Given all the recent discussions of public- and home-schooling, I'm interested in the breakdown of where you went to school (NOT where you send your kids).
Please do not debate the issue here. It is simply an informative poll.
Public schooled
Private schooled
Home schooled
Other.
Given all the recent discussions of public- and home-schooling, I'm interested in the breakdown of where you went to school (NOT where you send your kids).
Please do not debate the issue here. It is simply an informative poll.
Paul Korte
OPC
Flint, MI
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12 years in public school (2 elementary, 1 junior high, 2 highschools)
Joseph F Scibbe
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k-12 public school. 1 semester of so-called Christian college, remaining semesters at state schools (A&M - Texarkana).
Josh
CCRPC, RPCGA
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K-5 :Christian Private schools
6-10 : Redford Public Schools
10-12 : Home School Through Christian Liberty Academy
Andrew C.
IFB
LBCF 1689
Public k-12, now community college
Claudiu
Reformed Baptist
Immanuel Baptist Church
Folsom, CA
"But seek ye first the kingdom of God..." ~Matthew 6:33
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Public school, through high school. Attending a community college now.
Seeking Godly Wisdom,
Melissa
Baptist>Seeking Reformed Church Home
Louisville, Ky
Public school through my first two degrees.
Curt Lovelace
Pastor, Covenant Baptist Church (CBA)
Acton, Maine
Director, Lifework Forum
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Parochial school pre-school through 1st grade then public school all the way, including undergrad and grad.
Patricia
Communicant Member
Westminster Presbyterian Church, PCA
College Station, TX
Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.
David Brainerd
Public K-12, plus my bachelor's degree.
Anna
Wife of Tim/Marrow Man
Mother of Grace Cameron
Louisville, KY
Member of Midlane Park Presbyterian (Associate Reformed Presbyterian)
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Public - 6 years
Private - through high school
Public/Private - college
J Baldwin
Keowee Presbyterian Church, PCA
Pickens, SC
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K-12 : Private, Christian school
Undergrad : Public
Graduate : Private
Daniel
PCA
Memphis, TN
Public school for everything except some classes from the local seminary: K-12, undergrad years in Humanities, Music, and Physics, B.S. in Soil Chemistry, Grad School in Agronomy, J.D., LL.M.
But I have to say that the most important stuff I learned was either taught to me by my parents or through self-study. School was just a set of hurdles placed before me to keep me from getting into trouble.![]()
Raymond Victor Bottomly
Providence Reformed Baptist Church, Tacoma, WA
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Herald (06-30-2009)
Other than my three years at SWBTS, all public...including a BA and a MLIS.
Claudiu
Reformed Baptist
Immanuel Baptist Church
Folsom, CA
"But seek ye first the kingdom of God..." ~Matthew 6:33
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1-5 public; 6-12 private [I voted other; did both; college public, Texas A&M].
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Paroled from the public school system in 1972
Bob, elder, RBC Louisville. 1689 LBCF
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Joshua (06-30-2009)
Private (Catholic) school K-6
Public 7-12
Public University (SUNY Buffalo)
Private Grad school (UChicago for MA)
Public Law School (Michigan)
Private Seminary (RTS)
Fred Greco
Senior Pastor, Christ Church PCA (Katy, TX)
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It would be interesting to see the poll reconfigured to take in to account the age of the respondents.
My guess is that everyone older than 35 pretty much went to public or private schools. Prior to the 1980's you were a real radical if you homeschooled. Home schooling didn't really begin to come into its own until about 35-40 years ago.
Cornelius Van Til, by the way, was a big supporter of private Christian schools.
Wayne Sparkman, Th.M.
Director, PCA Historical Center, St. Louis, MO
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Public elementary, jr high and high school (Oak Harbor HS, WA, '87)
Private college, BA (Whitman College '91)
Private university, PhD (Northwestern University '97)
Todd K. Pedlar
member, First Congregational Church, (CCCC) Cresco, IA
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Public schools K-12, Cranford High School (Cranford, NJ) '64.
Kean University (Union, NJ), BA-Math, '68.
~Jay~
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disabled - cancer
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I had to choose other because I went to catholic school 1-4, public school 5-8, and 2 different private (non-religious) schools 9-12. I was a bad character, and nobody wanted me.
K-1 private
2-12 public
private (christian) college
private (Romanist) graduate school
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Matt
Reformed Baptist
United Reformed Church
All of the above:
Pre-6th -- local Christian school
7-10 -- homeschooled (Got my equivalency certificate and gave up on high school as soon as it was legal)
Post-secondary -- A.A. from the local JC and my A.B. from the University of California (graduated in '06)
Jennifer Petrik
Associate Member, Escondido Reformed Baptist Church
Student, Westminster Seminary California (M.A.H.T.)
