Back in School Days

[iBender]

This place looks awesome... http://www.mellowmushroom.com/#/menu

I loved secondary school, I learned that in Singapore, you can have Magic Mushrooms on your Pizza and Cannabis and such and they call it Happy or Magic Pizzas... This was my history teacher, she was cool. Reminded me of Billie Piper actually, but slightly taller and skinnier. School was cool.

My year 8 art teacher at secondary school had a phone call from her friend, and spent the lesson telling us, as one of us, that her friend had just seen a cyclist come off this bike and under the wheels of a big rig 'an 18 wheeler lorry', and I can always remember, that she explained he died by saying
"My friend had just witnessed a man in this accident at ***** *** by the **** *** and his head was completely. . ."
'This was as we did our work.'

I always wondered what happened to that man's head.

How was school for you? What were the teachers like? What were your student body like? & Was you forced to wear a uniform?

I wore a uniform, we had restrictions, for both boys and girls, they cracked down on the sports shoes and no ties a lot, school uniforms here began to be gangland colours, in turf wars and old rivalrys - I jest.

 

[JoeZhang]

I had to wear a uniform and I seemed to have an ok time - that's pretty much all I remember about it. It was over twenty years ago and I've never given it a second thought since I left. I know a lot of my friends seem to be remember all sorts of small details but I think that's a function of thinking about the past too much rather than any of that stuff being interesting.

 

[Holdfast]

On average, I really enjoyed school.

The work was easy, I got on with most people, and generally liked it. Sure, some stuff I hated, like some of the sports we played, and doing stuff like assault courses with manky water obstacles, but overall, it was all good-natured really.

"Character-building", I believe they called it... I won't comment as to what characteristics they actually built up in me.

As for a uniform, yes: blazer and grey trousers, with a predominantly plain white or pale blue shirt with house tie for most days. On days with a chapel service (wednesday and saturdays), grey suits with the same shirt/tie code. You could wear other ties if you were entitled to them (prefects, colours, etc, etc).

We didn't tend to bend the rules all that much: usually more highly-patterned shirts, in other colours, or wearing fancy shoes, things like that. One guy had a great custom-made double-breasted blazer instead of the standard single-breasted one. It taught us to bend the rules, but not break them, which is about the most useful thing any upbringing can teach you!

 

[thestrangequark]

My elementary school had a name like a cheap stripper: Crystal Springs Elementary. A name matched only by the stripperiness of the name of one my friends at that school, Crystal Star. It was a public school, so no uniforms. And as someone who has moved 14 times in 28 years of life it's a wonder I managed to attend that one school from kindergarten all the way through 6th grade. I have very fond memories of that school. Then I went to junior high school, which might as well just be called Nadir of the Human Condition. I hated it and was smart, so I skipped 7th and 8th grades. High school was lame academically and socially, though as the most racially diverse school in the US, and also a school heaving with gang violence (two shootings and a memorable murder involving a man being set on fire and stuffed under the bleachers of the football field during my 4 years there alone), it was at least interesting in that respect.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I liked most of the schools I went to. From 1st to 3rd grade, I wore a kind of uniformy thing, but it was mostly the school telling us generally what kind of shirts and pants to wear, not a uniform as such (at least not for us guys - the girls wore uniforms).

I do miss high school though. My HS is still there, but it's been so heavily remodeled as to be unrecognizable. I liked it better when I was a student. And I have very fond memories of my time in high school, mostly because I was a band geek and that was a lot of fun. (I remember one morning that I'd been at jazz band rehearsal for over an hour, then they called off school because of snow. We just looked at each other, shrugged, and kept playing! )

 

[TerokNor]

Basis school (grade 1 to 4) was a good experience. Middle school (grade 5 to 10) had its up and downs. There were some nice teachers, that really tried to teach us something and there were horrid teachers, who took away all motivation for learning and replaced it with fear. High school (grade 11 to 13) was similiar. In general I do not think I got that much education out of school. It was mostly boring or scary and I know that, if the school system would have been different (like you find it today on some of the reformed schools, but sadly that are few still) a lot more of my potential would have come to the open.

At none of my schools I had to wear uniforms, we usually don´t do that here. You could come to school in the tightest hot pans and bikini top if you felt like it and yeah we had girls who did just that.

TerokNor

 

[RJDiogenes]

I don't remember. I wasn't really paying attention.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I'm having trouble believing that Singapore allows the selling of cannabis and magic mushrooms on pizza. This is the place that at one point banned gum and has caned people for spraying graffiti.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Too bad. It would give new meaning to ordering "one with everything."

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Oh damn, now the joke about the Buddhist who walks up to a hot dog vendor just isn't funny anymore.

 

[M'Sharak]

^ Oh damn, now the joke about the Buddhist who walks up to a hot dog vendor just isn't funny anymore.

You know, the world really won't end if you don't crack a joke in every single thread in which you post. Truth is, you repeat too many of them too frequently (how many times have you done the "one with everything" gag just this year, anyway?) and even the jokes which were actually funny the first time you told them become tedious after so many iterations.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I honestly don't remember ever mentioning that joke before.

 

[KJbushway]

My school body could dress the way the wanted. We had 8 pregnancies. We started out 750 students strong. but only about 610 graduated(largest class that graduated in Georgia( I think, it could have just been our district). The rest either dropped out, or stayed behind.

 

[Scrambo]

I tend to forget school as most of my school days were spent either being bullied or defending those who were being picked on hence the bullying transfered to myself. Im no longer in contact with anyone from my school days save those on facebook but we dont really chat to each other more a "oooh i wonder what she/he is doing now." So in brief: My primary school was great & the 1st half at middle school was fun..i had a different "boyfriend" each week. They werent really what we would term as boyfriends as adults, but i was mostly a loner when we moved half way through middle school to a different area & secondary school was a nightmare as its was just girls and an all girl school is just a polite way to say school of b****es.

 

[KJbushway]

Sry you had a hard time.

 

[thestrangequark]

My school body could dress the way the wanted. We had 8 pregnancies. We started out 750 students strong. but only about 610 graduated(largest class that graduated in Georgia( I think, it could have just been our district). The rest either dropped out, or stayed behind.

Sounds a lot like my high school. I already mentioned the school shootings and the murder. I don't know how many pregnancies there were, as I wasn't keen on gossip, but I can tell you how many out of a senior class of approximately 200 graduated -- about 75. Of those about 25 went on to higher education, with 12 going on to four year universities. My best friend and I were the only two from our class who went out of state for college, she to Stanford and I to NYU.

There was a woman whose job it was to help kids get into college. When I approached her with the list of schools to which I was applying (Columbia, Brown, NYU, Boston U) she said she wasn't really familiar with the application process for those universities and that I ought to go to Western Washington or South Seattle Community College instead. My best friend, who was applying to Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and a few others, said the woman tried to persuade her to go to WW instead too! I got into Brown and NYU without her help, thank you very much!