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.
 
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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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