Just wondering how many Dopers went to schools that their parents went to?
For me:
Elementary school: my mother.
High school: my mother, my father, my aunt, my uncle. (I actually had two teachers that my Mom and Dad had.)
University (undergrad): my great-grandfather, my grandfather, my grandmother, my father, my aunt.
I went to the same high school as my father.
high school: my mother, 4 aunts, 1 uncle and 2/3 of my brothers. The school had moved to a new building by the time my brothers and I were there ( the old high school building was our elementary building), but it was the same school.
My maternal grandfather went to UW-Madison. My mother went there too (though she did spend a semester at a different school). All 3 of my sisters went there. My niece and nephew also went there.
My niece used “I’m a 4th generation” as part of her application
Brian
My bro went to the same college as our dad.
My daughter went to the same college as my husband.
That pretty much sums it all up. As I think of it, I don’t have many family members who did go to college. In my immediate family, of 5 sibs, only 2 of us have degrees. Among cousins of the same generation, I’m guessing my cousin Joe might have gone to college, but I’m pretty sure none of the female cousins did. I expect there was more attendance among the cousins’ kids.
Then again, my mother had to fight with her father to be allowed to finish high school - he didn’t think it was worth the cost for a girl, and besides, both of his sons dropped out, so what was she trying to prove?? :eek: - definitely generational, since Mom graduated in 1950.
My father, and his brothers, and their father and uncles, and… went to Xavier Castle ever since it became a school/Jesuit seminary until it closed.
My eldest uncle, apparently having managed to piss off everybody from the cat on up, finished HS in a different Jesuit school - which I and my brothers later attended. Since Uncle and Dad looked similar enough to be mistaken for twins, each of us spent our four years there explaining that no, that guy who looked like Daddy, was about the right age, and shared our first lastname, in one of the class pictures (these include ID-size portraits for every student in the last year), was not Daddy but Uncle Eldest.
My nephews are attending the same school my brothers and I attended: they will probably move to that same HS when the time comes. While we didn’t have any ancestresses who’d attended that school (the school went full-coed the year I was in 2nd grade, having been coed only for preschool for a few decades previously), there was an incident* which led to a PTA meeting being attended by grandmothers and one great-grandmother of my classmates, and talking about how things had been when they and their mothers and grandmothers had been students there.
My sister in law attended the same medical school as one of my great-uncles, and as my great-grandfather (father to that great-uncle’s sister in law). When my grandmother heard SiL was in school there, she showed her great-grandfather’s class picture (one of those described above, with all the little portraits) and offered it to her.
None at all. My mom went to school in a different state. My dad went to school in a different country.
I went to Purdue. My cousin went to Purdue. My parents both went to Purdue. Two of my uncles went to Purdue. My great-uncle went to Purdue and got a doctorate in biology there before Watson and Crick posited the double helical structure of DNA.
My brother and I both went to the same university as our parents. I ended up getting a BA in history, which was the same degree my mother got.
Elementary: The same one my siblings attended until third/fourth grade. It was a private school, and the person who gave my dad and sibs’ mom a discount on tuition died. The new principal offered a less generous discount, so my sibs finished elementary school in another public school. I finished it in the same school (mom had more funds and I entered it a decade after my siblings left).
Secondary: The same one my dad and his siblings attended. I even had a couple of the same teachers who had taught my aunt (and missed teaching my dad by a year).
Higher education: Nope, none have attended the same schools I have. I hope my bro stops his “I hate UF” schtick so that my nephews can use my legacy as a slight leverage in attending UF.
I attended the same college that my father did, but I was miserable there and dropped out after 5 semesters or so. Two decades later I got my degree from a different college.
Same elementary (parochial) school as my father. I don’t think it existed when my grandfather went to school.
My high school didn’t exist when my father was in school. At any rate, he dropped out to enlist in the Navy during WWII.
As for university, I’m the first member of my family to ever go to college.
Same high school as my paternal aunt. That’s all I’ve got.
My sister and I are both 3rd generation University of Florida alumni. Various other family members have attended as well.
Only one, UCLA. My father and uncle (his brother) had gone there before me. A few years after I graduated I got a recreation card and started working out there, a habit which I continued for years. What used to be called the Men’s and Women’s gymnasiums stand at the bottom of Janss Steps, and if you didn’t want to change and shower at home, you had to use the old locker rooms there. It was strange to think that my dad had almost certainly used the same locker room in the early 1940s.
Now the buildings are simply the Gymnasium and Dance Building respectively.
Nope. The closest we come in my family is that my paternal grandparents, my mother, her sister, and my uncle all went to the same high school in Galveston.
My brother and I attended the same private high school, but somehow managed different public elementary schools and middle schools despite living in the same house the entire time.
Being adopted, and then with a step-father, I didn’t have a whole lot of lineage I could claim so when a teacher in grammar school let it be known she’d hated my older brother, so of course automatically hated me, I felt a connectedness I’d never known before. When my adopted younger brother’s daughters later went there, too, I felt like our bucked-up trail was established. Weeds grow strong.
College: I couldn’t get in where my dad went, even if I wanted to go there. My kid won’t be able to afford to go where I went, even if he wanted to.
I think my niece went to my high school, but I could be wrong. Been before, expect to be agin’.
My parents and I went to school on different continents.
College: Same as both my parents, all their siblings, 2 of my cousins.