Schooldays are the happiest days of your life.

Absolutely hated it went in for Geography and History.Learnt more wagging it in various snooker halls.
Left at 15 never looked back learnt more in the university of life.Teachers were Drunks,Bullies and racist.
 
I think I actually got the cane more times then I attended a full day without wagging it. I hated school with a passion as I was bullied for being on free school dinners and being the scruffy kid. Needless to say I left school when I was nearly fifteen. But I've done alright for myself since, thankfully.
 
MCFC Wirral said:
I wasn’t bullied per se; just more left out of everything from cliques to house parties. Stew’s parents were also very working class but his mum inherited a huge amount of money so they could afford to send him there. Jon also moved over from Wales in the third year so we all stuck together.

It’s got me in to trouble before but I don’t back down from anyone and will confront if I feel I need to regardless of who they are. It’s an in built defence system.
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Im sorry you (and yours) weren’t able to enjoy life the way I did at Radcliffe Primary, a year at Stand Grammar, then Ashton Grammar & Sixth Form.

Wasn’t all wine & roses, but the only scars I have from those days are the loss of a girlfriend to an asthma attack, giving away my U2 ticket (Manchester Uni, their first trip over!) to a different girl I fancied and my parents not really enjoying the fruits of their extraordinary efforts to get ahead.

I managed to “escape” most of the downside of the 80’s by being in Uni in the States, where Raygun was making Americans feel on top of the world and being a fresh meat Brit at an American Uni was like being in clover.

I have been very fortunate and I’m thankful for that.
 
I went to a secondary school in a better area than i lived in as my local schools were shite.

I was there with a mate who i'd been in nursery school with from 3 years old, wouldnt say we were bullied but we were constantly reminded in the early years we were from a council estate - we never really understood it as we both came from decent hard working families who owned our own homes. But i still remember that feeling of being looked down on. Ironically we soon realised that living up to the very stereotypes we hated got the dicks off our backs and we both ended up with better jobs/careers than 99% of the kids in that school.

More importantly I'm still best mates with that 3 year old kid from nursery school, been all over Europe watching the blues together culminating in watching us complete the treble together in Istanbul.
 
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I remember taking my 11th Plus exam.
I missed about a third of the questions because i didn't want to go to Hyde Grammar school. (True story)

1) My big brother was at the secondary modern
2) It was a 10 minute walk whereas Hyde was 2 bus rides away.
3) My best mate at primary school told me he was going to do that as he didn't want to go to Hyde.

It was a shit decision, not that i know I could've passed but I've always wondered about that.
 
I didn't mind it on the whole but for me school dragged on too long. The poor sods now have to stay there until they're eighteen I believe! Once you've learnt to read and write and have a basic knowledge of other subjects that should be that. I was always in the top stream, passed my exams but I never once used my qualifications once I left. Schools should start to teach people life skills. D.I.Y, financial management etcetera, stuff that will be useful for them.
 
Not much to enjoy during the primary and secondary school days. Pressure from teachers, friends and at home to do well in all the exams. Too much disciplining (including caning) and a lot of monitoring too, I remember a teacher who complained my handwriting was not as good as before. The higher secondary school days were the best. Teachers exerting less control, the respect of the juniors and the days of waking up to meet my first love.
 
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Loved my time at Secondary school, never wanted to leave.

Loads of sports available all year round with all the equipment you could ever need, never been fitter in all my life.

The education part was not too bad either.
 
i went to a comprehensive that 2 years previous was all boys and corporal punishment was still allowed and 10 years previous was a grammar school.
Most of the teachers were from the grammar school period.

I met my PE teacher , who was always a good bloke, for a pint a few years back. I told him i thought the school let a lot of kids down because they just didnt care.
He explained that as most teachers were from the grammar school period, they just didnt initially know how to deal with the thick comprehensive kids so just caned and battered them. Then that was abolished so they just gave up on us. Great.

I came out with barely a GCSE. Didnt bother taking half the exams and teachers couldnt care less if i did or not. 25 years after i lett school i re sat my maths and english, just to prove a point to myself really and got A* in both.

But , as much as the school let me down academically, i enjoyed it really and most of my pals are from school, and we left 35 years ago. We had a laugh there.

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I understand school for a lot of people
Was hell on earth. I was lucky, i know that now, that i was part of the ‘in crowd’ but for those that werent i realise now that it was a miserable place.
I cringe at some of the shit that went on now and wish i could go back and not take part in the bullying :(
 
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Hated my secondary school with a passion and could not wait to leave, learnt more in the 12 months after leaving than I did in the previous 11 years.

Happiest days of my life my arse!
 
You’re not wrong there. You’ve got me remembering all the way back to 1969 now!

I got my first real 6 string and me and some guys from school had a band, we tried real hard.

When I look back now the summer seemed to last forever, those really were the best days of my life.

Shame it never worked out though. My mate Jimmy quit and Jody got married. Should’ve known really we’d never get far.

I guess nothing can last forever.
 
Hated both primary and secondary school. I was kicked out in year 3 of secondary school and had to attend a special school for naughty kids. Left without a single gcse.

Managed to turn in around by going to college then uni in my early twenties.I’ve had what most would consider a successful career so far.

By contrast my son attends a private school and absolutely loves it. There is a focus on the whole child and not just academics. As a result the kids are really nice humans…
 
School was mostly fine. Never really had any bother, I wasn’t top of the cool tree nor was I bottom.

Found lessons mostly a piece of piss, I did well without having to try particularly hard.

I went to quite a posh school with mostly good kids though and the worst thing I remember happening was one lad in my year throwing a chair across the form room in lower fifth. It was literally the topic of discussion for about three weeks, as if it was some kind of Arab Spring rebellion.

Hearing about some of the shit that goes on in schools now with gangs and teenage pregnancies etc feels like another world. I had quite a sheltered upbringing and I’m thankful for that.

In sixth form I properly discovered booze and girls and rock n roll and wore mod cut suits with bands button badges etc on the lapels, which is a bit cringey but at 16 I thought I was the dogs bollocks and to be fair it was the early 2000s and I was obsessed with Franz Ferdinand and the Libertines.
 
The only happy part about it was playing for the school football team.I ran out of
school after my last exam.Oh and don't ask about the nuns I am sure someone else will have mentioned them!!!!!!
 
DenisLawBackHeel74 said:
Hated both primary and secondary school. I was kicked out in year 3 of secondary school and had to attend a special school for naughty kids. Left without a single gcse.

Managed to turn in around by going to college then uni in my early twenties.I’ve had what most would consider a successful career so far.

By contrast my son attends a private school and absolutely loves it. There is a focus on the whole child and not just academics. As a result the kids are really nice humans…
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The best thing my mum ever did was send me to a private school.

Now people can agree or disagree on the politics of it but if I was a parent (I’m not - me and mrs marsbar both don’t really like kids) it would 100% be going to private school.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
I reckon if your life peaked in school, you've fucked up somehow.
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Agree with this. Some weirdos love reliving their childhood as it was probably the only time they received recognition, favouritism until they hit the real world.

School was shite
College was alright
Uni was good

Working your first job out in the real world was better than all of the above. Having money, freedom and a decent job trumps the lot. Only way is up from there.
 
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