Seniors, did any of you?

Question

go to a fee paying school, or a boarding one?

Answer 1

Yes we all went to a fee paying school for most of our schooling, it must have cost our parents a fortune as there were 4 of us, and the uniforms were not cheap either. My last year I got to go to the local Grammar with a load of my pals, it was quite a culture shock I can tell you. If I had known how much I would hate it then I would have stayed at my old school.

Answer 2

I went to a boarding school but I don't know if it was fee paying or not as it was a Grammar School which took in boarders. I still remember the smell of the Lavatories, and the ghastly food but it was during the 1939-1945 war.

Answer 3

Not by choice.

I was a rather rebellious teener. Never got in trouble with the law or anything like that...just truancy, defiance, etc.

I was a "child star" from the age of about 4 years old....not on a national arena but on the west coast. I went on from having my own radio show in 1945, when I was 4 all the way through singing with local bands when a little girl (the Shirley Temple syndrome, I guess) to a tap dancer with a pretty big traveling entertainment group by the age of 12 to country/western singer traveling with a home band and with many of the major country stars of the time. By the time I was 15/16, I thought I was some sort of big-shot anyway...so decided to quit school, marry an 18 year old high school drop out and go my merry way.

Well, my mother put a quick end to that. My "boyfriend" and I made a quick runaway heading for Lovelock Nevada to "get married" when I was about 15 1/2, which failed in Reno because my mother had put out an APB on us...and I spent a night in the juvenile tank in Reno waiting for Mom to come pick me up...

Needless to say, she and I fought like cats and dogs...she would take me to school and I would walk out the back door. So, one morning, she told me I was going to finish school because she had made arrangements for me to enter a convent school in a major city in northern Oregon - over 300 miles from home. The local truant officer (who was really a nice woman) picked me up, threw my teenage butt on a plane and the next thing I knew I was in St. Rose Academy.....surrounded by the goodly eyes of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. All school, all the time.....no weekends out no visitors except parents during certain times. A one week vacation in the summer but that was IT!

They straightened me out in a hurry and I ended up graduation Salutatorian - missing Valedictorian by 1/2 of 1 percentage point.

It was the best decision my mother could have possibly made. If she hadn't had the courage to do that, heaven only knows where I would be today.

After graduation, I joined the Marines. What the Good Sisters didn't finish, the Marines did.

HA!

Answer 4

Fee paying until I was 11, that's when my parents couldn't keep up with the increase in fees. Don't remember paying for books, they were handed down from year to year and included in the fees. I desperately wanted to go horse riding, but that was an extra, which I knew they couldn't afford. I was over 30 before I learnt to ride.

Answer 5

Yes, I went to Catholic school for 13 years. K-8 grammar school and 4 years of High School. We had the Franciscan nuns in G.S. and they were a tough bunch but back in the 50's, times were different and if we went home and told our parents that a nun hit us in school, we'd get bopped AGAIN!

In H.S. I had the Christian Brothers of Ireland and the principal would take some big football player and take him into the gym after school and put the boxing gloves on use him as an example. DON'T MESS WITH THE BROTHERS!

I'm one of 8 kids and my dad worked 2 jobs to keep all of us in school. He's a saint and so's my mom, God bless their souls.

Thanks for the venting time

Answer 6

No, Secondary Modern. Left school at 15 years old but went back to studying in my 30s and finally, by the age of 50, ended up with 2 degrees and a postgraduate management certificate. Never too late to learn I say.

Answer 7

No!!! school was mainly free for me growing up. The school supplied everything and mum did pay a small fee to the school that they let you pay off but that was all really.

Answer 8

Yes. I went to boarding school. All 4 years of high school.
We had uniforms too. Besides being good educationally,
it taught me to be responsible, tolerant and respectful of others. I learned another language and made some friends from all over the world. I still see my old roommate. Good question.

Answer 9

Boarding one

Answer 10

I went to nursing school for 3 yrs based in a hospital, they don't have them anymore,but my parents paid 300 dollars for the 3 yrs and that includes room,board and meals and laundry.My son went to a 4 yr Catholic High school and we paid I think about $1,600 per yr and I hear now it is over $10,000.