Did You enjoy your School days?

[Friar Tuck]

I went to boarding school form the age of 7 to 15. This was because my dad was in the RAF and was posted abroad a lot, so the forces paid for me and my brothers and sisters to go to them.

I found it intimidating, and very hard to stand up for myself in younger years. and believe or not I was a scrawny little bugger as a child, and as a consequence I was bullied a lot. Since leaving school I vowed that I would never ever be bullied again.

Ok, you don't get physical bullying in the work place but a you do get a lot of mental bullying, and if anyone picks an "argument" with me I tend to jump down their throats and rip their balls out! It's a natural defence, reaction unfortunately.

But being at boarding school has taught me to live with other people, and I am more tolerant of other people's foibles than most.

but would I want to send my kids to boarding school , that's a toughy that I don't have to answer as I have none!

[Yoda]

i was brought up in handsworth - yes they were good, the drugs, the riots, muder ahhhh them were the days :)


yoda (in a very silly mood this morning)

[chazz]

sadistic teachers,all the door handles in my school were round,an the teachers would close the door then give you six of the best with the cain,then tell you to get out and if you were still there after 20 seconds youd get wacked again,problem you couldnt grip the handle as your hands were too swollen :eek:

[GreatBritishRob]

Nope, hated my school days, especially high school.
I left at 15 and never looked back. Never even turned up for my exams (which parents had to pay for). I was bullied at school to Friar but because i was taller than everyone else. Did me a favour in some respects because i vowed i'd never be down trodden or bullied again in my life. The worst thing (apparently) is that i wouldnt let myself be bullied at school and fought back. Ended up in a mess sometimes but what the hell, like i say, it didnt do me any harm just taught me to look after meself.
Actually its not quite that simple is it. I mean i enjoyed being a kid and where i grew up (Newtown Powys), i just hated school. I couldnt wait to get home and get on my push bike or nick tractor inner tubes from the old ATS and paddle up and down the river severn or go camping at the weekends etc. Great times. :D

[xjtriker666]

yea i enjoyed school..apart from gerrin arse tanned a few times,,teachers hated ppl with long hair ,so i was singled out a bit,,,,fukkin grammar school,,,lookin back i should have stayed on but didnt,,,,,,,,,,,

[Dougie]

Hated school (did well tho').I wasn't one of the 'In-crowd',so I got bullied.I'd like to see these feckers now though,I've changed completely from those days. :mad:

[Mistress Maker]

I personally loved school, it was just a run of the mill comprehensive.

Stayed on to take just 1 A level coz I didnt want to leave ,(how sad is that !!)

But Addjunkie had to send his two kiddies to boarding school when his marriage went tits up and he ended up with the kids (she didn,t want them , still won,t have any contact with them , but thats another story!)Because of his work he had to sort something out .Off they went , one hated it the other just adapted. Now that he has me ( the lucky bugger!) they are at home .Boarding school has made them both socielly inept ! they cannot or do not know how to interact with normal people and think that the world owes them a favour and is there to serve them.It has left them ( one in particular) with no social skills and the inability to look after themselves.


Boarding schools may work for some , but having spoken to people who have been to boarding school they all agree they would never ever send their child their even if they were in a position that they could.


Give me a comp any day , yes there is bullying etc but that has always been the case but at least the kid can home at the end of the day and see someone who cares about them at home , boarders don,t have that privilidge.

at the end of the day its down to personal choice where you send them.
some children like school ........some don,t.

[Shifty]

I absolutely hated school. I was another one that got bullied.

Took until half way through the final year for the worm to turn. I turned round one day and smacked the biggest lad in the school right in the nose. I was more surprised than he was and thought "that'sit, I'm dead now"

Funnily enough they all left me alone after that

[blackhack]

Well I'm ashamed to admit it but I was one of the bullies...
Changed my ways when i got to the last year or so at secondery school, but it was too late as I had built a "reputation" by then and it was seen as the leopard cant change his spots.

Looking back I supose it was my own insecurities that made me that way, but even then thats no excuse. nowadays I dont thump anyone (unless they deserve it )

I never see anyone from my school days at all these days, not that I give a toss one way or the other, but if I could go back and change things I would....

