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06.17.08, 19:22 PM New York City
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Is anyone here a lifelong NYer who went to public schools back in the day? If so, where and when? (I went to pvt school until 8th grade and then Science.) [ Reply | Watch | Flag ]
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I went to the public schools in Staten Island in the late 70s, early 80s (talk about big classes -- I remember about 36 kids in a class), then a Catholic high school, then a northeast boarding school. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.17.08, 07:23 PM Flag
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which SI Catholic HS? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 09:42 AM Flag
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Did you make it off the island? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 01:58 PM Flag
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There were 45 per classroom (with 4 classrooms per grade) at my Phildelphia Catholic School. No teaching assistants. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.25.08, 06:08 PM Flag
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dh went to public school in queens (bayside) then to bx sci. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.17.08, 07:24 PM Flag
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queens public schools through HS graduation - you got a problem with that? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.17.08, 07:25 PM Flag
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OP: Please oh please don't kiss my dorky Bronx Science ass, oh scary Queens girl. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.17.08, 07:26 PM Flag
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kick your ass cookie - you can take the girl out of Queens, etc. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.17.08, 07:30 PM Flag
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cracking me up [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.17.08, 07:34 PM Flag
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OP: meant to say "kick." [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 01:55 PM Flag
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All public (ps 84 on 92nd, Joan of Arc on 93rd, Stuyvesant), graduated HS in 85. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.17.08, 07:28 PM Flag
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OP: Thanks. Not sure why I asked, exactly. Just all the nuttiness about public schools and of course my mother doesn't remember it being as bad. (Then again, she sent me to private school until we were too broke to pay). [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.17.08, 07:32 PM Flag
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still, i think this is mostly a public school crowd so most of us probably went to public as well [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.17.08, 07:39 PM Flag
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OP: I wonder...it was different back then (I graduated in '85). There were fewer good schools, at least in Manhattan where I lived. Or so my mother tells me. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.17.08, 07:42 PM Flag
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I'm Stuy '85, too. Where'd you go to college? Me - Cornell w/ 40 of our h.s. classmates. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 08:20 AM Flag
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NP: I'm Stuy 83 from below, and went to Cornell too w/ 35 of my classmates. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 12:23 PM Flag
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OP: I went to Science, although a ton of my classmates went to Cornell, too. I went to Wesleyan. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 01:37 PM Flag
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I went to PS 6 and then Trinity for the rest [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.17.08, 07:30 PM Flag
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did ps6 have the same resources / as good an education as private schools in your opinion? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 09:19 AM Flag
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OK Queens elementary school in 1970s, crappy Queens middle school, then Stuyvesant, class of 83. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 06:39 AM Flag
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Queens public schools and then Stuyvesant '85. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 07:58 AM Flag
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Parochial school till 8th (SHSH) then Stuyvesant. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 08:09 AM Flag
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Does SHSH stand for St Hilda's St Hugh's? They were Catholic in the past? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 08:21 AM Flag
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Yes - Episcopalian (is parochial not the correct term?), and the teachers were mostly nuns. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 12:19 PM Flag
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Parochial is not the right word--it implies a school run by a religious order. SHSH is an independent Episcopal school--the school runs itself, although it belongs to an affiliation of Episcopal schools. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 04:42 PM Flag
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In my day, it was run by nuns from a convent - the Reverend Mother Ruth was the head of school. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 05:58 PM Flag
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she was the founder of the school--they were Episcopal nuns--the head of the board of trustees has to be an Episcopal priest or bishop [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 08:42 PM Flag
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Back in the day lots of the nuns from the order taught there, and the head of school and head of order were the same person, so whether or not it was technically "parochial" there was tight integration. Nowadays, the place is a nun-free. It was never Catholic though, always Episcopalian, and the liberal wing of the Episcopal church at that. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.23.08, 12:06 PM Flag
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Well, back in the day we had chapel every day, long chapel (like mass) every week, and Religious Knowledge as one of the courses we took every year. We did a Christmas pageant every year at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. And, there were a bunch of Jewish kids there (including me)- the nuns were always very respectful of the fact we weren't Christian. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.23.08, 12:17 PM Flag
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All of that is still true except the nuns, and the chapel I believe has been moved to St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia. Long chapel doesn't begin until middle school some time. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.25.08, 06:06 PM Flag
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I went to PS 40 before switching to private school in 3rd grade. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 08:21 AM Flag
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I went to PS 40 for a few years too! When were you there? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 08:40 AM Flag
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I went for a day or two - my grandpa was a principal on the UES - not PS6. There are a lot more "good" public elementaries now than in the 70s, the city was always always expensive. And come to think of it, when I was in college and grad school (ivies) I actually never met anyone from a public NYC HS that was not from a magnet HS (Brooklyn Tech, one in Queens, Bronx Science, Hunter, Stuy). [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 08:31 AM Flag
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I don't think your last point has changed. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 08:33 AM Flag
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OP: at least not at the Ivies. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 01:49 PM Flag
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I went to PS 116 for kindergarten in the late 70s. Then catholic school on E 28st from grade 1-8 [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 09:10 AM Flag
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Alicia Keys also went to school at PS116 in kindergarten, FWIW. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 09:16 AM Flag
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and Mischa Baron, I think [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 09:17 AM Flag
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Then Alicia went to PPAS in midtown [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 09:21 AM Flag
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what's that? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 06:02 PM Flag
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Professional Performing Arts School - a public 6-12 school on W 48th Street [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 08:56 PM Flag
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I think Alicia went to PS 6 for elementary. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.23.08, 12:50 PM Flag
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Went to PS 3 in the 70s [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 09:15 AM Flag
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I went to PS 9, then moved to cobble hill and went to PS 29. Went to I.S.293 in cobble Hill. Then didn't get into any specialized high schools (my brother went to Tech) and ended up going to John Dewey. My neigborhood H.S. was John Jay and as a white person I would have ended up getting killed. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 12:38 PM Flag
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I went private until 8th, and then Science also. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 02:14 PM Flag
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queens: ps114. JHS180, and Beach channel HS [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 04:50 PM Flag
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Best friend went through Astoria schools from k-12. Then to Columbia and a PhD, so I'd say she did just fine. . . [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 05:57 PM Flag
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I went to ps 40 and 104 and then humanities. Schools much worse now in some ways [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.18.08, 07:21 PM Flag
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I went to a public elementary and middle school that doesn't exist anymore. Then Bronx Science. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.25.08, 06:07 PM Flag
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