Do you think you got or are getting a really good, solid education at school? If not, what was/is missing?

good enough... I could have gotten more out of it if I'd applied myself more.

Hm. I'm not sure. It was perfectly fine for all the subjects apart from German and Music - but I passed German and didn't take Music anyway.

I'm totally happy with my school, but I'm not as happy with the curriculum - what we learned of poetry was abysmal. No Shelley, no Keats, no Wordsworth, no Yeats, no Tennyson, no Burns, no Hardy, no Eliot, no Betjeman, no Auden, no Thomas, no Hughes. One Edgar Allen Poem* and he was American.

* Heh

No. High school does not prepare students for life. Half the classes (or at least 1/4) should be replaced with classes that are occupationally and socially relevant to the adult world.

I think I got an excellent education.

What is a good solid education?

Yes, but school didn't and I don't know if they do now teach you how to deal with REAL life, as in managing money and finances, forcing more public speaking and human interaction, etc.

That would make a good survey

No, because school was very traumatic to me throughout all the years -- I blanked out most of it and never learned much of anything that I can recall. I hated every minute of it. I had autistic tendencies along with learning disabilities and they didn't know what to do with me back then. So I was put in "easy" classes and passed from grade to grade anyway. I think I should have gone to a private school for kids with problems or been homeschooled, but my parents weren't a good choice for homeschooling. I feel all my school years were a waste of time and that they did nothing to prepare me for adult life.

You want to ask it, or shall I?

Go ahead.

I do think I'm getting a great education. We have wonderful technology and all of that other wonderful stuff teachers like to remind us that we know how to use. Most of the teachers have higher than a bachelors. I don't know why I need to explain..Isn't some of it what you put into it (granted not all, but some)
And to those that said we need more real life classes..They do exist. They do have financing and things like that. They also have classes on how to be a welder and a nurse..Those classes are at the Tech Center down the road, and the financing things are held at school. I'm currently in the Teacher Cadet program which gives me training to become a teacher..So, yeah, those opportunities are there, kids just have to take them.
Oh and I'm taking keyboarding

Wow, that was long.

Yes, I had a very good education.

Yes about average back in my school days

Yes, I think the cirriculum was excellent. The teachers...well...that's a different matter. Let's just say that calling teachers heroes doesn't congrue with my experience.

for the most part i think you make the most of your education......

When I chose to enter the Vocational portion of the school, I was written off.

No one even told me about the SATs. I didn't know where or when or why.

The district is known as one of the best in the city... but I really can't figure out what standards they determine that with.

I don't know...I was pretty stoned most of the time. I still graduated with honors and I didn't get why anyone there would struggle.

No, because I was a good student.

My school was very small, only about 100 people in total. The emphasis was put on helping those who struggled, which is no bad thing.
However, I was a good girl, I worked hard and I strived to learn - I didn't do it for fun, I did it because I craved notice by the teachers 'Well done, Leah, good job!'.
You can tell by looking at my exam results which classes had teachers best suited to my particular need for attention, because they are the classes i did really well in.
Thankfully by the time I went to university, it wasn't about what other people thought, but about how much I could achieve.

For the most part, yes.

The only thing I know I was missing is that my literature / English teachers in high school really sucked. I mean to the point we still copied sentances from our grammar books when I was a senior, instead of doing something more meaningful, like writing essays, making arguments, etc. It didn't help that I got arbitrarily put in the non-honors class with all the dilinqents. In college, my literature teachers sucked pretty bad too, in that they would spend half the class time talking about analyzing hidden symbols (including the Kite Runner where there weren't any) and the other half lecturing on how richer our lives would be thanks to their class, rather than using that time to actually do so.

My history teachers (ironically all teacher coaches who'se "real" jobs weren't teaching to begin with) were probabbly the best though. So was my high school physics teacher, who although as a person decided to become a dick to me arbitrarily some time after graduating high school (for reasons I don't care to go into), but as a teacher was pretty awesome.

Which teachers you thought were the worst of the worst? Math, English, History, etc. Teacher coaches, regular teachers, the principal?

How to deal with stupid idiotic morons. That's something they'll never teach in school.

Or how about "How to take a freakin joke" That's something seriously lacking in society.

> No, because I was a good student.
>
> My school was very small, only about 100 people in total. The emphasis
> was put on helping those who struggled, which is no bad thing.
> However, I was a good girl, I worked hard and I strived to learn -
> I didn't do it for fun, I did it because I craved notice by the teachers
> 'Well done, Leah, good job!'.
> You can tell by looking at my exam results which classes had teachers
> best suited to my particular need for attention, because they are
> the classes i did really well in.
> Thankfully by the time I went to university, it wasn't about what
> other people thought, but about how much I could achieve.

That's really interesting to me about your motivation. Especially where it became less them and more you. I'd like to know what you thought in grade school - when did you become aware you were working for them, for their appreciation? I'm glad it wore off - to me, that's the essence of learning . . . for fun, to satisfy curiosity and to grow your brain.

LOL We were dealing! Lots of us learned FROM stupid idiotic morons. In school. They taught "how to deal" as a by-product. Still LOL

Early on, I think. To be honest, it was only when I went to university that I really started to care - partly because I was studying something I was interested in and partly becasue the vast number of students meant there was little one-to-one interaction with any of the lecturers.
I left high school feeling quite disillusioned, and took a gap year to get back on an even keel.
It's strange - I often have recurring dreams about things that trouble me, and recently they've been themed by returning to my last year at school to do the exams again and do a better job of thrm!

History/Social Studies teachers were, without a doubt, the biggest jerk-offs of the bunch.

Whoa. Don't trouble yourself. Get good sleeps. You're hired!

Yes, I think I'm ahead of my peers who went to the same school.

Yes, but a lot of courses were not necessary.

No, I was at a very bog-standard comprehensive. They barely even taught to the curriculum/to pass exams, never mind actually teaching concepts and ideas.

> No, I was at a very bog-standard comprehensive. They barely even taught
> to the curriculum/to pass exams, never mind actually teaching concepts
> and ideas.

You turned out alright

I'm completely for non-selective state schooling, but I think there's a lot of ways it can be improved so that no-one misses out. I would have done okay wherever I went, but I certainly don't feel that I got much out of my schooling that I wouldn't have got by working through textbooks on my own. Obviously there are exceptions - I had a few fantastic, inspiring teachers (my GCSE English teacher really encouraged us to consider the cost of human suffering which has ultimately contributed hugely to me wanting to be a doctor, and I had a brilliant, but terrifying, chemistry teacher). Sixth form was better, but I was at a different school, which was much more middle class (I always thought I was middle class, and then I went to that school and had a bit of a shock). My secondary school never seemed to encourage students to strive to do their best (they suggested I consider universities like Blackburn, my sixth form recommended Oxford! )