What were you like in secondary school?

[Whipped]

I was bullied prettty all the way through secondary school. Skinny, into computers and brainy. Your sterotypical victim for bullying.

Used to get "passed down the line", which involved the whole class pushing the tables together, the two biggest bullies picking me up and throwing me down the tables, at which point I would be punched by all and sundry. This was with a teacher in the fucking room.

To be honest it's a wonder I'm sane and not a footnote in history for going on some murderous rampage.

Somehow I managed one steady girlfirend out of this mess, which was plesant

Two of my former classmates are now dead from "accidents". I swear I had nothing to do with it

College and University taught me that not everyone is a twat

 

[Kaun_IA]

mhm, iwas just in the middle. not being bullyed and not being a "cool kid"

allso i was a "loner" then too, didnt go out much, was mostly behind a computer or doing homework and stuff like that.

one thing for sure, uni as changed me alot. now i go out more, ppl dont mock me for my brains P and i have more friends!!

ppl here are nicer and more grown up (well sometimes not)

 

[gmloki]

I used to be the joker of the year really. Mouth got me in lots of trouble. Saved me from a few good hidings as well. Pretty bright but could never really be arsed with it all. 1st year I was in the top set. Second year I wagged it pretty much. Third and 4th year Did ok without ever really setting the world on fire. 5th year wagged it, did pretty much fek all apart from Ouija Boards and other such stuff. Passsed all my exams.

Always tried my best to be a right pain in the arse for teachers who I disliked. Once got my art teacher suspened because I was that crap at it. He was that disgusted he threw my folder back at me and cut my head open

To ths day I have a low bordem threshold. Nice to see all the plebs who used to be teachers pets and arse lickers ammount to absolutley nothing as confirmed by Friends Reunited. Still I made some good freinds at school and found my first real love, Rock Music

 

[leggy]

SO to summarise:

You were all hard as nails.

You were all lazy geniuses.

Most of you made an attempt to get laid.

One of you tantalised aardvarks.

......................

As for myself, I was distinctly average in everything I did.

 

[old.user4556]

I did stick my fingers inside a girl in third year, that has to be the most memorable moment of secondary school.

Add that to your list Leggy.

 

[Clown]

LEGGY IS BACK!

Hey, I was in all the interviews to go to Cambridge and stuff when those fuckers came to my school. Then I got bored and didn't go to school.

 

[TdC]

SO to summarise:

You were all hard as nails.

You were all lazy geniuses.

Most of you made an attempt to get laid.

One of you tantalised aardvarks.

......................

As for myself, I was distinctly average in everything I did.

you forgot me. I didn't do anything at all. it took till I was 21 before I realised you had to do things at school. about the time I stopped taking drugs btw. oh, and wb

 

[SawTooTH]

Tried bullying but I was no good at it as I had a concience. I was basically built like an Ox compared to everyone else so had a pretty quiet time for the most part. Befriended a geek who shared the same sense of humour (Monty Python). Did crap after O levels as they were back then. I thought it was me until I went to college and retook my a levels in a year getting top grades so I think my school was shit.

 

[nath]

Hated it, hated everyone else almost as much as I hated myself. Quite how I made the transition from that to the jolly happy-go-lucky person I am today I'll never know.

 

[throdgrain]

Lmao

 

[Mobius]

I used to hate it so much, especially getting up at 6am to get the train. Looking back though it was brilliant and I wish I could go to school forever. I was actually really smart until about year 9 when I started hanging around with some different people. My grades and attendance went down, and I never really recovered from that.

I was skinny but quite tall. I never had a fight with anyone and never had sex during lunchbreak. Mind you I did go to a boys school. I was just your average student, avoiding answering questions in class and never doing games or PE.

 

[mank!]

in all honesty i was somewhere between a loner and popular, mostly i drifted between groups of people and kept myself to myself.

got bullied a bit in the first couple of years, then i suddenly became 6 foot tall, started to sound like barry white and had sideburns. so i started knocking people about a bit and the bullying stopped. made a few mates who weren't exactly model students and ended up getting into the odd bit of trouble, mostly because of my big mouth and stubborn streak. my favourite past-time was swearing at teachers cos it made me look big and hard.

dropped out of school 6 months before my gcse's and my life went to pot after that.

now i've started college, i've never been so popular, i've got some really good friends, some good mates and found people i've got stuff in common with. it's all good. and i've got an even bigger mouth now

 

[Lester]

Leggy has it right. We all think we are the bees knees (what's so good about bee's knees by the way). At the end of the day, we are all incrediby average people who will amount to nothing and even if you make a shitload of money or are famous, it means fuck all. Everything you have ever done or will do, has been done by someone else, probably better, or with more style.

