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[bionic barrel]

loved- skool dinners, doing sports, playing bulldog,the skool trip and doin stuff in science

hated- getting out of bed at what seemed like the middle of the night, bullys, the 90% nylon uniform and french.

[Severus]

Hated everything about it. 5 years of constant bullying.

[heartofGold]

Gypsy tart

And outdoor swimming lessons followed by hot sarsaparilla

[paley]

I likes most things about school.

I wasn't keen on physics

[Mistress_Marlowe]

Hated everything about it. 5 years of constant bullying.

Same for me.

I was never cool enough for the cool kids and never nerdy enough for the nerds. I was also the only goth/rock chick, and even though I didn't dress alternative for school, I still just had that look about me. I also have partially afro hair, so I always had massive hair, which didn't help. Nor did the fact that I would speak up for myself instead of shrinking away.

It was years later that I bumped into someone who used to be in my classes, and he said I was always the secret crush of the cool lads but they never dare say anything because the cool girls would have made their lives hell. This has never changed, to my knowledge, or at least I'd like to think that's why I've been single for so long!

I also never sat my English Lit exam, because the teacher withdrew me from it. We had to do a comparative essay on two novels, so I wrote a feminist essay on a Jilly Cooper and a Jackie Collins. The teacher said my essay was brilliant, but that I couldn't submit it because the books weren't literary enough. She gave me two days to write something else. I told her that was impossible as it meant reading two more books in a day, so she withdrew me from the exam. As I went on to do two literature degrees, I don't think it made any difference.

I do miss chocolate sponge and pink custard from primary school though!

Edited by Mistress_Marlowe, 06 March 2012 - 09:23 PM.

[GeordieSaint]

As I went on to do two literature degrees, I don't think it made any difference.

That's just greedy!

I used to love playing sport at school, especially at dinner times when we'd race to the tennis courts to find a spot to play football, which would regularly turn into a punch up about a missed penalty or something!

School dinners were great as well plus catching a glimpse of the girl I had a crush on for ages was always a highlight. I actually saw her again prior to deploying a couple of years ago and told her about my crush; slightly embarrassing and she was still hot!

As for dislikes, probably my German teacher constantly stroking his beard and being in the class with the worst rugby team in my half of the year when it came to house sports!

Edited by GeordieSaint, 06 March 2012 - 10:43 PM.

[gingerjon]

I'd burn the place down tomorrow with most of the people I had the misfortune to spend time with locked inside.

The lunchtime chips were nice.

[l'angelo mysterioso]

loved the dinners, art, english history, geography and RE, my friends

hated the way sport was taught,apart from cricket which I adored and playing touch rugby with a rolled up exercise book at lunchtime. being bullied nextremely violently and humiliatingly by Peter harrison who went on to play for Wakefield Trinity and his namesake 'nodder' Harrison., teachers who didn't see me as a person.

I loved primary school and junior school. Mr Madeley my teacher who got me through the 11 plus was my hero.

Edited by l'angelo mysterioso, 06 March 2012 - 10:31 PM.

[Griff9of13]

I'm with the Sev, MM and Ginger faction, I hated every minute of every day that I was forced to endure. I actually left before the exams to start work, having to take time off work to go back to sit some of them. Not surprisingly I didn't do too well, managing just one solitary 'O' level and a handful of CSEs. Which, looking back, was not too bad considering the (lack of) effort I put in.

Still managed to go to uni many years later and obtain a degree though.

[Bob8]

I did not love it. Though, I do remember my first rugby (union, I am afraid) lesson.

We were paired up and as the smallest lad, a rather cowardly large lad paired up with me. We did one-on-one tackling and he under-estimated my sheer aggression. On one occasions I did not have him down properly and did not think I could stop him raising, so I yelled into his ear along the lines of "If you **** have any*****, You will ***** stay the ***** down or will ***** rips your ***** off, you *****" at the top of my voice.

The teacher picked me up and announced; "That is the attitude!"

I then decided that I liked rugby.

[HaroldShand]

I hated crawlers who brown-nosed the teachers. Horrible, side-parted, half-mast wearing little scumbags.

[Severus]

My experiences are similar to MM's. I was not allowed to take my geography A-level despite getting a B on the mock exam and I was only entered into AS level Maths because I was missing a lot of school because of personal problems. A few years later I was awarded a first class honours degree in maths followed by a PhD. I would love to go back and see my teachers again and tell them how close they were to ruining my life.

[hindle xiii]

School was fine, pretty good through nostalgic eyes, all 4 levels were splendid.

I wasn't bullied or owt and that's surprising considering I was a fat kid. In my year I was mates with the smart kids, mates with the stupid kids and mates with the asbo kids.

[Wolford6]

Loved:
Playing rugby, playing cards, bunking off to listen to records at our mates' houses.

Hated:
Not having any money till I finished at 17.

I went to an antediluvian boys grammar school and don't regret it, but I had sisters. A few of my contemporaries took years to gain any confidence with women.

[ckn]

I'd burn the place down tomorrow with most of the people I had the misfortune to spend time with locked inside.

The lunchtime chips were nice.

I think you may have some unresolved issues in your past!

[Just Browny]

Spent a lot of the time on the precipice of a kicking from the lovely lads who used to come over from Runcorn (an odd situation, the school was in Appleton), which won't be a surprise to those who know me on here.

Other than that I was lucky enough to have some brilliant teachers who supported me and sparked my interest and love for the stuff I enjoy today: English and French literature, economics, political sciences.

PE was awful, traipsing around a muddy field with a number of thugs who were likely to pay you back after class if you dared to tackle them. Union was of course the order of the day, even though most of the lads preferred RL and the teachers would tell us to look at the movement of the Paul brothers or Kris Radlinski for inspiration. Hours and hours of lineout practice apparently for no reason.

[paley]

Likes - Having a golf course, playing in Fulneck valley during the dinner break (beck jumping mostly), the school dinners, the 6th form orchard, being in school with people from many parts of the world, the snooker table in the 6th form building, the intense rivalry over who had the best fountain pen, school trips where we were treated as responsible people, the sailing club.

Dislikes - I never got physics (I don't recall a single experiment the teacher set up actually working), having to play union for 3 years without anybody bothering to tell me how to play it or what any of the rules were

[Futtocks]

Persisted with education as far as A Levels for parents' sake, then (thankfully) was offered a job. I don't think I could have endured the education system any longer than that.

[marklaspalmas]

Loved: None of it.

Hated: None of it.

It was all pretty humdrum, routine stuff. Got up (tired), went to school, had some boring & some interesting classes, had lunch, hung out with mates, day-dreamed about impossible to get girls, went home.

Passed my exams, went to Uni. Lost touch with every mate I had from school.

[MikeW]

Loved: None of it.

Hated: None of it.

It was all pretty humdrum, routine stuff. Got up (tired), went to school, had some boring & some interesting classes, had lunch, hung out with mates, day-dreamed about impossible to get girls, went home.

Passed my exams, went to Uni. Lost touch with every mate I had from school.

This, except most of my current mates are school mates.