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» School Assemblies

Dead rock stars
Late-80s and our fantastic deputy head, Mr Vesey, was delivering his assembly. The theme was dead rock stars and he described how the likes of Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, John Bonham et al met their untimely ends.

He was particularly explicit, emphasising in great detail just how grotesque a vomit-asphyxiation death surely is. I believe the underlying message was 'Don't do drugs kids, that shit will fuck you up.'

I think the main problem with this bold approach to teaching issues of personal, social, and health education was that this was Primary School. I was seven. Mind you, to be fair I never did give heroin a go...
(Wed 19th Jun 2013, 19:32, More)