Posted on 02/23/2018 6:55:50 PM PST by mdittmar
What Elementary School Did You Go To?
You don't have to mention the name.
Mine was a Catholic School,1st Grade through 8th Grade,learned a lot,those Nuns where tuff;)
“1st Grade only.”
Wow, most places are worried about High School dropouts. You must have set the record there.
Speaking of “wonders of biology,” a friend of mine described how you “do it” when I was 7 or 8 (second or third grade).
I remember telling him “that’s the dumbest thing I ever heard. You don’t what you are talking about.” LOL.
No kindergarten, 1st through 2nd grades were on two military base schools overseas and two in the US. October seemed to be the favored month for transferring my father.
Moved off-base and attended civilian public schools from 3rd grade on. Although I had many good teachers in the civilian schools, I felt as though I had a better education from the military base school teachers, especially the overseas’ ones. They expected more from the students.
We said the Pledge of Allegiance and had a morning prayer over the loudspeaker throughout my elementary and high school years, as I recall. And no one was shooting up schools that we heard of.
Ah, the incredible things we learned in elementary school.....
Alice Grimm Elementary School in Newtown Square,PA, from 65-71.
Public elementary school...portable classrooms, no cafeteria, no gym, no air conditioning. Such conditions would not be tolerated today. Somehow we survived...thrived, even.
I went to Marple Newtown in the 70s.
Smith, the largest grade school in town, 2 classes of each grade.
I went to My Dear Watson elementary.
KM Smith School, Alden PA. K through 2
Jackson Road School, Silver Spring, MD. 2 through 6
Years 1960-67.
Parents moved, I was oldest and by time next year arrived, they couldn’t afford it for more than one. From there on we had 4-8 kids in the house.
Attended 5 elementary schools, 2 high schools and a vo-tech at night.
William D. Wilkins Elementary School- Detroit
Changed schools 4 times in K-5 but daddy needed another promotion and new work challenges often so screw the rest of the family. Not military worse. Gov civil service. Only stayed in one spot 6 years to get my big sis and me mostly through HS.
This thread will be useful for the dossier.
Very small town K-12 school. Had a totally bizarre mix of “Greatest Generation” & new college grad “hippies” as teachers. Most of the older ones also taught my Dad...so I had to overcome a historical bias as to behavior:)
When I was about twelve, I decided that the Country was in big trouble BECAUSE of my experience with those two different generations of teachers.
For example, after having older teachers in kindergarten through 2nd grade...my third grade experience included learning cursive by writing about my “feelings” in a journal and 60 minutes/day of the teacher spinning protest music on her record player. I learned nothing that year...it was like a vacation from actual school.
Learned gun safety (including shooting) in 6th grade. We had real guns...and...NO ONE DIED!
My town was mostly Catholic (and I wasn’t), so I helped all of my friends memorize their prayers for confirmation...can still recite most of them to this day.
Went to Franklin school in Newark, same school my mother went to.
Catechism, though, was at the Catholic school—a long, skinny, little wooden building on the grounds of the cathedral. All the classrooms were long and skinny, almost like a train car, and there were no hallways, so you had to walk through one classroom to get to the next. Sisters of Charity taught us and were spooky smart.
I realized later it was that funny shape because it had to fit on the cathedral grounds. They knocked it down later, after the cathedral was finally finished.
We had daily assembly at Franklin, the whole school. The 23rd Psalm and the Lord’s prayer every morning.
1-4 @ St. Bartholomew in Elmhurst, NY (1950-54); then 5-8 @ St. James the Apostle, Carmel, NY (1954-58). All Dominican sisters. SJA was brand new then, so we did combined classes till 8th grade, same sister all four years. Worst part: she didn’t like me a lot. In fact, not at all.
The first one is in Brentwood, right? I think the second school is the one I was thinking of, on Sunset in Westwood. I went to UCLA and so did both my parents.
Dieringer Grade School grade 1 to 8th. Dieringer Washington..
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