My Personal Experiences about School Organization

As a child, we moved many times, so I have attended many different schools and experienced many different schools organizations. I never went to pre-school, which is very different from today, where most children attend pre-school or an early childhood program. My first experience with school was when I entered kindergarten. At that time most elementary schools included levels K-6 grade. When we moved to Oregon, I was in 5th grade, which was at the elementary school, but it was year-around school. The school was divided into groups, and there was a rotation schedule.  I personally still favor year-around school for many reasons, the biggest was that we did not have that long three-month span of no school; it was distributed evenly through out the year. I thought this was more effective in helping children to remember the material and stay with the flow of school. The other big reason is because children get bored having three whole months off and can start to get into trouble.  I was in Junior high when we moved to Minnesota. The Princeton school district at that time was junior high, 7th - 9th grade, and high school, 10th - 12th grade. Today I think they have changed that. Now they have a middle school, which is 6th-8th grade, and high school is 9th-12th.