[johnr]

i hated my school days, i was unfortunate to be in a year group with the biggest bunch of psychotics and thugs ive ever seen assembled. they made my life hell. actually, they made everybodys life hell, for 5 fucking years they terrorised us, the school, and the local residents. the teachers and especially the wooly minded headmaster were out of their depth totally. i couldnt wait to get out. they dragged the schools reputation down so much that two years after i left, intakes were so low that they shut it and demolished the place. no sign of it now, save a street named after it, good riddance i say. i never went back, and still, 20 odd years later get angry thinking about it. i wouldnt piss on any of that bunch if they were on fire, they were genuinely like a pack of wolves, i remember one of them stabbing another pupil in the eye for a laugh!!! wankers one and all. almost every one of that crowd have been inside since, but all i think is that it wasnt for long enough!

[Mrs Reject]

Boarding school was like being in Borstal, drugs, sex (not me), hanging out with bikers:) but I quite liked it and got on with everyone. I avoided the worst excesses tho', a lot of the girls were into all kinds of sordid things.
Being sent to boarding school at 5 brings out the worst in people and a lot of them were very screwed up.
I have never been bullied at school, I don't know why as I went to a few very rough schools when we were on our travels but it just never happened.

[howee]

well im still at school, and from what i hear off you old lot, itll be the best time of my life
and yeah at the moment it is! :D

[Skooshbag]

I hated school, especially secondary. Looking back now, I wish I was still there, just for the fact I might have applied myself more and came out of with better aspects than what I did. I'm not saying I would want to change the way things are now. 2 kids by the age of 23 and a wonderful missus, couldn't ask for more in that aspect. Just wish I could make something of myself, but thats what LearnDirect is for isn't it?

[Bosun]

didnt mind school
muddled through OK

having the best time of my life now though

[John Hopkins]

Looking back, I suppose I had a reasonable school life, went to school, played truant, stole things from Woolworths, went scrumping, helped people, hit people, got hit, threw stones, all the things kids do, In those days a lot of people had died in the war, there were a lot of bombed buildings to play in, and a lot of abandoned houses to play in. These houses looked as if the owners had been spirited away, wardrobes full of clothes, cupbords with tinned food and plates, draws with personal effects. What we did'nt realize was that the owners had given their lives in that war one way or another, entire families were wiped out...Years later the local councils claimed these same houses for rates due....We still send people out to fight and die for what is essentially a polititians beliefs and lose interest in them when they come home.. But MY life has been great, I wouldn't change any of it. except the taxes. Oh and my death... :D John

[Urban Terrorist]

Don't know, never bothered going :rolleyes:

Too busy getting stoned, taking acid and working on tanks and armoured cars in st.albans to bother with school!!

Didn't do me no harm, on ****loads of money now, and people that did so well at school are now losers, smackheads or dead :D :D

[Nik]

I went to boarding school too because me parents lived in the Middle East when I was younger and school finishes out there when you're 11 so the company paid for me to go in England.

Did I enjoy it? No, not really ... it was just something you had to put up with until the holidays. At the first one (went to three as the fees were feckin' extravagant and the company kept moving me to cheaper ones) when I was eleven to twelve it was okay, at the second one (twelve to thirteen) I got the crap kicked out of me on a regular basis by the older boys (as did everyone in the first year - it was an equal opportunities kicking scheme), but the third one was good (in that I didn't get me 'ead kicked in at all). Came away from it with a good education that I've conclusively wasted ever since. :)

Still wouldn't want to have to go through it again though. ;)

[addjunkie]

I went to boarding school too because me parents lived in the Middle East when I was younger and school finishes out there when you're 11 so the company paid for me to go in England.


Still wouldn't want to have to go through it again though. ;)


ahhhhhhhh thought so when i met ya at the fram yard..........it shows, but not in a bad way of course!

what do they make of ya hair dos and career path at reunions!

[Nik]

ahhhhhhhh thought so when i met ya at the fram yard..........it shows, but not in a bad way of course!

what do they make of ya hair dos and career path at reunions!

Naa, that's just 'cos I was flung up proper, me ... ;)

Dunno, never been to one - got asked to go back and speak to a class about journalism once. Never again! :eek:

[Miss Demeanour]

For anyone who ever told me 'school days are the best days of your life', they lied. Not going to go on about it.

However my years between the ages of 11 and 23 are not something I'd ever want to repeat anyway. Wouldn't want to be young again, it was hell. The past is exactly where it should be.

I'm pleased to say that I'm happiest and most sorted now than I ever have been, and it's only going to get better.

How cool is that?

[Violetmay]

I nicked this bit from FT.and added the red bits..

