for the most part were not really that nice to me.
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I only attended 4 schools...1-8, gr. 9, transferred 10-13, college.
But my children is another story. They were a different story.
Sudbury, St. Louis, California, (2 separate times) Texas, Nova Scotia and back to Sudbury.
These were from kindergarten to 10th grade. One year they changed schools from Sudbury to Texas to California and back home between the months of September amd March. Thankfully they were very smart, resilient kids and did well in school. They learned Spanish in the US and had no knowledge of French when we returned home, they picked it up quickly but didn't persue it beyond compulsory year (except my daughter) which is actually too bad. None of them use it today anyway even if this is a 'billingual' country.
I think it would be a lot tougher now especially in Canada as grade X111 was eliminated so that year has to be made up along the way. I don't think I'm 'Smarter than a 5th Grader'! Especially math, it has gotten so complicated that 1 plus 1 is no longer simply 2, there is this process you have to go through to come to that conculsion! Stuff I learned in grade 9 ie algebra, is being taught in grade 4 or 5! I'd be lost -- I am lost in this new math, so am glad not to be in school anymore!
gail--air force brat here. but only till i was 5. i went to kindergarten in oahu. i remember a little red wagon that had little milk cartons. i was only 4 at the time. came to san diego and finished kindergarten here. went to first grade with my husband then moved away to another burb in san diego. moved again when i started a local catholic high school and then met my husband in senior year.
funny how i remember certain events from so long ago but can't remember what i had for dinner 2 nights ago.
I had a very nice tutor, Mrs. Drummond. But now I'm going to this horrible religious school run by the Trask family.
1-3 grades. Same school.
4-12 grades. SAME SCHOOL! (It was little).
College at University of South Carolina.
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K-6 at the same elementary school
7& 8 at the same middle school
9-12 at the same high school
After high school - I then went to three different colleges, including some graduate work.
Looks like my schooling history is not nearly as interesting as some others!
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1 elementary school - I was one of the last in our area to attend the 'one room country schoolhouse'. 25 kids, grades 1 - 8 all in one big room. That must have made life interesting for the teacher.
1 high school
I university
Later studied at 2 post-university institutions for specific career related courses.
That part of my life has been pretty stable! LOL.
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One elementary school.
Two high schools.
Four universities/colleges.
My total is 6.
1. Kindergarten through 2nd then reassigned to another school
2. 3rd through 8th
3. High school
4. Another high school as an exchange student
5. University
6. A private Paralegal School