Pre-kindergarten through 8th grade, I went to a small Lutheran school with all of 40 students in all grades, combined. It really was a great experience. I grew up with a lot of those kids, and so older kids help younger kids, and younger kids look up to older kids, like we were extended family. We also got lots of one-on-one time with teachers due to small (minescule?) class sizes.
Two years of high school, I went to a much larger Catholic school (500 students all told). I'd never had a locker before, so it was interesting. Also, being raised Protestant, I really gave the religion teachers hell!
Last two years of high school, I went to a kind of charter school at the local community college. Core high school classes we took with other high school students, but we got dual credit for college classes -- they'd apply to our high school diploma and towards a future college diploma.
I went to the state university for a year (thanks to the charter school, I began at a sophomore level), then a private Calvinist college 1,000 miles away for a semester, which was rather traumatic, and finished off my bachelor's back at my original university.
I'm hoping to go back to the university for grad school.
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