I went to a pretty rough comprehensive and was the geeky kid that actually liked school... and for one that wasn't very blessed with a good brain, found my feet and did quite well in the end, and inspite of bullies stayed and did a levels, and started an anti-bullying campaign to stop other kids being bullied.
I found it intimidating, and very hard to stand up for myself in younger years. and believe or not I was a scrawny little ginger headed midget as a child, and as a consequence I was bullied a lot. Since leaving school I vowed that I would never ever be bullied again.

Ok, you don't get physical bullying in the work place but a you do get a lot of mental bullying, and if anyone picks an "argument" with me I tend to jump down their throats and rip their balls out! It's a natural defence, reaction unfortunately. I had a boss in one job who used to be the school bully and when I wouldn't join her gang, she turned nasty. I dealt with her by seeking out her other victims and there were more victims than she had co bullies. our stumbling block was the directors secretary was in her gang to.. but my boss was queen bee. So we all put a formal complaint in against them directly to the director when he asked why we hadn't gone through his p.a who was also personell.. we told him. When the company restructured they got the sack.

I hate bullying of any kind verbal, mental, I know bullies are also victims of something themselves...but the girl that bullied me at school was an evil bitch whose life mission it was to pick a fight with me alone then turn up with all her friends, so that when I was getting the better of her in a fight they would finish me off. It is not a normal rite of passage a kid has to go through at school... and when I started the anti-bullying scheme when I got to be headprefect it stopped at least in my time there. I will now take on a bully male or female head to head, whether it's me they try it on or someone else. It is not acceptable.

[Womble_Lancs]

My primary school was ace. It was a little village CofE school, but they didn't seem to mind that I didn't believe in god. There were never more than 20 kids in a class and it was like a big family, really.

I went to a fairy rough high school, which had an intake of 300 kids in my year (big culture shock!). I had three runs-in with bullies in high school, the first being in my first month, when a fifth year lad started pushing me around, so I punched him in the face, much to the amusement of his mates, who then turned on him for picking on a 1st year girl. Another was in the 2nd year when a girl in my class used to come up and punch me in the arm for no apparent reason. I put up with it for a few weeks, but then I lost my rag, booted her in the kneecap and she went down like a ton of bricks, and never came near me again. The last was in the 5th year when one of the lads wound me up, so I told him if he did it again I'd hit him, so he said "come on then, come on, OW FUCK!". Fool. He had a lovely shiner for a week :D

Despite all that, I actually enjoyed high school, and only wagged it when I was in the fifth year, when all the teachers were on strike and I couldn't be arsed going in to find out which lessons had been cancelled.

I went to a great sixth form college and then to Hull Uni, which I hated with a passion. I quit after 3 months, most of which I'd spent going to bike rallies anyway. I'm now 5/6ths of the way through an Open University BSc and can't wait to finish it, cos I'm tired of it all now.

Oh yeah, but I have a Diploma in IT from the OU, and a PhD in Arse-Elbow Differentiation from the UBS (http://www.cynicalbastards.com/ubs/)

[Juke]

Hated school.......every frigging day of it! :mad:
Spent most of the time outside the haeds office awaiting another bollcking for fighting, swearing, spitting, damaging school property (tables mostly)........the list goes on but I wont bore ya with it.
In the end, after earning the record for being the most caned girl in the school at one point, I was expelled 4 months before the end of term. Fooled me Dad for a few weeks coz I was too scared to tell him, but the school did a home visit, and then I was really in **** street!...........the good ol' days.

But, I dint turn out too bad.
Own house, own business, no debts and a pretty good life.
Warning to Howee............... 'Do as I say, not as I do!'................ :D

[Gnome]

I actually really enjoyed school.
Never bullied - only piss-taking between mates, which we all did.
Never got in a fight. I didn't go looking for any, and never found any.
Stayed on to do A-levels at the same school, and that was definately the best years of my school days.
Sitting round doing sod all for half the time, checking out the nice girlies as they trotted past, and I had a bike by then as well, and could toddle in and out whenever I wanted, and it earned me muchos resptico credits with my piers...

Ahhh, those were the days. No money worries, living free 'n' easy.
I always wish I could go back.
One regret has been not keeping in touch with old friends. Only see one now, on a regular basis, because we had bikes to keep us together.
Most folks went to Uni, where as I hopped straight into an apprenticeship (Glad I did as well).

Friendsreunited doesn't really turn up alot either, as most haven't even joined!

