Did you have to attend regular school?

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regular public school system up until grade 12, which I finished by correspondence course through the mail. I also attended university for four years after that.

Same here. The only difference is that my special education classes are academic based while I was attending a self-contained classroom that hardly even teach anything abstractbased, more preparing for the disabled to be independent and get a job post high school life.

Was in regular classes through grade 3. The classrooms at the school at that time were K-2 in traditional classrooms, but "open area" from grades 3 on up. Open area was a big open space with individual classrooms divided only by portable chalkboards. With all the noise that spread with the sensory overload, i had a lot of meltdowns and was deemed unable to function in that environment.

Their solution: send me to another school that had an emotionally disturbed classroom. Problem there is that was also a mismatch as the troublemakers were also sent there and i was an easy target. Then they tried mainstreaming, but the teacher in the regular classroom wanted nothing to do with it and treated me like a pariah and welcomed the students there to do the same and looked the other way when the extensive bullying was going on. Of course the special-ed teacher and the other teacher deemed it was all my fault so i was given punishments a lot more severe than the troublemakers were given. That went on for the next couple years though the next teachers more were accepting me but were heavy on the punishments for minor infractions, and more so whenever i had a meltdown.

Then to junior high school where it was again in special-ed with mainstreaming. Total disaster there as i was an easy target for the whole school. Solution was to have me leave class early and take the city transit which the stop was 5 minutes prior to dismissal time for the school.

But things started to get better by grade 9. i grew a lot over the summer and was seen less of a target. Then one day on the school bus on the way to school i have had it with another student hitting on me from behind so i hit him back hard, then another student suddenly backed me up (surprise), then the driver stopped the bus with a message. Wasn't the best message but it let the whole bus know i would fight back.

From then i was taken out of special ed and made to through high school a lot easier.

I went to normal school. Our high school's only adjustment was a "learning centre" where all the kids with behavioural problems goofed around. So I learned to avoid that like the plague very early.

I went to normal, non fee paying schools for 13 years. I ended up going to a large fee paying school for my final year because I hated my old school and all the people in it. The fee paying school was a nightmare for sensory issues but there was no one forcing me to socialise so I actually did better off in that school than I had in my previous two, both socially and academically.
There's no provision for gifted children here so I took private classes at weekends with other gifted kids. The only help available was for those who were in the bottom third for English and Maths. I was in the top 5% for both of them throughout Primary school so no one realised there was a problem.

I attended regular public and private schools. I was also in honors/ap and gifted classes.

I don't know where you went to school but public school isn't really that bad. Then again some people may have had more of a unique experience with the public school system.

I attended good public schools and had gifted/advanced classes for part of it. The gifted classes were definitely the best - we could be ourselves and learn in our own way. My parents thought public school would be good for my social skills and it was, but I was quite a difficult student, skipped class a lot and many exceptions were made for me.

I went to regular public school, had special education plan for 2e in mainstream classroom, and did well academically.

Yes, I attended regular school and all of my classes that I took (from Junior Kindergarten to 12th grade) were either mainstream classes or honors classes. In general, I did well in these classes.

Yes, and it's probably the only reason I've found myself to be salvageable. My experiences with special education were so patronizing that they were a bigger cause of my self-esteem problems and fears as a teenager than any of my peers, differences, or failings. I probably did need some assistance at multiple points throughout my life, and I suppose it was better than nothing in the way that taking medication for a fatal ailment that has the side effects of turning you blue and making your eyeballs swell is better than nothing.

I was in a normal school until around 5th grade. I had a meltdown during Science and ran out of the building. After a few weeks, I was sent to a school for students with special needs. This school was combined elementary, middle school, and high school. I was in this school until I graduated. It was so much better than my old school.

I did and still go to regular school.

Ah yes, regular school....
Where being exceptional at language subjects annoyed the bullies
Where failing to be exceptional at everything else annoyed the teachers because I was obviously bright
Where it was mandatory to compete in all sports, thus demonstrating my state-level shotput skills,
and my far more impressive ability to run like a penguin on amphetamines....

I always have done, and still do.

Yes, sadly.

School was/is my most loathed thing.