What kind of Schooling?

[Sarah]

yeah.. I would always correct my English teachers. *sigh* It was sad. I ended up correcting them a lot.

[ebonylevin]

Yes English teachers and my PE teacher god she hated me, but thats what you get if you talk to someone like theyre 5 years old and then pointedly ignore them when they've got a question. my English teacher told me i would fail the exam last year but i passed it with room to spare! haha sucker.

[ebonylevin]

though the reason my PE teacher could have been ignoring me was because i was always correcting her. her grammer was even worse than mine and i always used big words which she didnt know and had to keep asking for explanations lol, that was the highlight of my day, going to the library looking in the dictionary searching for a long complicated word and then using it on her. her teeny brain couldnt take it. besides she deserved it she thought fencing was stupid!!

[RebelFencer]

I think that schools nowadays need a lot more sex and a lot less drugs.

[Inquartata]

By that standard...I am a school.

[HillBilly]

Tch, inquartata, teach me thine divine ways...

[Inquartata]

a) It's "thy".

b) Who gave you permission to adopt the familiar tense with me, impertinent whippernapper?

c) Young people these days! No respect, no respect at all, I tell ya!

[Louweasel]

As an aside, this debate about public school versus private school is really odd for me to read - in England they are the same thing. In fact, public schools are the poshest type of private school. I know, the English are weird. There are historical reasons if anyone is really bored...
I went to state school, like your public school; no fees or exams to get in. Mr Louweasel went to public school, which costs his parents a lot of money. It sounds like a lovely place though; and he got to fence there. It'd be very rare to have a sport like fencing in a state school. You're usually stuck with netball (girls), football/rugby (boys), hockey, gymnastics or cross country (both) in winter, and tennis and athletics in summer. I hated netball!

Actually, come to think of it, I have a question left over from reading american books as a teenager. Can somebody please define a "gymsuit"?

[gulebukser]

This might help.

Netball?

[Louweasel]

Thanks gulebukser - most illuminating! I'm glad I didn't have to wear one of those... Although to be fair the black "gym knickers" - like big modest ladies' underwear made out of scratchy stretchy material - with stripes down the sides and the white aertex polo shirt that I did have to wear weren't that flattering either.

Re the netball, yes, that's the one. The sport of choice for british high schools to inflict on teenage girls. Apparently at high levels it's quite fast and exciting, but as far as I was concerned it was a lot of boring standing around on tarmac. In the rain. Wearing horrible gym knickers and a bib to show which position you were playing. I used to gofor goal keeper or goal defence as then my horrendously bad aim and inability to get the ball through the net remained under wraps.

[Gav]

Hey Lou'

In my state school I got to do volley ball, Badminton and basketball. Basketball was the sports 'sport'. It didn't improve my opinion of it. I guess I was lucky to go to a school that bucked a lot of trends.

No Fencing, although there was tons of kit festering in a cupboard.

[Maeve_Mari]

I went looking for a picture of the gym uniforms we wore in High School, but have come to the conclusion that they were so ugly, so unflattering, so embarassuingly repulsive, that no American girl ever had her picture taken wearing the unit!

[geezer]

Growing and educating each new psyche is everything...and is why history repeats itself, civilizations never learn form mistakes. How little it does NOT take for generations and groups to "dumb-down" to morons. I'm a Liberal, all things in moderation, that's "ALL",...even the good stuff. But, hey, you don't have to take MY word for it. 1st Law of Existence: Do what you will. Socialization is everything.

[Sarah]

hehe, homeschoolers have a tendancy to be better socialized.

[melihop]

we are a publically private school.. so we are a private school.. payed for by the towns that send us there.. and anyone is allowed to go.. we are public in all sences except we don't have to follow all of the public school laws.. and we don't have to don't even have to follow like.. seperation of church and state and stuff like that.. which is a lot of fun.. relegious debates in the middle of class and stuff... te he he

than we also are one of the few schools in the area that actually has a music program.. beacuse almost all of the public schools are cutting them... and they only keep like.. basketball and football.. and they would nefver have money for somthign liek a fencing program.. lol.. soo i love my school!!! lol!!!! WHEE TO CLASS OF 2006!

[Soldier]

Originally Posted by Sarah

hehe, homeschoolers have a tendancy to be better socialized.

Actually, I would have argued just the opposite, from the homeschoolers I have known.

[Soldier]

Originally Posted by melihop

WHEE TO CLASS OF 2006!

How strange to read that, after spending last year calling the class of '06 here at the Academy "sir" and "ma'am".

[Sarah]

Well, if you're talking about me, than you don't really know me. I've lived in four states/provinces and most of them are very well socialized.

[Soldier]

Of course I do not know you; hence why I am talking in general.

[Sarah]

Originally Posted by Soldier

Of course I do not know you; hence why I am talking in general.

hehe, ok. I was just wondering. I've known a great many homeschoolers and even more public schoolers. The public schoolers are not very high up on my lists. Although, it may be because I always prosecuted them in Teen Court. *sigh* I learned so many things there that I never knew about, nor did I need to know, like paper. I've done many things that public schooled teens would never think of trying. As an overall view of it, homeschoolers tend to be a bit better educated and better at accepting new people and ideas.

*sigh* I hate making typos...