Ah the joys...
...of GCSE History.

Your coursework - write a project based on a major 20th century conflict that *didn't* happen either between 1914-1918 or 1939-1945.

Cue being taken out of my class - because the rest of the class saw History as an easy way out and was made up of load of lads who honestly couldn't write their own names - but had to fill a third slot in their options evening - this includes a current Premiership Footballplayer (who actually used to sit behind me and is a very nice bloke).

I was taken out because I wrote a degree dissertation level piece on the beginnings of the Northern Ireland "Troubles" and the relationship with post Civil War Ireland c1922.

I think it would also coinside with me being targetted as the only person who might have a chance at raising the passing grade - and because the only activity *in* a GCSE History class that year was when one of the vacant neanderthals in the back row let off a whole box of fireworks.

I got a B.
( HSDriver was probably still at work on, Sat 15 Aug 2009, 2:13, Reply)