What Elementary school did you attend for 8 years? ( Archived) (20)

I didn't attend.
I got kicked out.

Lol

Yah... I did

Allerton, Iowa.........attended there from Kindergarten thru Graduation in 1957. All classes were in the same building....maybe total enrollment for all grades was around 300 to 350 ??? We had 17 in my Senior graduation class.
Had a lot of fun there, small community ( population was approximately 800 at that time ) and our biggest school rival was a town 6 mile away, which we later consolidated with. Skipped school early one day...sitting in local cafe, and Band teacher walks in. Had to serve noon suspension for a week, I think. Those were the good ol' days !!!

One day when I was 5 years old, my mother took me to a big brick building and brought me up a couple of flights of stairs to a bench on the landing and left me there. I cried and begged her not to leave me but she turned around and walked down the stairs leaving me crying my eyes out. (This, like all the things she did, without any warning what-so-ever. I really felt like she was trying to get rid of me. First with the Summer me & my brother spend at a foster home, then this. I found out years later from my father that she also had put me in the New York Foundling Hospital when I was just a baby. In fact that is where my dad met a hot blond nurse who he started dating and eventually married. He also told me that this woman was at my first son Tommy's Christening. I remember a middle aged blond woman who was there that I didn't recognize. That, he told me, was his wife.) The building turned out to be a school. A strange woman heard me crying and opened the door and brought me inside where there were a lot of kids my age. In a minute I stopped crying.
Kindergarten turned out to be a lot of fun and I loved playing with the wooden blocks that were about the size of bricks. I would place them on the floor in the shape of a boat and sit in the “boat” pretending to be the captain. School wasn't so bad after all.
Then, I went into the first grade and my teacher was a Mrs. Deutsch. She was a freckled faced short skinny red head with a nasty disposition. I was an active kid and she hated me. I probably had ADHD but nobody knew what that was back then. My mother was an alcoholic and probably drank like a fish even when she was carrying me. My older brother was also hyper active like I was so she was probably drinking when she carried him too. Anyway, one day Mrs. Deutsch separated me from the rest of the kids and had me stand in front of the class and told the other kids what a horrible person I was, that I was a failure and wouldn't amount to anything as she pointed a bony finger at me and said to the class “You don't want to be like HIM, do you?” She made me feel like a worthless POS. Remember, I was only 6 years old. My self esteem was shattered. I reasoned that if I'm totally worthless there's nothing to be gained by doing anything in school. From that day on I never did classwork, homework or participated in any school activities. Mrs. Deutsch probably made an entry in my record that I was incorrigible and refused to do anything which followed me through Grammar school because every subsequent teacher treated me different from the other kids as if I was a bad kid. The only thing I did was take tests because I enjoyed them and I usually got very high scores. At my 6th grade graduation when the class pictures were being taken, the teacher whispered something to the photographers and they kept rearranging the seating positions of the kids. I was seated way to the right so that I wouldn't appear in the class group shot. Of course I didn't realize this was the plan until the yearbook came out and I wasn't in the picture.