I went to Mutant High...
Penlan Boys Comprehensive School. A few years after I left it made the news for being the most under-achieved school in Wales....who said they couldn't win anything? The headmaster was promptly removed, and the building converted to a Welsh speaking learning province for South Wales.

Personally, I didn't blame it on the headmaster myself, as some of the kids who went there were one lycra suit short of an Xmen convention. A few of them stand out (see me prev entry for one nutter), but here's a few more.....

Stoney - a kid who I personally think shouldn't have been in there, and should have been in a "special school". Seriously, this kid was about 5 foot high and 5 foot wide and could only communicate in an odd high-pitched voice. He'd sit in the lunch area staring at others eating their dinner while foaming at the mouth, so they'd do stuff like lick the top of the afters and give it to him, where he'd munch it down happily. Obviously a target for bullying, he'd scream away from trouble and confide with quite possibly the worst teacher (ie funniest teacher in the school) his woes, who would tell us all the gossip about it later on. This teacher didn't help him either; Stoney turned up one day saying that he'd been on a picnic during the previous weekend, and that they camcorded it. What does teach do? He convinces Stoney to bring it in. The rumours got around, and a shedload of us managed to bunk off whatever lesson it was (including 3 other teachers) and we all cram into his classroom, popcorn in hand. About 50 of us managed to watch it, and fecking class it was too. Turns out his whole family resemble him, including what we thought was a twin brother but was actually 5 years younger than him. We nicknamed them "Tweedledum and Tweedledumber".

Egghead - a good laugh mate actually, but weird in the sense that he used to eat Vics Vapour Rub in class. Fucking oddbob.

Lee D. - true story this. Odd looking 6 foot fat person, who always seemed a bit strange. Obvious bullying target for 5 years as he looked like a cross between "Stoppit" (from "Stoppit and Tidyup" fame) and the "Banana Bunch" perm. A few years ago (about 7 years after I left the school) I'm reading the News Of the World, bored shitless one sunday morning. Get to the Sunday magazine, open it up and there's a two page article - "From Lee to Lisa". Turns out this oddbob was actually a girl all along and spent 5 years in an all-male school "by accident". The docs at birth had confused Lisa's baby bits and she'd been brought up as a boy up until the age of twenty-something. Madness.

Soz for teh length, but there'll be more to come :)
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Mon 22 Jan 2007, 8:37, Reply)