To say I had some fun memories of school isn’t a lie, but do I miss it?
HUmmm no.
Having to rush to get up for school that started, and we are talking about the 80’s here, at 9am was on some days unbearable and wished they would just go away.
Now I do the school run with my own child its like reliving it all again apart from I have no lessons.
Sod school I wanted weekends everyday. Only one can dream.
My son loves school and has even asked to go back there on some days when I’ve have gone to picked him up and I am left feeling “What am I not good enough? Is school improved where kids actually want to be there?”
In my day you couldn’t wait for it to be over and get home to catch the rest of Childrens TV, that was only on 4 channels back then, and then watched Neighbours that was on at 5:35pm everyday, except weekends. Or you’d play out with your friends on the estate.
Please check out my book of my story called The Peabody Years.
Then you had childrens TV come Saturday morning, with Going Live on BBC and Number 73 on ITV.
School back then if you were naughty you would have to sit facing a wall, now my son does this voluntarily himself when he is being defiant as a way of blanking us.
I dreaded school dinners they were disgusting, honestly even the rats would ignore eating that crap, and was a reason why there were no pigeons near the school either. Thank the lord for Packed lunch is all I can say.
Yet now my son has all sorts at school and get a gourmet meal rather than looking like it doesn’t want to be on a plate either.
When I was at school you had kids trying to climb the fences and running out of school including secondary, now they wish to climb back in, god knows why but that is real world now and a far cry from when I went to school.
I remember having them hanging towel machines in the bathroom where any kid could pass germs to one another so easily and a boy called David, bless him set one of them on fire.
I wasn’t sure at the time whether to admire or kill him, as it got us out of class for a bit but of course it happen to be a boy in my class none other and all had to sit on the carpet until someone confessed to it.
This was the same kid who also was rushed to hospital for shoving a rubber up his nose and then one of the girls in class copied ending the same both being rushed hospital to have them removed.
One kid in my year who was doing Design and Technology at the time in Secondary school decided to play around with some super glue and got her finger stuck on one of the desks and Italian class where we of course looked up all of the swear words rather than the actual italian we were being taught, finding the swearing in Italian more entertaining.
This was pre internet and so there were no google, and you bought your clothes in store rather than online, and would take endless trips to C and A in high street Kensington on a Saturday after seeing my nan and grandad who lived in Chelsea, London.
Or I would spend some Saturday’s with my friend Hayley whom I have known all my life and we would play top of the pops, her singing Madonna and Kyle Minogue songs and I would sing Cyndi lauper or five star. Or we’d have toy fights against my brother.
When I see kids going to school in uniform which is the norm for kids in the UK, I don’t miss it at all, and was so glad for when school was over that as soon my time was done in school all my school books and clothes got happily destroyed.
That was the life at school, as soon you got in there the sooner you wanted to go home and finished the school. Of course my mum happened to work at my Secondary school, and pretended she wasn’t my mum and didn’t want anyone to know, so would call her miss just like the other kids until it came to parents evening and of course my mum had to be there.
In the end I would grass up the teachers before they could grass me up or we all took the mickey, that was what school was like then, and glad that I don’t have to live through again.
What were school like when you went? Do you miss it or not?
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Carrie X
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