How were you educated?

[nino_savatte]

Can't have been easy. As a kid I wanted stability/predictability etc as many kids seem to want to.

I was only 5 when I was pulled out of my first school and sent to a Liverpool primary. It scared the shite out of me. My first ever experience of racism happened in that L'pool school. I never really settled properly until I went to boarding school, oddly enough.

 

[Aldebaran]

Never saw a normal school's classroom when I was a kid but at the age of 16 I had already a list of provoked mass slaughter among teachers dying of heart attacks and others running away screaming, straight to safety of the madhouse. (You can imagine the bills piling up here.)

salaam

 

[Structaural]

State run hell-hole comp - turned into flats about 10 years ago (Dick Sheppard, SW9). Taught me how to fire a gat, play pat-ball, and how to run like fuck. The teachers bunked off more than the kids.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

But even so, it's the public schoolboys, with their air of cold command and instinct for power, who are promoted as moderators while the rest of us cower in fear of bannings.

Of course Orwell made a similar point about promotions in the Spanish militias.

I went to a good comprehensive, same one as Lewis Hamilton.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

State run hell-hole comp - turned into flats about 10 years ago (Dick Sheppard, SW9).

I used to live about fifty yards away from there. Or maybe a hundred.

 

[Structaural]

Not far enough!

It wasn't a bad school prior to about 1981 - then the end of ILEA, the very capable headmistress left to nurse her dying husband and it completely fell apart. The speed of the decline was quite amazing.

 

[baldrick]

Private school and not on a scholarship either

wasn't particularly fancy though they liked to make a lot of the fact that it was a "christian" school and we took our assemblies in the cathedral. if you didn't get good results for gcse, you weren't allowed to come back in the 6th form the main building was falling down and for the 6 years i was there they never managed to buy any sports fields, though purchase was 'imminent' in the annual newsletter, so we had to travel all over the place for pe

when i left it was 60% south asian pupils, so their christian ethos was working really well for them

 

[Mallard]

when i left it was 60% south asian pupils, so their christian ethos was working really well for them

There's a Catholic Primary near me which has at least 75% of pupils of a Pakistani muslim background as the local Irish population has pretty much dispersed. Apparently, parents want a 'religious education' and the Head has said that he changed some of the entry criteria because under the old criteria 'Jesus wouldn't have got in'.

 

[the button]

if you didn't get good results for gcse, you weren't allowed to come back in the 6th form

That was true of my state comprehensive also.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

the Head has said that he changed some of the entry criteria because under the old criteria 'Jesus wouldn't have got in'.

True of a lot of Christian institutions, that.

 

[Mallard]

True of a lot of Christian institutions, that.

You can't come here Christ as your parents aren't Catholic!

 

[the button]

You can't come here Christ as your parents aren't Catholic!

Yes they were. Otherwise they wouldn't be in heaven. Hah!

 

[Epico]

Don't want those Jewish / Deity half-breeds bringing down our glorious institution!

 

[Mallard]

Yes they were. Otherwise they wouldn't be in heaven. Hah!

No reference from a Priest and proven regular church attendance equals no joy Sonny Jim!

 

[the button]

No reference from a Priest and proven regular church attendance equals no joy Sonny Jim!

If only he'd have given St Peter the keys to the kingdom of heaven while he was still a nipper, instead of waiting until he was in his 30s. That way he could have had a reference from the pope himself, and got into a decent school, instead of hanging around in his Father's house with the teachers of the law, when he should have been on his way home with his mam & dad.

 

[Mallard]

If only he'd have given St Peter the keys to the kingdom of heaven while he was still a nipper, instead of waiting until he was in his 30s. That way he could have had a reference from the pope himself, and got into a decent school, instead of hanging around in his Father's house with the teachers of the law, when he should have been on his way home with his mam & dad.

His parents clearly should have told him this if they wanted a decent local school. Look where non-attendance got him,

 

[the button]

His parents clearly should have told him this if they wanted a decent local school. Look where non-attendance got him,

Quite.

"Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do," indeed. I think you'll find, young Jesus, that they know exactly what they're doing because -- unlike you -- they have a decent education behind them. They even spoke Latin.