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Pick one thing that your learned at schook That you still use today?
Mine? Hands down... As i was bring given my 5th week straight of detention for smoking (i never smoked but my mates did so i was liberally tarred with the same brush), i said.. "but sir.. It's not fair"... He replied "lifes not fair boy. Get used to it"
What's yours?
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"Pick one thing that your learned at schook That you still use today?
Mine? Hands down... As i was bring given my 5th week straight of detention for smoking (i never smoked but my mates did so i was liberally tarred with the same brush), i said.. "but sir.. It's not fair"... He replied "lifes not fair boy. Get used to it"
What's yours?
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Obviously spell checking wasn't one of them |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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How to cram for a period of time to pass standardised tests with knowledge that will be mostly pointless but hey, you'll get into a good Uni because that's all schools seem to peddle as far as your future is concerned. |
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By *assy69Man
over a year ago
West Sussex and Wales |
"Pick one thing that your learned at schook That you still use today?
Mine? Hands down... As i was bring given my 5th week straight of detention for smoking (i never smoked but my mates did so i was liberally tarred with the same brush), i said.. "but sir.. It's not fair"... He replied "lifes not fair boy. Get used to it"
What's yours?
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Not a school thing……. But the only advice my father ever really gave me was “trust no one” ……. I still find it hard to trust, even now  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"How to make paper aeroplanes
We did paper bangers. Really pissed off the teachers  "
I should have tried so much harder at school, I've failed tragically at this life stuff |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Thst I'm a crack shot with an elastic band and a little piece of folded paper!!"
Didn't even need the paper. Just sneak up behind someone, pull the rubber band back and release it just behind their thigh |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"How to make paper aeroplanes
We did paper bangers. Really pissed off the teachers
I should have tried so much harder at school, I've failed tragically at this life stuff "
Don't worry, you didn't miss out on much |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Ok, a serious thing I did learn was the importance of interpretation and context. It forces you dig deeper beyond the surface level of most topics in order to gain a broader understanding of a subject and people's viewpoints. |
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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago
Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton, |
Poaching.A couple of teachers would sign Me in as present if I went poaching for them.Trout,Pheasant etc in season, Rabbits and Woodpigeon year round.
I learnt not to believe a word the other teachers said.Learnt everything else from parents,grandparents,my own efforts and going through college. |
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My school education was a springboard for most things intellectually. Not that I do use most of the things, but I could have done in different circumstances.
I was given one enrichment class which stands out though, as it was my introduction to critical thinking and source analysis. |
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"That I hated school from the 2nd year of Senior school. Funny enough I had a dream ( or nightmare) last night that I was back at school and trying to bunk the last two days of term"
Did you get the cane?  |
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By *ugby 123Couple
over a year ago
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"That I hated school from the 2nd year of Senior school. Funny enough I had a dream ( or nightmare) last night that I was back at school and trying to bunk the last two days of term
Did you get the cane? "
Not in my dream no but in real life I did once....it wasn't my favourite thing ( in that setting ) so I made sure I didn't get it again 
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I learned that my brain works differently from most other people's.
This was a time when things like autism/apergers really weren't widely known about.
I also learned that sometimes someone has to stand up to the bullies, whatever the cost, expecially when you're not the person being bullied but they're too scared to say anything. |
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By *xydadbodMan
over a year ago
Milton keynes |
1. To smell your food first before you eat it.
2. Corporal punishment is probably the main reason I'm into BDSM today 
3. Always look around of your surroundings before you try and look at your friend's test paper lol |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
I can't think of anything useful.
My mum taught us all to read and write before we started school, and the basics of cooking.
My dad taught me how to mend a plug and how to dig over a garden properly.
I did have a lesson on ironing a shirt properly that I've always used since.
Actually, I think I've forgotten as it's been years since I've ironed anything 
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
"I learned quite a lot. I enjoyed school. I know it's cool to pretend we were all rebels, but I wasn't "
I was far from a rebel at school. I was the quiet swot whose main friends were the popular girls, but talked to everyone.
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Academically: you may not beleive it but pythagoras' theorem. Used to set out grids across sites, yeah we have GPS and surveyors but guess what comes out when there's no signal or someone forgot to charge the damn thing? Tape measures and maths. Often it was quicker too and was usually pretty accurate depending on the topography of the site.
Socially: most people are depressingly thick. |
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Back in the 80's it was learning to sit strategically opposite the girls who wore stockings and suspenders, not tights, under their uniform and sat cross legged in class.