The best you can do is to make sure your kids love you till you die.

(That's the Jack talking by the way)

 

[Tom]

Well I hope I didn't come across as trying to be cool or anything. Basically I was allright, but who wouldn't change things from their past?

 

[throdgrain]

Leggy has it right. We all think we are the bees knees (what's so good about bee's knees by the way). At the end of the day, we are all incrediby average people who will amount to nothing and even if you make a shitload of money or are famous, it means fuck all. Everything you have ever done or will do, has been done by someone else, probably better, or with more style.

The best you can do is to make sure your kids love you till you die.

(That's the Jack talking by the way)

Fuck off Lester, Im bloody great

 

[TdC]

Lester's just jealous he was distinctly average while the rest of us rocked hard and kicked arse

 

[Alliandre]

I was generally above average in Mathsy type stuff, but below average in the stuff like wood work, food tech, englishy stuff. I could do stuff if I put in the effort for pretty much everything except English, but it took alot from the teachers to get me to do something, especially as I was pretty adept at hiding up the fact that I wasn't doing stuff.

I wasn't a hard nut, though I did once almost strangle one of my friends who kept pissing me off in a history class. Speaking of which, I generally kept to my small group of about 7 friends.

Overall I doubt anyone would remember me if it wasn't such a small school that there was only 90 odd people in my year.

Oh, and average is a myth leggy

 

[DaGaffer]

Left as quickly as I could at 16 as I wanted to get out in the 'real world' and had found school incredibly boring. Later on I realised it was just the school itself and not the education that I found boring, and that the 'real world' sucked, so I scuttled off to Uni.

Was distinctly average at school, academically and athletically (I'd be one of the lads who would sneak off for a ciggie during cross-country, and I was a lazy fucker when it came to homework). Got bullied a bit, but nothing serious; I was quite a small kid until I was about 14, when I all of a sudden a grew 9 inches taller in about 9 months. My Dad's also quite a small bloke and he taught me how to fight dirty (ex-army), so I tended to only get picked on once.

I think the thing I hated so much about school was that you could get pigeonholed by teachers pretty early on, either systematically through streaming or just through the teachers' personal views, and breaking that stereotyping was next to impossible. I only had one teacher at school who made the effort to push me, the rest were shite.

 

[leggy]

you could get pigeonholed by teachers pretty early on, either systematically through streaming or just through the teachers' personal views, and breaking that stereotyping was next to impossible.

Couldn't agree more. I was stereotyped as the lazy twat who talked too much shite in class and didnt try hard at P.E.

How pissed off was I when I realised they were right?

Seriously though this was one of the contributing factors to me hating all my condescending teachers.

 

[Athan]

I was very quiet and shy, but in secondary school somehow managed to only get into a couple of fights through it (there's always someone who has to have a go for the hell of it).

I was a 'swot', simply because at that level I found most of the lessons effortless. Maths, Science (particularly Physics), English Language, Geography, all easy. I didn't like Social Science, French or English Literature too much though.

I did OK at PE mind, I had enough natural ability it seems (played Sunday League and school soccer for teams aged 11, got invited to play for both basketball and field hockey teams in aged 15, but had to turn 'em down 'cos I had a paper round). I was nothing like a certain lazy so and so who would spend the entirety of a PE lesson of soccer/whatever in the middle of the field running away from the ball if it came near him.

A Levels continued much the same (ABB, Physics/Maths/Chemistry), then I hit a brick wall at Uni as I could no longer breeze through things and had no clue as to how to apply myself to actually study :/ .

-Ath

 

[Whipped]

PE for me was first thing on a Monday morning. Living 30 seconds walk from the school, I just used to lie in and come in for second period.

I do wonder how I was never called up on that though. Strange. I guess I was so bad at sports when I was there that no-one ever saw me, so when I was gone I wasn't missed

 

[Calaen]

Well I hope I didn't come across as trying to be cool or anything. Basically I was allright, but who wouldn't change things from their past?

I wouldnt change a thing tbh, no point I am who I am because of the good/bad things that I have experienced.