Hey Pandas, Have You Ever Gone To A Private School?

It was one of those alternative schools, to connect your kids to nature or something. Learnt pretty much nothing.

I don’t know if this counts, but I was homeschooled and went to a once-a-week program at a Christian private school. My parents actually taught me very well academically, but I definitely had a rude awakening when I discovered the “real world” lol and I was awkward as hell. I could talk to adults no problem, but I completely froze if a peer approached me. The private school program taught me close to nothing useful. Lots of bible study etc. And a very homophobic environment, really confused me, a closeted lesbian at the time. I did learn a ton of Latin tho lol

I started attending public school my Sophomore year and had no issues adjusting to the academic part, but all the social ins and outs were very new to me.

I’ve been to a Montessori nightmare. I’ll tell you the worst things that happened in each grade.
Pk 1: The school lit on fire and not everyone got out.
Pk 2:The oldest kid in the class was held back due to her inability to read, it was the first time that ever happened.
K:I was in a wheelchair due to something unrelated, the teacher let my friend push me. She wasn’t strong enough.
1st: 5 kids didn’t pass the Iowa test, they were held back. For 1 person, that was their 2nd attempt. Things start falling apart.
2nd: Someone fell off the pegboard and died of their injuries.

All of these happened because nobody pays attention to us. Good things happened because of this too, like these.

Pk1: we formed our own mini society and that kept bullying away.
Pk2: we became the teachers and actually did a decent job
K: we snuck out of our class to a 1st grade class and learned 1st grade stuff.
1st: We learned to distinguish edible and non edible plants, however I had an allergy to a specific flower so that backfired.
2nd grade: we learned to run away from that school.

Yes, I went to an all girls private school. Eating disorders and self harm were absolutely rife. Lots of girls went off the rails after they left (drugs/alcohol/sleeping around etc). The pressure and expectations were awful. I’ve kept in contact with a few girls and most of us are still suffering from mental illness 20 years later 🙄 the schools motto was drummed into us “you must reach your full potential”, so we grew up pushing ourselves to ridiculous limits and burn out.

Up until the middle of fourth grade I went to North Dallas Day School (long gone now). It wasn't fancy at all, the building was literally made of cinder block and painted pastel green. BUT we did have a pool and horses!! Also only had 12 kids per class. I was an A+ student. In the middle of fourth grade I had to go to public school bc the weekly rates raised to $25 a week. I moved to Skyline Elementary and it was one of those school experimenting with “open concept” classrooms. 120 students in one giant room sectioned off into four classes, separated by 5 foot high partitions meaning you could hear all this other s**t going on other than your own class. My grades plummeted to a D average and I never recovered. It was horrible and ruined school for me. This was in 1976.

My middle school was semi private (concertado), which is a very common and stupid system in Spain. But the same school had a private HS and I followed it. It was not amazing (lazy teachers, tons of pressure, teacher lowering or raising scores as they pleased) but it was awesome how little we were. We were about 15 in biology or chemistry and only 6 in physics. That was really cool.

Yep, went to an all girls school in Australia for grade 3-6, it was alright but man mental illness starts young. Literally half the class had eating disorders or body image issues, including me.

Private high school, all genders, (year 7-12): it was better, much more lgbtq inclusive, everyone still had the mental illnesses left over from primary school but everyone was pretty supportive. I performed much better grades wise and also health wise.