My love for stockings was formed as a horny teenager and never left.
Probably frowned upon now, but sure the girls knew they were giving off cheeky flashes of thigh.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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School taught me that kids can be monsters and most of them don't tend to see the problem with their behaviour, even as the years pass by and they BlOSsOm nto adulthood.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Give the illusion of not giving a fuck about anything and people will leave you alone.To be fair it was Brixton in the 70s.
There's a school survivors group on Facebook which started a bit tongue in cheek but it seems some people were genuinely scarred by Tulse Hill Comprehensive |
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"That I hated school from the 2nd year of Senior school. Funny enough I had a dream ( or nightmare) last night that I was back at school and trying to bunk the last two days of term
Did you get the cane?
Not in my dream no but in real life I did once....it wasn't my favourite thing ( in that setting ) so I made sure I didn't get it again
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On the back of the hands or the backside? And out of interest... In private or in fromt of everyone? |
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I learned that if you sneak into the new gym to look at it and the workmen that Miss McMurray will cop you and tell you to clean it and that I would refuse to clean it and that she was quite angry that I wouldn't clean it and spoke to my father who said ....... she's not cleaning the gym. Good ole dad.
I also refused to shower in the communal showers and my father's line for me to say to Ms McMurray was 'I'll follow you through!' ,,,,,,
Which I did and she was cross that i'd said i'll follow her through but she never told me to take down my towel and wash with the other girls again ...
God I loved my dad. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The hidden curriculum
come off it Pickle no child knows about the hidden curriculum until they have been well and truly fucked by life "
Just a Sociology joke. |
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"The hidden curriculum
come off it Pickle no child knows about the hidden curriculum until they have been well and truly fucked by life
Just a Sociology joke. "
Ah ..... Humour ....... Arf !
( name the person I stole that from ) |
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"They will expell you if they find you d*unk, asleep and unresponsive behind the common room to the point they have to phone the ambulance "
They'll suspend you if you defend yourself, but won't expel the kid who was smoking substances when he broke out of the woodwork classroom and brandished tools at the little kids.
Also, wrongdoing is your fault, because you're a girl. Says so in the Bible innit. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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That praise from grown men you have a crush on sets a teenage heart aflame, and sets you up for a lifetime chasing the high of that one amazing poem you wrote that knocked the teacher for six
And that schools really are fucking awful places, but can you believe it they have gotten worse. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I learnt a healthy disrespect for authority. 
In other words, I had a hard time at school.
I passed the 11 plus, went to an all boys grammar school that mostly focused on academia, but the teachers were twats, my neurodiversity issues went unspotted, and I spent most of my time in trouble; collecting detentions, canings and suspensions like most kids collect stamps.
I had the high IQ needed to succeed, but most of my skills were creative and innovative, and my behavioural track record meant I didn't get to choose the options I wanted to choose - so they tried to shoehorn me into subjects I didn't want and I hated them for it.
I was eventually kicked out just before my O-levels (for vandalism), but allowed back in to take them, passed a few, and then went off to Art college.
I don't think I learned much of any use, even my grammar and punctuation skills were self-taught after I left.
When I look back at the behaviour of some of the staff towards me, I seriously think they owe me.  |
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By *otSoPoshWoman
over a year ago
In a ball gown because that's how we roll in N. Devon |
"I make a better door than window
Be a door with those stockings on and I’d open you anyday 
Well fuck. That's the best line I've had in a long time 
Yus!!! I still got it!"
You'll definitely get it |
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"I make a better door than window
Be a door with those stockings on and I’d open you anyday
Well fuck. That's the best line I've had in a long time
Yus!!! I still got it!
You'll definitely get it "
I’d slam either door or windows |
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"Repetition leads to reliability
Repetition leads to reliability
Repetition leads to reliability
Repetition leads to reliability
Circumference is Pi X Diameter
Area is Pi r squared
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Always handy when calculating the girth of an object |
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"That praise from grown men you have a crush on sets a teenage heart aflame, and sets you up for a lifetime chasing the high of that one amazing poem you wrote that knocked the teacher for six
And that schools really are fucking awful places, but can you believe it they have gotten worse. "
That reminds me. I also learned from primary school that publishers always do you dirty. (My report of my class trip to Sydney was published in the school newsletter. They left out the best line. It was thirty years ago and I'll never forget it  ) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"That praise from grown men you have a crush on sets a teenage heart aflame, and sets you up for a lifetime chasing the high of that one amazing poem you wrote that knocked the teacher for six
And that schools really are fucking awful places, but can you believe it they have gotten worse.
