What were you like in secondary school?

[Tom]

A somewhat reflective question this.

For the most part, I think I was allright. I had friends, didn't beat anyone up (well mostly), got beaten up myself a couple of times. Did ok in lessons but didn't apply myself. Wasn't really interested in anything other than Music and Art. Got shit results, which I improved upon massively when I went to college.

The rest of the time, I was a right little twat. I gave the maths teacher serious hell, along with the rest of the class. I tore down posters advertising the 1987 election, because it was fun (got a massive bollocking from the headmaster, in front of everyone). I kicked a lad once in the back, revenge for when he tripped me up 3 years earlier. Hurt him bad as well, just like he hurt me Got slapped by a girl after another lad told her I'd said she had 'massive tits'. Lies! Also got in a lot of trouble for being caught drinking home brewed beer (from a friend's house). Would have got away with it too, if it weren't for Craig Wilson necking a full bottle of wine and then being sick in P.E.

Oh, and there was the time I got blamed for drawing knobs all over a French book, when in reality it was the guy sat next to me. Same person who lied about the massive tits as well.

Ahhh, those were the days.

 

[old.user4556]

At my first secondary school, I was skinny, I wasn't cool, I was a nerd that excelled at computing, I was last to start shaving, last to have a broken voice, spotty for a while. I got in a fair few fights, I tried to get in with the wrong crowd to try to be "cool" which back fired. Man, it really was quite shite at times. All the "cool" people eventually bullied me quite badly, but by Christ i've had the last laugh reading some of their sorry ass Friends Reunited biogs which in less words tell the story that they all ended up fucking losers.

I changed schools at 16 due to my dad's job relocating and everyone was much nicer there than my previous school and had no problems at all, I actually enjoyed it.

 

[Wij]

Me and my friends hassled a teacher so much he had a nervous breakdown. Made page 3 of The Sun that story.

Bless us

 

[mank!]

i woz 'ard as fuk

 

[amase]

me and my friend stoled keys from English classroom...
Teacher said she will give price to person who gives her info...
Me and my friend told her we can get keys back but dont wanna tell who stole them...we gave her keys,got few 5's and she bought us ice-cream!

Stupid old women tbh

 

[Uncle Sick]

I was a right, f*cking bully...

Stuffed a kid into a vending machine once... and actually put money in to turn the little wheely plates in it. Hur, hur...

... toilet swirlies were good fun, too.

There'd be more to tell but I just got home from work.
Main part of my job involves collections. Anyone surprised? Hehe





/disclaimer - I mostly bullied assholes. I am not a complete bastard.

 

[DaGaffer]

me and my friend stoled keys from English classroom...


Stupid old women tbh

Well, you obviously never went in that room for lessons...

 

[haarewin]

for the first few years i was just quiet. everyone knew me because yelling out my surname to acknoweledge me was the school's favourite passtime.
i was never particularly good at sports, but i was always very good at chemistry and french. now im crap at everything, and i actually talk, too.

 

[Calaen]

Had a good set of friends, was never bullied or got into any fights, I was fortunate enough to be friends with most of the idiots at school while keeping myself out of trouble. Was a relatively good student at school I enjoyed it greatly.

Anyone else feel sad when looking back on their youth?

I had an absolute ball and owe alot to my Mother who brought me and my sister up on her own while working god knows how many jobs to make sure we got what we needed. But whenever I think about my childhood I feel as if I missed out on something, but I cant pin down what it could be.

ah well back to work...

 

[Chilly]

secondary school was fucking great for me. had a load of mates, boned a few birds, got arrested a few times, bullied the token twat every now and then. it's a shame it was a shit school because I never learnt how to work, because I wasmoderately intelligent I could pass all my GCSEs by doing fuck all work and glancing at a few books the previous day if I felt I needed to.

We need better schools for clever kids so they dont just sleep all day and forget they have a brain like I did

 

[Hansmoleman]

i had my group of friends, i didnt bother with people outside of it much, not unless needed, i passed my GCSE's to an extent i felt alright with (i could have done lots better but felt comfortable doing what i did). never really did any homework outside of art, the only subject i really enjoyed, never liked half of the work i was made to do cause i never saw the practical side of it. now im an aprentice trying to make up for lost grades and stuff

 

[Bodhi]

I was always the lazy smart kid at school, got good results but did fuck all work to get them, used to piss the geeks right off that I got marks close to theirs with like a quarter of the work. I had a few friends but was a total misanthrope so I hated most of my year and let them know about this whenever I could......still had a good laugh tho. Wasn't much good at sports (apart from squash and golf) and didn;t have much luck with the birds - I had a 6 year crush on a girl who wasn't interested which I couldn't get over for love nor money.

 

[throdgrain]

I was the school aardvaark tantalising captain.

 

[Gat_Decor]

We need better schools for clever kids so they dont just sleep all day and forget they have a brain like I did

we used to have them but then someone brought in the comprehensive system and it all got fucked up from there!

 

[`mongoose]

I hated it. It's not something I tend to discuss.

When people look back at a period of their life when they were young and really enjoyed life - I remember university. The only thing I took from school was the fact that I survived it.


M

 

[Vae]

We need better schools for clever kids so they dont just sleep all day and forget they have a brain like I did

we used to have them but then someone brought in the comprehensive system and it all got fucked up from there!

