i was a bit of a wet blanket as a kid
wasn't allowed to socialise much (pushy overprotective but well meanin 'rents) so i wasn't too good at dealing with bullies etc. as a result i moved schools a few times. there was a short period where i was trialling several schools. one of these was a Steiner school. (google it)
i was a bright kid, and actually quite liked learning.
on the first day, we basically sat there drawing. one kid was furiously suckin down wax crayons, i bet he left the most interesting skids on the pan! anyways. one other kid was hellbent on completing a thousanmd high-speed, screaming laps of the room. a third kid was a bit.. rapey? kept trying to hug everyone, then getting too intense, being pulled off by his minder, then repeat.
a bit odd, but they had GREAT art materials and i was in hog heaven for a while

day two- went to beach. crayon-munching kid moves on to pebbles. high-speed lap kid seems fazed by open space, keeps starting to run, then realising he's left the group and swooping back in making aeroplane noises.
rapey kid is bothering people's dogs.

day three: rainy day. high-speed kid knocks over crayon kid's pencilcase, kid flips the fuck out, rapey kid gets involved. still no sign of any kind of lesson.

day 4: day one again. rapey kid seems hellbent on winning young molester of the year award. still not so much as a sniff of a sum or science question.

day 5: visit the local country park. rapey kid seems to be heavily medicated, and has transmogrified into vacant creepy smile boy. crayon kid is eating things off floor. high speeed kid is on some kind of leash as we're near lakes.


that very weekend, i told my parents in no uncertain terms that i wanted a normal school with normal kids and to actually learn something.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Sat 31 Jan 2009, 17:08, 1 reply)

I went to a school like that
but it wasn't a special school, just special kids.
Jabba-the-hut Teacher just sat in the corner, we only had lessons when she never turned up.
Left there pretty quick - they couldn't understand why.

Said kids soon went to my senior school. Lovely.
(FunOnABun Smears lard on you!, Wed 4 Feb 2009, 14:15, closed)