What kind of school did you go to?

[subversplat]

Grammar school, where we were told that we were "in the top 5% of people in the country", yet the school doesn't even score on the top 100 grammar schools in the country

 

[Epico]

Bog-standard comprehensive again here.

 

[lyra_k]

a comprehensive that still thought it was a grammar school

haha! My main school was just a bog-standard comp, but in the 6th form we had to go to different schools for different subjects, and the one where I took French was just like that!

All the 6th formers (voluntarily) wore sloany clothes, half of them drove Triumph Spitfires and MGs, and they all talked in this cod-posh which was painful, since they were mostly very much from not-posh backgrounds (hence being at a comp, albeit one on the best side of town).

 

[nino_savatte]

Various US military dependent schools, including one where I was a boarder.

Oh, I left out the primary school I attended in Liverpool when my dad went to 'Nam.

 

[treefrog]

state school, but in scotland, so don't know what to vote for as here everyone goes to the same one and theres no 11 plus.

for once, i think it would be inneressin to see a public poll.

what he said.

 

[Dubversion]

Grammar school, following a covert 11plus.

 

[Belushi]

5 different Comprehensives.

 

[the B]

I'm sure we've had this thread before - but with a public poll.

http://urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=76473

urban75 - seemingly less state selective/grammar and more independent

 

[tommers]

assisted places public school....

 

[alco]

A mixed comp with a brilliantly run maths dept, luckily for us.

 

[rubbershoes]

prep school then public school

it was private all the way for me

it won't be the same for my kids

 

[longdog]

A good grammar school

Hated it and couldn't wait to leave.

 

[trashpony]

State till I was 6 then private. But I didn't live in the UK and my parents wanted me to have an English education in case we ever came back so private was the only option.

 

[Fuzzy]

grammar school for me even though i managed to fail the 11+.

 

[christonabike]

Failed the eleven plus, so:

div school

 

[Chocolatbutton]

Local Comp.

 

[milesy]

comp.

 

[Giles]

Local comprehensive school, Branston, Lincs.

Giles..

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Comprehensive school in Stevenage, albeit a Catholic boys'. Having since merged with the local Catholic girls' it has succeeded in attracting the middle classes of North Hertfordshire and thereby becoming the de facto grammar school of the area (or one of them).

It originated, by the way, at Mont St Michel in France.

 

[gaijingirl]

A girls' convent school. Loved it! It has a really old history (also orginating in France!), but is closing down this year sadly... They just never got the hang of making money out of it I don't think... the nuns were very charitable and too many of us got to go for free...

 

[anfield]

Comprehensive and proud. Went to Roman Catholic primary school.

 

[Ellie23]

I went to a grammar school. Our kids are bankrupting us, we pay for them to go to a private 'grammar' school because the local Comp. (there is no choice) is a "Dramatic Arts College" and is rubbish!

 

[christonabike]

"Our kids are bankrupting us"

I think it is your choice, not theirs

 

[WasGeri]

I went to the local comp - it was brand new (we were the first lot of pupils to go there).

 

[Sunspots]

I went to the local state comprehensive.

(-But yes, there were times back then when I wished I was at the local all-girls sixth form college instead... )

 

[dormouse]

A private school that still had to take plebs like me who passed the 11+ for free. I wished it hadn't, but I don't suppose I'd have enjoyed the comprehensive much either.

 

[moomoo]

A private boarding school which (I presume) my dad got help with the fees for as there was nowhere else for me to go! (Long story!).

I wanted to live at home and go to day school

 

[J77]

A local school for local people.

The teaching was pretty poor.

 

[fifibelle]

Just a normal comp (thought they're not called comps in Scotland). Teaching was fairly good - can't complain. Piss poor for sports though.

 

[Passdout]

A Grammar school in Battersea.