Yep the Grammar school system and the 11+ which Labour have mostly abolished.

It makes much more sense to stream children so that they are being taught alongside their intellectual peers so that they have people to compete against rather than trying to teach classes which cater to all levels of intelligence and which then fail to challenge the intelligent ones or to help the lower intelligence ones.

 

[DaGaffer]

Yep the Grammar school system and the 11+ which Labour have mostly abolished.

It makes much more sense to stream children so that they are being taught alongside their intellectual peers so that they have people to compete against rather than trying to teach classes which cater to all levels of intelligence and which then fail to challenge the intelligent ones or to help the lower intelligence ones.

In principle, you're right, but there are problems with this idea that shouldn't be ignored;

First, the 11+ itself. In the old days this was like a one shot deal, and lots of bright kids who didn't pass for whatever reason were consigned to the Secondary Modern system, which effectively fixed their 'status' for life (in general terms, I'm not talking about specific individuals). If the model was more like the American SAT system, it might filter the genuinely intelligent/hard working from those who just happen to be good at exams.

Second, streaming tends to reinforce trends so the good get better but the bad get worse. What you probably need is a system that rewards teachers on relative improvement rather than absolute grades and incentivises them to 'take on' the lower achievers.

I'm not saying lumping kids together is better than streaming, but a return to the old days of intellectual apartheid isn't the answer either.

 

[Vae]

In some ways I think your right about reinforcing trends DaGaffer. Where you take the top slice of the population, intelligence wise, kids who would be coasting along at the top of the class in a Comprehensive and doing no work, find themselves at the bottom of the class in a Grammar school and thus it pushes them to work more than they would have done.

If you take the extreme situation of taking the lowest ability pupils away then I can see that this could either have the effect of putting all the people together whose natural inclination is not to work and thus there is no-one to set an example to them and the trend is reinforced. Or is there the encouragement coming from being the top of their section of the population pushing them to do some work. I suppose this depends on the attitudes of the people. If they are merely just stupid but want to learn then there may the encouragement necessary to provoke and encourage them to work but if their attitude is wholely that they don't want to work and can't be bothered with learning then the negative trend is reinforced.

Given that attitudes are a reflection of initially how they are brought up by parents and then by their experience of those they spend time with it's easy to see that the negative trend being reinforced is the actuality. What is needed is some way to break the trend such as a good teacher grabbing their imagination and encouraging them. Sadly I don't think that happens enough.

 

[supersaint]

Me and my friends hassled a teacher so much he had a nervous breakdown. Made page 3 of The Sun that story.

Bless us

Wow,he was traumatised so much he had a sex change and got his norks out in a popular daily rag?go you .

 

[amase]

Well, you obviously never went in that room for lessons...

I speak english quite good for a guy old like me and from Croatia

 

[DaGaffer]

I speak english quite good for a guy old like me and from Croatia

Wanna bet?

 

[harebear]

Long haired metal guy (there was only 3 of us out of 1200 people xD) who played guitar. I was extremely lazy and did next to no work, teachers thought I would be a big failure but I did better than any other guys in my year. Everyone thought I was stoned 24/7. >(

 

[Dommers]

Vae, I totaly agree with you. I'm in secondary school at the moment. Doing alright for myself but I could try harder. As soon as we entered our school, which is a grammar school, we were streamed from our results in the 11+. This had a really negative effect on the kids who didn't do well in the 11+ because they weren't motivated enough as they saw all the other kids who were bright in the other classes doing well. I think we need to get away from streaming and try to get it so there is an equal balance between bright children and kids who arent that intelligent.

The teachers at my school suck big time. Our school has continually employed bad teachers from the day I got to the school. They fail to catch the kids attention and continue to stick to the same on boring curriculum that doesn't really get the mind active.

Education, education, education? You can fuck off.

 

[old.user4556]

I'm in secondary school at the moment.

So that explains all the owl pics!

I never clicked you were a kiddy .

 

[mank!]

Wanna bet?

do you speak fluent croatian? if not, fuck off!

 

[Uncle Sick]

So that explains all the owl pics!

I never clicked you were a kiddy .

o... rly?

 

[ECA]

ya rly

 

[caLLous]

The curriculum is the teachers' fault now?

 

[Conchabar]

how humerous so many under-acheivers =) quite funny how u guys drivel on about this system like a bunch of pompus arogant from the loins of royalty bunch of e-penis whoring twats.. plz if the english language is to much for u to bear dont over extend ure minds -_- this thread was more boring then reading law :|

i do belieive that to split up kids into sectors is an extremly negative equality. for the better part id say this is torry by nature and all that agree r really torrys that havent got the balls to say it (even though i agree with platos theology about the perfect society and that people who r not inteligent should be stuck in a lower standard job then one who is inteligent and so forth)

i on the other hand; have been told that i was a reveloutionary, legendary, genius.. for my self i thought skewl was the most pointless experience in my entire life apart from helping people enlighten them selfs and learning about behavioural patterns of society (was very intreaguing to the extent that solitude was a more appropriate from the madness of society) :touch:

 

[Lazarus]

I was the wimp and constantly bullied.

Did quite well without applying myself (to much of a lazy bastard when it came to studying.

Changed when I went to college tho.