School

[Ramrod]

Thanks for all your responses

[Aragorn]

For the most part I didn't enjoy school. Had a fight on the first day at Sec school ! Not being very tall and slow starter academically puts you at a disadvantage in a fairly rough school (Our school had a riot that got on the front of the Telegraph during a teachers strike .

Got more bearable as the years went on and sixth form was definitely better - most of the yobs had dropped out by then, left with other decent 'kids'.

Wasted most of my time at Uni - probably would have been better working for a year or two before going there - no self-discipline or incentive to work hard - but at least I met my wife there

[gooner4life]

In all seriousness it was the best time of my life.

Nothing can measure up to playing football on the fields in the summer with the lads, being surrounded by girls and just having no worries.

I dont remember Primary school that well but Secondary School really was excellent for me!

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by homealone

correct - you tie up the bottom of the pyjama legs, jump in the water, 'whip' the legs over your head to trap air, then tie off the waist & you have a float.

it probably lasts about 10 minutes, done well

By which point the cold ocean water will have reduced your core body temperature to a point you would be dead.
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School - Generally enjoyed it - I was not properly stretched academically though and found O levels a bit of a breeze, this came back to bite me in the 6th form when I did v. poorly at A levels because I suddenly had to study for them (and didn't).
At secondary school I met a great group of people who I am still in contact with which is nice - and interesting to see the different directions we have all gone in.

Originally Posted by greencreeper

No. I have issues with school - don't get me started

Was it difficult because you were struggling with issues of sexuality and the school couldn't help?

Because I've observed several boys over the years with this problem.Made my heart ache that I couldn't help as much as I could because of clause 28.

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by Incognitas

Was it difficult because you were struggling with issues of sexuality and the school couldn't help?

Because I've observed several boys over the years with this problem. Made my heart ache that I couldn't help as much as I could because of clause 28.

That was a part of it Coggy.

See here for my outpourings on the subject - http://dwarfinleopardskin.blogspot.c.../bullying.html

and here for my early years as a puff - http://dwarfinleopardskin.blogspot.c...7/im-free.html

[Bex]

Originally Posted by punky

Not really. I was bulled 95% of the time with varying degrees of nastiness. Sometimes it was bad, sometimes it was not so bad. I basically tried to keep out everyone's way and do the best I could.

The last two years, 6th form A-levels, were probably the best as the bullying more or less dried up and I had the most friends. Also having a bit more freedom was nice too.

There's no way i'd way to go to school in this day and age. Not with how kids are these days. I'd rather be gormless.

i think my experience at school was pretty much the same as this. i generally kept my head down and got on with it. unfortunately i was bullied at school and had some pretty emotonal stuff going on at home at the same time.

sixth form was a lot better for me..... i made some great new friends (even though i'd been at school with them since i was 11)

uni was fantastic... i loved living away from home and pretty much being mates with everyone in my lectures....

[Ramrod]

Got more bearable as the years went on and sixth form was definitely better - most of the yobs had dropped out by then, left with other decent 'kids'.

Same here

[MadGamer]

Originally Posted by bb31

I hated it and couldnt wait to leave.

Neither can i only got my GCSE exams to take and then im outta there. Cant wait for college, thats gonna be interesting and fun.

I hated school, so much. It wasnt too bad sometimes but I really did not like it. A lot of the time it depended on the teachers weither I liked my classes or not and the amount of prats around didnt help. I eventually just completely gave up on school in the end and although i attended and didnt disrupt anyone it was a case of sitting down and seeing though the day. Any real bullying didnt take place although I did get a little bit of hard time in the first few years but I sort of brought a bit on myself by not talking to anyone and acting like a complete anti-social geek. That stopped after a while and socially i got on much better but still hated school. I ended upp getting U's E's annd D's and one A.

