Who educated you?

[GePap]

This is an offshoot of the home schooling debate.

So, did our Poly posters go to a state run school, a privately run religious school, privately run secular school, or taught at home?

[LordShiva]

I assimilated knowledge from teh airwaves via meditation.

[GePap]

That explains so much.

[Asher]

State-run school + myself...

[Ben Kenobi]

Good question.

I was assigned to a public school here when I was quite young, there is one in the city specialises in working with deaf and hard of hearing kids. It was a public school that had a special program available which set it apart from the others.

I got transferred from that to a normal elementary school, after I was able to prove that I was able to function in them. I had a speech therapist, that I had to see throughout the week, and I would be excused from class for my therapy lessons.

I went to a public high school, and was offered the chance to do the IB program in grade 10. I waited a year to get myself ready for it, and then went into the full program in grade 11 and I gradded with my diploma.

So I've always been in the public system, but for the most part have had a 'supplementary curriculum', as I needed extra help on some things. IB was so much better then the regular courses.

[Jon Miller]

Private religious school for 3rd grade, and part of 1st grade, and kindergarten.
Home school for rest of 1st grade, 2nd grade, and 4th grade.
Public school for 5-6 grade, 8-12th grade (skipped 7th, mostly because of homeschooling 4th, I learned very little in 5-6th, as I had already learned in it 4th).

Private religious (not my denomination) for undergrad. Public university for graduate school.

Jon Miller

[Proteus_MST]

State run school, as most people in germany

[Pekka]

state run school. Good enough for me.

[CrONoS]

Public school... badly!

Pretty sure, I would have done much better during high school in a private school.

[Provost Harrison]

A state run school. Admittedly, a good one, but a state run school nontheless...

[Zero]

Foxnews

[Blake]

It was state schools which taught me to read and write, then impeded my learning for the next 10 years.

[Dinner]

State schools all the way.

[Aeson]

My parents taught me to read before kindergarten, bought a set of encyclopedias, and we didn't have TV (until I was 10)... I was in public schools, but essentially self-taught in most subjects.

[Kuciwalker]

One of the few phenomenally well-run public school systems in the country (and the #1 high school, public or private, in the country), plus a lot from my parents on the side.