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Morning All. :D
Grammar School boy I was. We moved house (towns) so they transferred me to another Grammar-School in Basildon.
But they merged us with the next-door comprehensive and the place went to pieces.
Bunked off most days. Failed all my exams. Parents not happy. Wake up call..
Stayed an extra year and came out with 6 O'level passes and 4 CSE's (2 at grade 1).
I did 2 years of an apprenticeship in GPO telephones and then quit to join IBM. It was the making of me. :)
Have a great day. :D
 
I had that sort of experience too. We tended to move house a lot when I was a child because my father didn't like sticking at a job for any length of time, but comprehensivisation followed me around the country and my secondary education was always at places that had just been reorganised. It was chaos. I'm not saying that selective education is necessarily any better than comprehensives, but the teachers seemed to be demoralised and overwhelmed and the unruly children seemed to delight in tipping them over the edge. This being the 1970s, there was still a culture of lunchtime drinking among some of the teaching staff as well. Having said that, in those days teachers' holidays really were holidays, and they lived in houses which nowadays are changing hands for about three quarters of a million pounds and would be far beyond the reach of most teachers today. So they didn't have it too bad.
 
Brown said:
I had that sort of experience too. We tended to move house a lot when I was a child because my father didn't like sticking at a job for any length of time, but comprehensivisation followed me around the country and my secondary education was always at places that had just been reorganised. It was chaos. I'm not saying that selective education is necessarily any better than comprehensives, but the teachers seemed to be demoralised and overwhelmed and the unruly children seemed to delight in tipping them over the edge. This being the 1970s, there was still a culture of lunchtime drinking among some of the teaching staff as well. Having said that, in those days teachers' holidays really were holidays, and they lived in houses which nowadays are changing hands for about three quarters of a million pounds and would be far beyond the reach of most teachers today. So they didn't have it too bad.
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Yes, and it was at the height of the "Skin-'ead" Vs. "Hairies" war and school was just totally unappealing. The Comprehensive lot were just awful. I remember trying to listen to an overwhelmed Physics teacher and a flaming paper aeroplane sailing to the front of the class. I gave up at that point.
 
My Old Landy said:
It didn't hold me back though, I just pushed back harder. I gained the dizzy heights of lead engineer and a member of the IET :D
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Yes, I often feel like I've succeeded in spite of my education rather than because of it. I know a lot of people say that contemporary education is too assessment oriented and doesn't give kids a chance to be kids, but the culture of low expectations in schools in the 1970s nearly succeeded in killing off my ascent into the middle classes. At least there's some expectation that they'll actually teach the kids something nowadays.
 
All this talk of being taughted learned edjumacated you know what I mean that stuff which is supposed to happen at skool. will set Stan off you nose.
To be honest sometimes I feel like some of the kids of today need to be put to work at 13, then asked at 15/16 if they want to get an education proper like;). Some of them come across as "the world owes me" and that sure as hell dont go down well with me.

I was not the best at school, but did enjoy some subjects. Which really can be down to the teacher. I can say I learnt enough at school to get me a decent level of education, but being in the outside world so makes you realise what you really want and to achieve that will take work. Its at that point you really start learning:).

J
 
Afternoon folks:).

Not much happening today. M working on the shopping list for big town tomorrow. I am working on a list of parts (it keeps getting longer) for the small winter car, for when it gets into the garage for its yearly looking at. Got to put discs on the list this year. The biggest issue is getting the stuff and not leaving it stranded for something little forgotten;). So I will probably end up with some leftovers and treat it to bits that maybe not needed;). PPPPPP as they say:D.

Sometimes I miss the availability living in the UK gives;)................ But i soon get over it:D.

J
 
When I was a nippa me family moved to a new house in an East Durham mining area. In one of the post-war new towns, which was only half built and still with enormous acreages of farm land. Our new primary skool was surrounded by farmland and the classroom overlooked a hill in the near distance which we learned from the teacher, was called Foolish Hill. Teech used to threaten to send thick kids out to stand on the hill. That was sixty years ago, all the farmland has now long gone and posh houses are built there. My kid bro moved house this week, he gave me his new address. I looked on the map, and there it was, on Foolish Hill :D:D:D. I messaged him to congratulate him for having finally made it there :D:D:D.
 
Wimblowdriver said:
When I was a nippa me family moved to a new house in an East Durham mining area. In one of the post-war new towns, which was only half built and still with enormous acreages of farm land. Our new primary skool was surrounded by farmland and the classroom overlooked a hill in the near distance which we learned from the teacher, was called Foolish Hill. Teech used to threaten to send thick kids out to stand on the hill. That was sixty years ago, all the farmland has now long gone and posh houses are built there. My kid bro moved house this week, he gave me his new address. I looked on the map, and there it was, on Foolish Hill :D:D:D. I messaged him to congratulate him for having finally made it there :D:D:D.
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Superb! I would have been sent there during class :rolleyes:
 
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