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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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is everyone round here from posh schools except me?
(, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 22:03, 6 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
My school was 'affectionately' known as Newland School for Mums
(, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 22:08, Reply)
I've been to every type of school- from private, grammar to the worst inner-city comprehensive you can imagine
(, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 22:10, Reply)
I racked up 8 schools in my 11 years at school.
Covered the spectrum fairly well.
Best teachers at the local comp - better than the grammar. Worst pupil behaviour at public school.
(, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 22:37, Reply)
that I got to know different types of people. Private school had the best discipline, grammar school had the worst behaviour, the comprehensive had one or two fantastic teachers and mostly jobsworths
(, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 22:48, Reply)
But the worst inter-pupil behaviour. Homosexual rape was a certainty for the new boys, and the worst sort of bullying was endemic.
The grammar school was full of snobbery - staff and pupils. The head master flatly denied that Mick Jagger had attended the school. At that time The Stones were very bad boys indeed according to their press releases. Now I see there is a Mick Jagger Centre for the Performing Arts wing. O tempora, o mores.
(, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 22:58, Reply)
nothing like that at my school, but then I've never boarded, and it was an all girls school. But I can say I've had a huge range of experiences when it comes to types of people, so it worked out in the end
(, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 23:11, Reply)
The public school had a very militaristic ethos, so our uniform was precisely that. Still, I did learn how to strip down small arms and handle explosives. And make my own kilt.
I can't say I met a wide range of personality types. Quirkyness was really encouraged. I lasted a little less than six terms.
(, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 23:18, Reply)
they certainly didn't enforce the skirt length rules when I was there or half the chav girls from the local estate would have been sent home on a daily basis.
Not that the 14 year old me ever complained!
(, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 22:10, Reply)
The less smart ones got themselves knocked up at 16, became heroin addicts, or both.
(, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 22:13, Reply)
but we had no blazers (well, you could have one, but you got beaten up for wearing it) so I assume that all those that did had a posh school
(, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 22:51, Reply)
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