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How were you educated?

Where were you educated?


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Maurice Picarda said:
Yes, yes, the clever fing wot you done was spottable without editing to resize the font.

I suspect that being allowed to go home at 3:45 reduces the

yes, but did you partake?
 
I went to a scum comp - some of the teachers were good, but my fellow pupils were mostly nasty cunts - I saw my first stabbing at the age of 13 in the playground there
 
Orang Utan said:
What's a state grammar school? Do they exist?

In counties like Bucks and Kent, the twelve-plus test for verbal reasoning skills is sat by all pupils in their last year of state middle school (or KS2, or year 6, or whatever it is now). The highest-achieving 30% go to state grammar schools, the rest go to state secondary moderns. There used to be technical schools as a further alternative, I believe.

Most, but not all, state grammars are foundation schools and so not directly accountable to the LEA.
 
Orang Utan said:
What's a state grammar school? Do they exist?

Yep just not in Leeds that's all. Btw saw how you voted c'mon your school is in no way worse than the dump I went to which qualifies nicely as 'bog standard' not the worst but not the best.


Altho your old place has had a total facelift now. :)
 
Normal state mixed secondary school, but we never called them 'comprehensives' I thought they died with the eleven plus? :confused:

My school was independent though, whatever that means....it had a good rep when I started (I think) then loads of dark stuff happened a few kids commited suicide, and teachers got done for noncing :(
 
Maurice Picarda said:
In counties like Bucks and Kent, the twelve-plus test for verbal reasoning skills is sat by all pupils in their last year of state middle school (or KS2, or year 6, or whatever it is now). The highest-achieving 30% go to state grammar schools, the rest go to state secondary moderns. There used to be technical schools as a further alternative, I believe.

Most, but not all, state grammars are foundation schools and so not directly accountable to the LEA.
Really? That's fucked up - we had a local grammar school - Leeds Grammar School - I naively assumed that all grammar schools were privately run and that the state wouldn't directly participate in such socially divisive schemes
 
Orang Utan said:
Really? That's fucked up - we had a local grammar school - Leeds Grammar School - I naively assumed that all grammar schools were privately run and that the state wouldn't directly participate in such socially divisive schemes

Yeah I was quite dismayed to find in this day and age kids being subjected to that shit.
 
_angel_ said:
Yep just not in Leeds that's all. Btw saw how you voted c'mon your school is in no way worse than the dump I went to which qualifies nicely as 'bog standard' not the worst but not the best.


Altho your old place has had a total facelift now. :)
I voted bog standard for the teaching and hell hole for the pupils :)
Yeah, it's a completely new building!
 
Orang Utan said:
Really? That's fucked up - we had a local grammar school - Leeds Grammar School - I naively assumed that all grammar schools were privately run and that the state wouldn't directly participate in such socially divisive schemes

It's possible to argue that selection on the basis of ability does more for social mobility than the current system: selection on the basis of parental ability to buy houses in good catchment areas, or to pay for private.
 
kyser_soze said:
I'm surprised no one has written 'By wolves' yet...

I was going to write by wolverines, then considered by nectarines, then thought fuck it, I can't be arsed. I went to a decent comp that was just starting to slide due to the influx of plebs from Warrington and the other industrial towns around.
 
Maurice Picarda said:
It's possible to argue that selection on the basis of ability does more for social mobility than the current system: selection on the basis of parental ability to buy houses in good catchment areas, or to pay for private.


Not this argument again!
 
Maurice Picarda said:
It's possible to argue that selection on the basis of ability does more for social mobility than the current system: selection on the basis of parental ability to buy houses in good catchment areas, or to pay for private.
Except in practice I bet the grammar schools get all the good teachers and resources and the comps are left to rot
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
ah right.

Mine was just Westborough High School. No idea if it was a comp or secondary modern. Sounds like the same think, although I think it was a comp :confused:
Westborough High School, (Local education authority: Kirklees) is a Secondary School in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. It is a Mixed school of Non Denominational religion.

Beacon School Status
Westborough was awarded Beacon School status in September 1999. This means that we received extra funding to encourage the development, sharing and support of good practice. Our initial success in these initial three years resulted in our Beacon status being renewed in 2002.

http://www.w-h-s.org.uk/

Not sure what "Beacon School" is. That's not something we have in Scotland.
 
I went here: www.clsb.org.uk - mainly paid for by music scholarships of various types are proportions, and a small remortage of my parents' house. It was ok; I mainly have positive memories of it, I've maintained a number of really good friendships, the teaching was (on the whole) really good and the musical opportunities availed to me were second to none.
 
Crispy said:
Private school (on a scholarship! on a scholarship!)
The education was good, but everything else was shit.

Ditto. I left at the age of 16 and went to a state grammar school, which was also a bit shit.
 
A very well-thought-of Mixed Grammar school.

As soon as I went into teaching, I realised how utterly shit the place was at the actual teaching and learning stuff.:eek: :mad:
 
The question appeared to be How were you educated? The poll however only asked for the kind of school.

How I was educated seemed to be to have a topic introduced by the teacher. Some page numbers in a text book were indicated and homework was to read memorize and regurgitate for a test the following week.

In Maths the method was to be shown a few simple examples of a type of problem to solve or formula to work with. For homework we were given pages of much more difficult problems to solve.

Each lesson just seemed to be about getting homework set. As the day drew to a close it got more oppressive an idea that you had all this homework. Of course as it was not due in until next week I used to put it off.

And that dear reader is how I came to be here in this damp prison cell with rats nibbling my toes.
 
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