Escondido, CA
per caliginem
I am 34, I went to publik Skool. I made the Dean's List and didn't even try because the standards were so low and I skipped about 10% of my year and only went consistently during football and wrestling season (which was 2/3rd of the year I guess).
Pergamum
"If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?"
-- David Livingstone
Public k through bachelors.
Zack Flummerfelt
Evangel Presbyterian (PCA), layman
Wichita, KS
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Public K-B.A.
Benjamin P. Glaser, M. Div, Licentiate, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
Ruling Elder Fairmount ARP Church
Pittsburgh, PA
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Similar story here at a Christian high school. We didn't have practices or games on Wednesdays so that folks could go to church. You could only practice or play games if you went to school on that day.I am 34, I went to publik Skool. I made the Dean's List and didn't even try because the standards were so low and I skipped about 10% of my year and only went consistently during football and wrestling season (which was 2/3rd of the year I guess).
So, it became an assumed thing in my class that I would not be there on Wednesdays, because there was no reason for me to go. It got to the point my teachers would actually reschedule tests away from Wednesdays, because they knew I would not be there![]()
One time, a teacher greeted me in class with a "What are you doing here?! Glad to have you" sort of sarcasm. It was Tuesday, but she thought it was Wednesday
There's no way I should've been able to get away with any of the stuff I did (or, rather, did not do - like homework, papers, and reading assignments). I graduated with a 4.0, having never read a single fiction book or short story (honestly), and never really doing any homework other than math, because she was the only teacher who kept me accountable for it.
It only got worse in college. Friends would jokingly ask how many times I planned to go to a particular class. My only answer: "How many tests are there?"
Jeremy Gage
First Baptist Church
Durham, NC
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Theoretical (06-30-2009)
Public school. It made me the man I am today. doh!
Bill Brown
Elder
Grace Baptist Church
Maryland
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AThornquist (07-01-2009)
Recovering public school inmate 92.
Private College 97.

Anglican school k-2
government school 3-5
Methodist school 6
Baptist school 7-10
different Methodist school 11-12
government universities for 5 years.
Amazingly enough, the government school was about the best of the five. The Baptist school had some very intelligent students, and the second Methodist school had very good resources. Both those two had fairly good teachers. But each also had some major problems, especially with arrogance.
T W Hopper
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church
Currently between churches since PRC closed here - attending Crossroads Christian Church.
Canberra, Australia.
Public School (K-12) (Redwood HS '90)
Community College
Public all the way!
Dan
Member, Soaring Oaks Presbyterian (PCA)
www.soaringoaks.org
Northern California
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Public school, no college.
Theognome
Bill Cunningham
Covenant Reformed Church, URC
Kansas City
There are three kinds of people- those who can count, and those who can't.
In light of the requests for ages, I will update my post.
I am 64. I started public school in 1950.
I graduated from a public high school in 1962.
Then I went to state colleges/universities for my BS and my MA.
To seminaries (private, of course) round out my formal education with the M.Div and D.Min.
Curt Lovelace
Pastor, Covenant Baptist Church (CBA)
Acton, Maine
Director, Lifework Forum
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Kindergarten @ a Catholic school (my parents very strictly kept me away from praying to Mary, etc., and my teacher was a Baptist), 1-12 @ a public school, and I will be graduating from my private, secular university in 2012...if the world doesn't end, that is.![]()
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In college, attending First Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), Ada, OH, and
Belle Center Reformed Presbyterian Church (RPCNA), Belle Center, OH
When at home, attending Covenant Presbyterian Church (OPC), Mansfield, OH
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I will date myself. public elementary 1 thru 8 small southern town. We read the bible in class, prayed, and the teachers paddled the students. I got bit by a wasp near my eye and one of the teachers took her cigarrette and made a tobbaco patch for my eye.
There after public thru college in California.
Jeff Allen
First Baptist Church SBC
Christ Follower
"Unto Him that Loved us" Revelation 1:5


@ a Baptist teaching at a Catholic school!
Ben, I admit I'm really surprised to hear that you went to a public school. You must have had some very good teachers.
Andrew C.
IFB
LBCF 1689
I went to public school, and got educated by myself in my extra time.
Adam B., Wine Country, California, PCA
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K-12 public schools
State College right now. Hoping to graduate it in the fall.
Seminary after...
Julio Perez
Visting Branch of Hope OPC hoping this will be my home church.....
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K-12 Public
BS - Private
Currently attending private for a MAR
James N. Walling
Center Grove Presbyterian Church (PCA)
IL
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Parochial K-12
Public undergrad (Grand Valley State Univ)
Public grad (U of Michigan)
Nate
Protestant Reformed Churches in America
Grand Rapids, MI
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