That reminds me. I also learned from primary school that publishers always do you dirty. (My report of my class trip to Sydney was published in the school newsletter. They left out the best line. It was thirty years ago and I'll never forget it )"
they kept that line for themselves |
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Many of us owe a lot to schools and the teachers. Not all of them are great but most do the best they can under quite frankly impossible circumstances. The lack of respect by some for the profession is quite astonishing and no wonder some kids behave the way the do at school. But it is also nice to see positive comments too as imo it's one of the most difficult jobs to do these days. What they have to put up with, the problems the kids have, the behaviour and lack of support from parents, the endless changes to curriculum, paperwork and standards. They work much more than anyone knows and I know lots of them who burn the midnight candle. The vast majority of teachers care and in some cases more than the parents themselves and do their very best in very difficult circumstances. I am certainly grateful for lots of things including increasing my hunger for further learning and thevlove for certain subjects. I appreciate that everyone's experience is different though. I couldn't do their job and those who could perhaps should apply or at least teach their kids at home as of course some do. |
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"I learned that learning things is good… facts, helpful shit. But actually learning how to be a good person by making friends and having empathy to others is much much more important  "
Even more important now with changes in how people interact, working from home and that facts are always at the end of a keyboard |
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"I learned that learning things is good… facts, helpful shit. But actually learning how to be a good person by making friends and having empathy to others is much much more important
Even more important now with changes in how people interact, working from home and that facts are always at the end of a keyboard"
Absofuckinglutely |
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I learned.....
I can be a tad disruptive in class.
I'm not academic.
I don't like been told what to do.
Kids can be cruel.
That sitting alone in a room that has a vent in to the next door classroom can be quite fun.
Two of my Best mates are old school friends
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Pick one thing that your learned at schook That you still use today?
Mine? Hands down... As i was bring given my 5th week straight of detention for smoking (i never smoked but my mates did so i was liberally tarred with the same brush), i said.. "but sir.. It's not fair"... He replied "lifes not fair boy. Get used to it"
What's yours?
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What an asshole...he had the chance to do the right thing and he didn't ... asshole. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I learned not everyone is an Einstein, school academic's aren't for everyone there are other things in School that people can excel at and enjoy such as Sport , music , acting, being part of a pupil school committee etc , School isn't all about academic's, l learned that lesson and it's stood to me through the test of time , we are all different and look and do different things different ways , ..kinda like here |
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I learned how to use a computer
Spanish
Enough German to get by
A keen interest in history and the ability to recite the content of the post WW1 treaties
Lots of science that I still use every day
Debating skills
An idea of pedagogical methods that work and those that do not
That I could chuck a discus really far and putt a shot pretty niftily too
I also found my husband
I didn't mind school at all. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"How to make paper aeroplanes
We did paper bangers. Really pissed off the teachers
Joe! I didn't have you pegged as a naughty boy! "
I mean, other kids did it. I never did. I disapproved of it all |
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"How to make paper aeroplanes
We did paper bangers. Really pissed off the teachers
Joe! I didn't have you pegged as a naughty boy!
I mean, other kids did it. I never did. I disapproved of it all "
Class detention! |
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By *andyrod1Man
over a year ago
St Margaret's at Cliffe |
After having to stand facing a wall every break time and lunchtime for two weeks, for an incident l was not involved in, even after a witness told the head that l was not involved, l learnt that there really is no justice in this world. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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How to read and immerse myself in others words. Also taught me that even through difficult times (my mum passed when I was 13), that the only person who’s got your back is you!
Mrs |
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By *ugby 123Couple
over a year ago
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"That I hated school from the 2nd year of Senior school. Funny enough I had a dream ( or nightmare) last night that I was back at school and trying to bunk the last two days of term
Did you get the cane?
Not in my dream no but in real life I did once....it wasn't my favourite thing ( in that setting ) so I made sure I didn't get it again
On the back of the hands or the backside? And out of interest... In private or in fromt of everyone? "
On the palm of hands in a Deputy head teachers office with four others. Of course we all said it didn't hurt while thinking that stung like hell |
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By *ugby 123Couple
over a year ago
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I also refused to shower in the communal showers and my father's line for me to say to Ms McMurray was 'I'll follow you through!' ,,,,,,
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Oh god did I hate that bit. We used to pretend we had a period so didn't have to but the teacher started writing all the dates down |
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