Were you good in school either academically or at sport?

I had a turbulent time in school. Hyperactive, excelled in sport and often participated in cross country running, playing football for the schools etc.
However academically my mind was elsewhere and i only ever behaved in History/Geography lessons.

Was settled in a RC primary school in Manchester for a few years and after my parents seperated, I went to a new school in New York (USA) for a few months. Strange eh?
Came back to Sunny Manchester, went living with my Father and got settled in a new RC primary school in Farnworth, Bolton.
Went to a RC High School in Bolton for the first year, then went living with my Mother (as she won custody of me)
Then went to a new High School, this time a Comprehensive in Bury. was expelled after a few months in my first year there.

Sent to a part-residential school for bad boys called Summerseat House near Bury. They used to do all kinds of assessments on me as I was constantly hyperactive, always fighting and so on.
Was a right little shit, no wonder though with what my Father did.

Summerseat house decided I wasn't bad enough for their school so I was then placed in this portacabin area, excluded from the "normal" kids and was amongst the other weirdo kids
at Radcliffe High School.

I was dragged out of there by my Mother and from the age of 14 I didn't attend any school.
Was mostly interested in Computing, videogaming etc so spent most of my time doing this.
I also got involved in Martial Arts which helped me with my hyperactivity.
From 16 I went to college and did a load of shit, such as obtaining my Maths/English GCSE equivalence Quals.
Went to Uni but dropped out after my second year due to illness.

Pile of shit really, most of my knowledge has been obtained through the internet which I've been using from the age of 8yrs old.

So yea I'm predominantly gifted with sport, I found a sense of achievement in competing in sports such as Muay Thai/MMA.

Know of lads who were academically gifted at school, superb kids, yet are still working at Tesco on the fucking checkouts :/
 
Average at both I suppose. Was in the footy team at junior school, played only a few times for my secondary school team.

We played William Hulme at cricket once. They all had their own kits, whites, pads, bats, gloves etc. We were a poor secondary school from South Manchester, and we just had one bag, and had to share everything. It was embarrassing having to wear a pad only on your leading leg, and then change that with the next batsmen. We beat them though, thanks to a couple of our lads who played for Manchester Boys.

Our form teacher gave us a quiz in the first year, boys v girls. He was a bit of a ladies man, and wanted the girls to win. They got their final question wrong, so he asked us boys the hardest question he could think of - what's the capital of Bolivia? Nobody knew, so I stuck my hand up and answered La Paz. We won the quiz, to everyone's surprise and I got a reputation as a bit of a brain box. I only knew though, because friends of my family had just moved there to learn the language as they were going to be missionaries.
 
Got A'levels and went to Uni. Whether it was primary school, secondary, Uni or Post- Grad never applied myself anywhere near 100%. Always did the bare minimum to get the qualification to move to the next level. Revised for exams night before, handed in course work last minute etc. Some of this was due to pissing about either with mates or on the computer ZX Spectrum in my secondary school years. Also missed loads of lessons with or without permission to play more or less any sport going. I was in every school team swimming , running , football, was always a good all rounder and good with game planning and tactics but never had any talent to be anywhere near the best in any team.
 
BimboBob said:
Yes to both. County schools at football, hockey and tennis plus top set for everything academic. This went to pot when beer, fags and girls up for anal took over.
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The anal girls tried to stage a coup at our school too. Wasn't long before the arse fell out of it.

Sorry. Bedtime.
 
Seems to be a theme here, lots of potential but those damn distractions everywhere. Academically I found school easy, good at swimming but hated team sports. Then I discovered beer, motorbikes and girls...end of
 
I was told by more than one teacher I would either end up a millionaire or in prison! The only subjects I excelled in were ICT, and any of the Tech subjects.

I reckon I spent 95% of my school life arsing around but played rugby, football and cross country until I tore my ligaments in my knee. Played football again at college and then sunday league for a few years.

A few months after leaving school I realised I had wasted lots of time so did my national diploma in ICT and did all my Microsoft certs, realised I could not hack working in an office on a day to day so binned it off.

Got an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer and did my HNC in electrical engineering at same time and stuck with it, I saw one of my old teachers a few months back and he looked mightily pissed off when he asked me what I now do for a living! I even offered to buy him a drink ;)
 
I excelled when I went off to college with a 4.0 GPA. That is the only time I ever excelled in school.
 
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