My school experience was really varied. I attended a private K that was very hippie-dippie (6 kids, mostly play); then grades 1-4 in rural Maine, in a standard small-town public school, homeschooled half time in 2nd grade because I wasn't challenged at all, and they thought about skipping me a grade, then returned to full-time in 3rd grade because my mother hated homeschooling and my parents split up, in 4th grade I was actually in a 4th-5th mixed class because of the small size of the school, and did some advanced work with a friend who was in 5th grade and ahead of her grade too. I remember mostly liking school okay; I remember being allowed to read in class if I kept quiet and was bored. I identified more with the teachers than the students.
5th-7th grade was public school in a wealthy suburb of Boston known for its public schools. For the first time I had intellectual peers in my classes. This was a great benefit. I was normal!
8th grade was a country day school in CT, fine academically (chosen because the local public school would have required me to re-do about 2 years of math and wouldn't take into account 3 years of French), a mess socially, but what isn't a mess socially when you're 13? Well, possibly not starting a new school where everyone has known each other since age 5 would have helped.
9th-12th grade, a very rigorous private prep school. My first year at a good college was less hard than my senior year in high school. I thrived on the work; didn't like the social environment much.
If we're judging by me, I am the Nerd Queen. School is what I do, it's what I love, it's what I'm best at. I'm not sure yet who Casper is wrt school. But she's there 10 hours a day (7 at school and 3 in after school). There's not a whole hell of a lot in her life right now that isn't school (and Polly Pockets).
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Date: 2008-09-02 06:24 pm (UTC)5th-7th grade was public school in a wealthy suburb of Boston known for its public schools. For the first time I had intellectual peers in my classes. This was a great benefit. I was normal!
8th grade was a country day school in CT, fine academically (chosen because the local public school would have required me to re-do about 2 years of math and wouldn't take into account 3 years of French), a mess socially, but what isn't a mess socially when you're 13? Well, possibly not starting a new school where everyone has known each other since age 5 would have helped.
9th-12th grade, a very rigorous private prep school. My first year at a good college was less hard than my senior year in high school. I thrived on the work; didn't like the social environment much.
If we're judging by me, I am the Nerd Queen. School is what I do, it's what I love, it's what I'm best at. I'm not sure yet who Casper is wrt school. But she's there 10 hours a day (7 at school and 3 in after school). There's not a whole hell of a lot in her life right now that isn't school (and Polly Pockets).