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What kind of school did you go to?

What kind of school did you go to?

  • Comprehensive

    Votes: 102 59.0%

  • Grammar

    Votes: 29 16.8%

  • Private

    Votes: 27 15.6%

  • Other

    Votes: 15 8.7%
  • Total voters
    173
aurora green said:
:) Me too!
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And me, really nasty comp full of car thieves, glue sniffers and far too much gold jewellery. I was way too sensitive to be sent to that school. :(
 
sparklefish said:
...I was way too sensitive to be sent to that school. :(
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Same here. Thats why I got into bunking off. It was just too nerve-wracking being there.
I bloody hated every last day of school. Left the very first day I was allowed.
 
Local comp. Nice one though. All my schools from start to end were bunched together in the same road. Helped with the transition I think. My school started to go downhill four or five years after I left. :( Now I have teachers as mates.... how old am I? :eek:
 
Comphrensive that thought it was a grammer school .Started out teachers were old blokes in gowns who carried canes and the headmaster told tales of beating a boy unconcious reveing him with a glass of water and beating him some more :eek: . Then got new lot of teachers who tried to be more humane
in approach. Neither was right/wrong but was strange going from one lesson
being taught by someone out of a jennings book . To grange hill style teacher and back again :) .
 
State primary, then private school for five years up to 'O' level (paid for by Mrs Thatcher under the assisted places scheme), then grammar school for 'A' levels. Hated both of them, but got a bloody good education, academically, at the private school.
 
I dunno what kind of school I went to, all the kids there were aged 13 to 18 at high school :confused:

was a strange school. had a shit load of posh kids and a shit load of poor kids as it took in all the kids for about 35 miles around.
 
chio said:
So let me get this straight, a normal high school run by the county council is "comprehensive"?

:confused:
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Some state schools are 'selective', they only take people with good Y6 sats. There's a few in South Yorkshire, but I don't think they call them grammar schools anymore.
 
Catholic Comprehensive and catholic primary.

School closed my mind and set me up with an unconscious urge to "dumb myself down" so I could fit in with my peers :confused:

I also agree with aurora green that school was just too nerve wracking and taking the risk of playing truant seemed easier, the risk was a good hiding off my Dad if I was ever caught. Thankfully I wasnt as I only truanted in my last school year as I had a sister in the year above who I didnt trust to snitch on me ot blackmail me with threats of snitching.

Impludo
 
private school mostly. went to a state middle school when my family moved when i was 11, but i was bored to the point of messing around in class, so private school again the next academic year.
 
I didn't make it a public poll because I didn't realise people would want to see. My bad I guess.

Excuse my idiot comp brain but what exactly is the difference between a private and a public school? I always thought "public" school was a poor label because it was only open to the public if your parents could afford it.
 
state comp.

was alright, glad i dind't go to the local grammar school.

me and school were pretty cool on each other. i didn't get in their way and they didn't try and interfere in my education.
 
stavros said:
Excuse my idiot comp brain but what exactly is the difference between a private and a public school?
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not much. like others have said - all public schools are private schools, but not all private schools are public schools.
 
Couple of years at a private for my primary education, and then onto a top-five-in-the-country non-fee paying grammar.
 
madamv said:
Local comp. Nice one though. All my schools from start to end were bunched together in the same road. Helped with the transition I think. My school started to go downhill four or five years after I left. :( Now I have teachers as mates.... how old am I? :eek:
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did they get bunched together after they started going downhill? obviously a bad idea to put them all on the same road, must have caused some serious subsidence ;)

I went to a school for welsh nationalists. there were three streams, two welsh, one english- the english stream also being the class for kids with physical and mental disabilities :rolleyes: I changed schools to do my GCSEs in english, only I failed science because I didn't know the english names for a 'twmpath' or strangely a 'bynsun byrnurh' :mad:
 
C of e primary, then a Sec Mod full of vicious, nasty losers (and that was just the teachers) The local County council then redrew the educational boundaries and people from my village got sent to a reletively progressive(by the standard of the times) sec mod, where the teachers were reasonably recognisable human beings and bullying and general nastiness were rare. I spent my time pissing about and emerged with nothing but went back to education in later life as a mature student, first to FE college, later Uni.
 
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