Poll of the Day > Did you go to mostly good schools when you were growing up ?

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first day of school for many kids coincidentally
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No
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DoubleOSnake posted...

first day of school for many kids coincidentally

Define good. I mean the schools themselves had a good enough reputation but some of the students and even teachers were twits to say the least.
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so yours was a good school district but you're saying there were still many bullies etc.....?
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DoubleOSnake posted...

so yours was a good school district but you're saying there were still many bullies etc.....?

I'm saying my experience was shit despite the schools good reputation.
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didn't you say your were in england though?
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DoubleOSnake posted...

didn't you say your were in england though?

.... what's that todo with anything?
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i remembered that, they are english schools so a little different than american
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DoubleOSnake posted...

i remembered that, they are english schools so a little different than american

Different names for things and that's about it basically.
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Initially, yes, but high school was crap. I didn't know it was policy to purge all of a student's accrued credits if one opted out of an AP program after reporting that it was more busywork with no actual advantages, and then to be denied all technical elective classes because I was "trying to get an easy A".
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Yes, but my middle school was iffy. Most my teachers were in their 20s, and most of them really didn't want to be there. Only 2 of my teachers from middle school are still teaching.
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my first high school was one of those schools that mostly did stuff like magnet/IB (rocket scientists and supernerds basically), so if you weren't one of those you weren't prioritized. i wish they would have let me go to a different school that wasn't so high-stakes and i would've been with a lot of my friends, but i was just barely outside of the district so they wouldn't let me. i was totally willing to bus out there too. stupid

the second one i went to in alberta though was really nice though. it was a smaller school so it was more tight-knit and everyone got to know the teachers and stuff. i actually really thrived there and got a lot of recognition for my work on the video and theatre productions they put on
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The school itself was great, the other kids sucked.
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For most of middle school I was in some ghetto Christian school. My parents took us out of there when the owner brought all the students into the church and asked who stole their weed.
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No. Poor area. Lots of fighting, drugs, arrests during class, Etc. Like eight people in my class died between freshman year and graduation. Plus our football team won three games in four years, all our other sports teams were mediocre at best (except womens basketball. They were good). I think something like only 5% of the school took advanced classes. Less than half went on to college.

Middle and elementary school werent much different, just scaled down.
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I guess, I mean they are ranked pretty high in the area as far as teaching goes (which isn't saying much), but I had shit grades and didn't actually start getting good grades until college.

Hell, everyone thought I was just going to be a flunky until I came out of Community College with a 4.0 GPA.
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I lived in a rural area so we just had one school in our town. I don't know how to judge it but the school is considered good. We did have some crappy teachers but they get weeded out.
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