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[quote=Anonymous]no.  neighborhood school or private catholic school if your parents didn't want you to go to school with black kids (this was the deep south).  Both options were second rate.  Had bad teachers and OK teachers.  High school AP English was pretty good (we wrote A LOT.  no one took the ap test though). I was bullied like crazy.  Didn't learn much, but I was smart and read a lot outside of school.  Went on to the big state second-tier college that was basically open admissions as long as you had a 2.0 in college prep corursework (so you had to take algebra 11 in high school).  From there I went on to decent grad school programs and, eventually, a tentured professorship in DC

Definitly NOT what I want for my kids.  And definitly not something I think is possible for them.  There is just more competition now - they can't meander through crap schools and land whereever they want like I did.

Even before I had kids (like my twenties) I knew I wanted a progressive education for them (unschooling or Montessori was the only ones I knew of at the time) that didn't involve workheets and memorization.

I will say I grew up grades k-4 in a little college town in the midwest and the neighborhood school was just amazing (we would call it project based learning now). Perhaps that foundation carried me through the crap schools that followed?  [/quote]

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