Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Maurice Picarda said:
yes, but did you partake?
How were you educated?
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yes, but did you partake?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
What's a state grammar school? Do they exist?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
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
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
Orang Utan 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.
zenie
>^^<
Normal state mixed secondary school, but we never called them 'comprehensives' I thought they died with the eleven plus? 
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
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
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
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 schemesMaurice Picarda said:
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I voted bog standard for the teaching and hell hole for the pupils_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.
Yeah, it's a completely new building!
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
I'm surprised no one has written 'By wolves' yet...
Badger Kitten
oof
State Primary, Girls High School ( on an assisted place thingy) and then minor public school ( on a scholarship! on a scholarship!)
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
Orang Utan 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.
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
kyser_soze said:
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.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Except in practice I bet the grammar schools get all the good teachers and resources and the comps are left to rotMaurice Picarda said:
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
100% state school, it was actually a convent school when I first joined, I was actually taught by nuns for a few subjects.
AnnaKarpik
Queen of all she surveys
Catholic convent, all-girls, grammar school.
What did I do to deserve that?
What did I do to deserve that?
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
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
http://www.w-h-s.org.uk/
Not sure what "Beacon School" is. That's not something we have in Scotland.
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
danny la rouge said:
One that is regularly set on fire?
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
Ah. I can see why that would attract extra funding.Maurice Picarda said:
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
danny la rouge said:
Not THAT one. Mine was in Essex
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
Sorr-ee; it's all south to me.Minnie_the_Minx said:Not THAT one. Mine was in Essex
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.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
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.
As soon as I went into teaching, I realised how utterly shit the place was at the actual teaching and learning stuff.
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.
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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