But the last three years of college have gone very well and I keep gettings A's and B's and am going to UNI in september i pretty much know i have the grades to get into my first choice due to the 3 A's i have in my first few units

I totally despised school. I wasn't bullied really, and I'm so lucky for that, but I think the reason was that I was rather lonely. I did have a friend group that I hung around with, and although they never caused me any harm they were totally different people than I were. The chavs referred to us as 'the geeks' . They had their part of the playground, and we had our own autonomous part of the playground hehe. I went to a very small school you see, and there were few people in my year.You may be asking me to stop moaning, being with the wrong group of people isn't that bad. But really, spending 5 years at school day in day out, not really fitting in with anyone and not having any decent conversation really is depressing. It reached extreme lows in Year 10 and all just got too much within an RE lesson and I just started crying uncontrollably, and eventually I developed anxiety disorder and I genuinely think I was close to breakdown and had 4 weeks off, and only came back after being forced by my mother, and I fought very hard not to go back. If I had it my own way, I'd have studied at home, to get me away from people and to leave me alone, and I honestly think I'd have learnt so much more if I was left alone with a book rather than having to rely on the shocking teaching standard at that ghastly school. Not many people understood what I was actually going through, my friends had no idea somehow and my teachers said that I seemed a popular happy student. Happiness was the last emotion I was feeling.

I think if I'd have gone to a different school with different peers, things would have been a lot different.

College is very different. I have met lots of new people and formed great friendships which I'm sure will last for a long time. It's a completely different environment. I believe I'm starting to be happy, something which I haven't been for many years. I am with so many people just like me, and I think that is great. And I'm very grateful for this

I often have to go back to school to get some information about the IT GCSE which I'm retaking, and it really does make me feel very uneasy and the unhappiness all comes flooding back. It's horrible.

[Seti]

School. I was always very studious as a kid, I loved music, reading, English not so much maths, but, most things. I also enjoyed science! I know I am just a weird woman. Anyway I lost my dad in primary school in the first year and after that the bullying became insufferable. In fact if it wasn't for the books i took to school i doubt if I would be here now and balanced and relatively healthy. The first thing the kids did when I lost my dad was call me a ******* and flush my head down a loo. I was 8.

Things didnt' improve as although the "junior" school teachers knew of the problems with the other girls they stuck me into a class at comprehensive with them. I loved the learning just not the people I was with. They made my life hell. I have always been a bit chubby although not as bad as I am now and PE was pugotory. I loathed that lesson because the teacher thought it was ok to treat me as the other kids did. I was good at swimming, hockey and netball but never really given an opportunity because as the teacher put it "I was more well developed than the other girls and boys".

Asides from having nightmares about the PE teacher, I also got attacked at school so it wasn't a very happy time. I left in the sixth year to go to another all girls comp and didn't carry on. I went to Uni very late and wish I had gone earlier.

I think if kids are mixed and not matched there are problems but school is like a holding pen for all sorts of trouble lately. It's just sad and I hated the individuals concerned.

I loved my head and my music teacher although they became less supportive after the attack. I just wish things had been different and things weren't so hard then. I now have an MS nurse who was my best friend at school caring for me which is a bit of a bummer as she didnt' care when the stuff happened or didnt' understand

Sian

[danielf]

Originally Posted by Damien

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But the last three years of college have gone very well and I keep gettings A's and B's and am going to UNI in september i pretty much know i have the grades to get into my first choice due to the 3 A's i have in my first few units

Good on you mate Uni is great! It's a bit of a balancing act though: lectures, booze and babes...

But, being the responsible adult I am, I recommend the lectures

[LemonyBrainAid]

Hrm. I'm still in school..and i don't particularly...enjoy it.

It does get in the way of things i wanna do. And getting in trouble ain't much fun either

Originally Posted by LemonyBrainAid

Hrm. I'm still in school..and i don't particularly...enjoy it.

It does get in the way of things i wanna do. And getting in trouble ain't much fun either

one thing about going to boarding school was that the folks back home never really were informed of the detentions, the canings, the litter picking, etc - I used to wish my parents cared more - but also I played that for what it was worth...