Same, here. To get a course that taught replication and experimental design and analysis, I had to go to a residential high school specifically for Math and Science. It was a required first-semester course that spent a lot of time on how to enter data into a calculator and generate graphs/t tests/etc, and I had this nasty habit of spacing out and still completing the assignments. Suffice it to say, I was not prepared for college Physics.

I only ever had one teacher in public school who put emphasis on the science part, but that was primarily in the evaluation I got at the end of the course; meanwhile, I'd been reading Hypephysics and had been commenting excitedly about the particle zoo in the time before the bell, to no good reaction from anyone. Needless to say, rather than getting the point, I applied for the afore-mentioned Math and Science school.

Middle school science was all memorizing lists and labeling diagrams. Hell, College Biology 101 was all memorizing definitions and labeling diagrams and occasionally poking dead animals (in order to label more diagrams).