[Freak]

Loved school but hated homework. I'd have happily done another hour at school rather then take schoolwork home as my time was my time as far as I was concerned.
I had my fair share of a hard times in the early years too but that was just part of growing up and finding your own feet as far as I'm concerned. Luckily I also outgrew all of the intimidaters and battered them one by one in years 3 and 4, (sometimes twice just to make sure) but always one on one and never in front of a crowd. It really fucked a couple of them up which tought me to be patient when seeking revenge.
Don't get mad... get even ;)

[baldyshinehead]

No i didnt

[brandersnatch]

No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[krammer]

when i was at schhol it was a big deal if you 'fingered' a girl..................(now i'm 47 that sounds a bit dodgy) :o

[Juke]

Krammer, sometimes you are a disgusting little man............ :rolleyes:

[Violetmay]

only sometimes.;)

[contail]

i enjoyed school. even went on my zr50 custom when i was in 6th form. my mates were realy weird. the one mate used to walk round saying "penis" quite loud. he was a bad influence on me :confused: :confused:

[churchill]

just read all the posts for the full thread (take note it helps when adding next line ).and it is bloody depressing the number of people who had ****e school years but what comes through is that its where you are now that matters .
it took me years to learn some of lifes simplest lessons .. i think the most valued thing i ever learnt is balance ..ying and yang to you old hippys ..vm..
ie give out sh*t get sh*t back ..give out a mellow vibe and most people will respond in kind ect ect
lol just remembered my job is testing weighbridges :) could that be incremental to my views on life :eek:
ok someone shoot the talking dog its talking bollocks again

[bunbag]

fekin hated skool got the twase just about every day and a bit o thin dowling wood fir a cane across the hand more often than not fi the woodwork or tech drawing so called teacher :mad:

[firebike]

i hated my school days but now i wish i could go back as im not the smartist of people but hey s**t happens

[Taff]

Didn't like 'em or hate 'em, they were just there.
Was never part of the in-crowd.
Went thru four comprehensive schools, with two brothers, so that didn't help.
When i was at comp, you were either a 'punk', or a 'souley'.
I was one of the few 'heavy rockers'.
Was more interested in me skateboards, stripping 'em, building 'em up, making bits, decks and stuff, and used to paint 'em up summat fkin wicked.
So no change there, except it's bikes now.
Me big brother was a rum 'un, causing trouble an stuff, but we all looked the same and had the same different school badge from our original place in Wales, and all talked in the same funny welsh accent.
So more than once someone would strut up, "come on then Taff (we all got called that...), come on..."
Hat to scrap out me brother's indescretions with them thinking i was him. :(
Was a bit swotty, and destined for great things, "Karl will be whatever Karl wants to be".
Well, Karl's now exactly what Karl wanted to be thanks.

:D :D

[Friar Tuck]

It's sad to see quite a few of us were bullied at school.

So why do we let it happen at schools now? I have no kids (out of choice, maybe because I don't/didn't want them to suffer school like me?) so I have no need of contact with the local comp.

It's also a pity that children don't seem to be able to talk to their parents. I couldn't hence five years of hell! My school has a quite a big site on Friends Reunited (Gosfield School for Boys!). I kept getting badgered to go for a reunion, and I kept replying No! Eventually I got an invite from a bloke who was my friend at the school, but his elder brother was one of the main protagonists in my bullying. He asked me why I wouldn't go, so I bluntly told him that if I ever saw his brother I would deck him, and probably kill him!

Strange! I haven't heard from any "school chums" since! Suites me!

[Bag Lady]

I liked the lessons.....but hated "school". I was a "loner" that did not fit in with the crowd, subsequently I got badly bullied in the 3rd year. Did not help that all the girls had "developed" and I still had a 28" chest......still only had a 30" chest when I left school at 16....so got teased all the time. If they could see them now!!!! :D Would poke their eyes out :p

At the start of the 4th year the girl that made my life a misery with her meanness and spite got killed in a car crash. They had a collection for flowers for her funeral. I contributed all my pocket money because I was so glad she was dead....school was much better after that. I liked learning and liked homework - (except maths....thought it was me but found out later when I did my HNC that I just had a bad teacher...the HNC maths was sooooo easy!!!)

[BigSlim]

It's sad to see quite a few of us were bullied at school.

So why do we let it happen at schools now? I have no kids (out of choice, maybe because I don't/didn't want them to suffer school like me?) so I have no need of contact with the local comp.


i was bullied at school at young age because of my weight, so i raise my son not take the crap from others, dont get me wrong he's a lovely kid and only uses his fists as last resort, but because he so placid and tall he tends to go from being accused of being the bully to being bullied and back again!
I never did understand life as a child, still don't!