What Kind of School Do You Do?

[mechana2015]

...If that's the case my high school may have been doing BETTER. I only remember 2 pregnancies over 4 years among 2,000 students, all of who were grades 9-12.

[Nate]

I may have a bad memory or perhaps I just wasn't that social so I never heard gossip but I don't remember a single girl getting pregnant during my entire public schooling.

[blkmage]

I went to a terrible public high school and my life was fine. Even in a bad school, there will be good people there. There were a fair amount of really bright students who were overachievers and there were a number of really good teachers. I didn't find it was to my disadvantage at all once I went on to university.

It depends on the person, obviously, but for someone's who driven and is ambitious, I don't think the quality of schooling before university really matters all that much.

[Sheenar]

We had a good number of girls drop out my senior year due to getting pregnant --out of a high school campus of 1000 students, around 30 plus. Lots of drug usage as well --kids would come on my bus on occasion smelling like weed.

But I don't feel like public school really harmed me much. I wasn't all that shocked at the things I found at my state university b/c they were pretty much the same as in high school (drug usage, sex, partying, etc.) But I will say that university is so much better --people don't care what "group" you belong to and if they like you, they like you for being you for the most part. They are also not quite so immature in regard to how they act toward people with disabilities --I've run into a couple, but they are not the majority unlike when I was in middle/high school.

[firestorm]

As someone whose entire network of friends and relatives went to a private Christian school, I can safely say that it does not. In my specific case, the statistics are actually slightly skewed towards the Christian school being worse once you start adding in the post-high school issues.

As someone who had a horrible experience in a private Christian school I second this opinion, and add that It's either the same or worse than public school. Though I will say that people did things in the class in that private school, that can't be talked about here.

Also there is no fourth option for those of us who has had a mixture of both private school and public school, or all three. I was in public school from kindergarten to about 3rd grade, then homeschooled in 4th then, in a private school from 5th-9th then back to public for the last three years of highschool.

[Atria35]

I remember out of 3,000 students, we had 2 pregnancies the entire time I was there. Not too shabby.

But college is better. Sheenar has it- they tend to be more accepting and mature. Even so, I had the most awesome friends in HS.

[Cloud500]

I never knew for sure if anyone got pregnant while I was in high school. There were rumors that someone became pregnant after I left the public school and someone might have been before I came to the private school.

[FllMtl Novelist]

Unless you're homeschooled, in which case all that homework makes it so you're around your family all the time and never see anybody else.

YES. D: