You were educated?

[happy daze john in oz]

[QUOTE="Meet you at the Bicycle Shed after School" haha!

Yes I know Vernon, I got that a lot from the girls as well.

[happy daze john in oz]

They weren't real women cappy. Someone was having you on. They were the start of the cross dressing brigade. Everything you thought you saw was false. Cheers John S.

And no doubt many of them ened up with UCL or similar

[happy daze john in oz]

By the time I was sixeen could not get out of school fast enough, taught by nuns, need I say more.........

And is that hwo you ended up in fish net stockings ang high heels? LOL

[gray_marian]

#33, Dearest John, Moi????????......I married young! Let's leave it there.

[leratty]

Interesting thread & some amazing stories of school days. I was so lucky I was born into a family who went out of their way to ensure we three got a great education, whether at the time we appreciated the cost of it or what we were being given is another matter. The teachers at our school which we went to from start to finish were in the main bloody brilliant, yes we got canned, me particularly as I was a idiot as to my behaviour in my early years. One master, our 'house master' recognised something in me made me a house prefect giving me responsibility. From there I became a better person but I owe what I am to those teachers who were just so dedicated & encouraging. From there I left at just 16 a year ahead of my age group with matriculation & a scholarship to London University which I deferred to go to sea. Best decision I ever made though the first part being a deck apprentice was not wise hence went on deck after 18 months, a good decision too. Then on to university, what a eye opener, again great tutors who encouraged, stretched & developed you. Anglo American came in in last year offered six of us jobs which we took. Never looked back, did two more degrees through my career, one in Aus & one in US. I put it all down to parents who went without, strived to give their children the best of education. I reckon if you get left nothing but that by your parents you have done better than most.
Guys like Brian etc I have more admiration for as they were up against it yet got there across burning moats & over much barbed wire placed in front of them. That makes me & my education pale into insignificance. He repaid it by doing what mine did for us to-for his children. The wheel turns full cycle.
Oh three minute cold showers winter & summer at school in Yorkshire delayed puberty by five + years ): so I still look 60 (:

[John Gill]

Kicked out of 2 schools----of fun along the way)

Visited Steyning a few years ago Tony, lovely village, very friendly. Celebrated our youngest daughters marriage nearby at Wiston House, spent the weekend there. Still paying for it!
gilly

[Jim Brady]

No matter what the denomination of the school was the kid either had it or did'nt have it,our street was more or less half and half RC and CoE and no one group did better than the other.I had both RC mates and CoE mates that were thick and could'nt read.I think about four kids passed the eleven plus in our class but none of them went on to grammar school which was run by Christian Brothers (their motto "Give me the boy and I'l give you the man") the reason for not going to further education there was because their parents could not afford the uniform,cricket and rugby gear and the bus fares,plus you had to leave at 15 and start bringing the money in.We did have kids that went like Tom O'Connor,him of TV fame.His dad Paddy O'Connor was a ships boss on the Liverpool docks made the sacrifice I suppose you would call it and paid for T
om's education and through to UNI.Tom was in the class above me.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[happy daze john in oz]

Now that we have discovered where we went and why, another question which some of you may be bale to answer after speaking with grandchildren.
How do the schools of today comapre to those we went to and what are the teachers like now?
The greater majority of junior school teachers here appear to be left wing loonies judging by some comments and actions by them.

[j.sabourn]

John Both my daughter and daughter in law are school teachers. I certainly know (although I was seldom there) how my daughter was brought up and would be hard to imagine that she has been that brainwashed for her attitude to swing to some of the looney fringe ideas on how to bring up children. I do know by some of her remarks years ago that she found it hard going with some of the kids and they were usually from a mixed up background and brought their home problems to school where the teachers were restricted on how to handle. We have ourselves to blame for being conned again as the public always are by a minority of assholes. Cheers John Sabourn

[John Gill]

My three daughters went to the same school locally, and i certainly had problems with one or two 'left wing loonies'. I had a confrontation with one of the teaching staff (female) when i challenged her method of teaching English. I would, as most parents, help with homework and rather than do it for them, point them in the right direction, and inevitably, not being there 24/7 errors were occasionally made. One evening reading through one of the girls' English homework book, I noticed some corrections and comments (written red). I read it through and was concerned that not only had she missed most of the errors her comments were littered with mistakes. I went through it and (hopefully) corrected the teachers corrections,(written green), Parents day arrived and I met the lady in question and challenged her re her approach to teaching my children English. Her defence was that the content of any written English work was more important than spelling or sentence construction. I did point out that perhaps those two factors would effectively remove a lot of meaning from any text. Brick wall-even a chat with the head teacher got me nowhere- virtually told to drag myself into the 20th century's style of teaching.They all managed to leave school with an education, but even now, one of my daughters has problems with spelling and she is in a top job with an international company.