Those school Daze. # 2

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Something Tilly said on the other thread made me wonder, what kind of things did you get up to during your school days? Did you get into trouble a lot? Or were you a sensible student that followed all the rules?

I must have broken all the rules at one point or another, sometimes I can't believe what I got away with. Nor, come to that what the teachers in my High school got away with. (Affairs with students being one). Was it just a different world in those days? Things just seem so much more tamer now then they used to be. Or was my school just rougher then most?

I'd be interested to know, the kind of things that you did and if you ever got in trouble for them or not.

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In my high school years, I was an absolute nightmare to the teachers. They could see that I was somewhat intelligent and normally at the head of the class, but at the same time I was completely subversive and tested every rule to the fullest, without quite breaking it. I got the famous F in 'citizenship' more than once for flouting authority.

Of course most of my fellow students mistrusted me for the same reason, because they could never figure out what I was up to.

[fumobici]

I was bad, bad, bad but remarkably lucky never to get caught and ended up at the top of my class. Probably best not to get into specifics

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Nov 10, 2009 6:02:01 GMT fumobici said:

I was bad, bad, bad but remarkably lucky never to get caught and ended up at the top of my class. Probably best not to get into specifics

same here. When I transferred to the public school from the convent school I was the perfect little lady. Didn't take long for all that repression to lift and blossom into subversion.
Much of it had to do with being bored,academically I was two years ahead because the nuns were great educators.

[tillystar]

I was the class clown and was always in trouble for pranks and talking and messing about. I also was always in terrible fearful fits of giggles I couldn't stop even when I knew I was in so much trouble. The worst was when I physically couldn't stop in the headmistresses office. Each time I stopped she would start to speak and I would be doubled over with tears rolling down my cheeks. My form tutor said on my last day that I had been a lot of trouble but at least it had been entertaining teaching me

I didn't go much the last couple of years except to classes that I liked (I prefered to go to my friend's house smoke weed and watch films all day or sit in the library and read what I was interested in) I annoyed the hell out of everyone by still getting really good exam results.

I still feel guilty for what I put that poor new Spanish teacher Miss Elorza through, I think she cursed me and that is why I am so awful at Spanish now

[fumobici]

I always seemed to have a crush on my French teachers

[rikita]

i was mainly an outsider, so no real chance to get in trouble in school as i was on my own, and i was a bit scared of authorities too. was more of a daydreamer though and thus often had trouble focusing on class work. had some difficulties (due to the daydreaming, that was often quite obvious, and i suppose also due to my punk-outfit that made teachers expect me to be more bad than i really was, maybe) in eigth or nineth grade, but else i guess generally i was an okay student, not the best, not the worst, interested and thus active in some classes, not so much in others.

[spindrift]

I was a goody-goody and rarely put a foot wrong. Years of living in a convent made me like this. Since we didn't have half-terms and were locked up in the convent and its grounds for 3 months at a time with no recourse to a telephone, the only thing to do was to obey.
I was a model student and always at the top of the class, first or second.

After my A levels I was sent to another convent in France to learn French, the idea being that I would do languages at university. But I was caught climbing over the French convent walls and after only 6 months I was expelled. After this I indulged in most of the stuff that convent girls are not supposed to indulge in.

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But I was caught climbing over the French convent walls and after only 6 months I was expelled. After this I indulged in most of the stuff that convent girls are not supposed to indulge in.

Care to expand on that, Spindrift? ;D

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My mother escaped from a boarding school. She always said it was with the complicity of the kitchen boy, but she never really gave details.

[lola]

Running off with the kitchen boy sounds pretty romantic.

I generally tried to stay on the right side of the authorities. My resistances were on the passive side, like deciding that 4th year HS math was irrelevant and not worth bothering with, and reading War and Peace during class instead.

At our last class reunion, one of my friends reminded me of the time our dear HS English teacher handed back our essays, apologizing to me for having lost mine. According to my friend I smiled forgivingly and failed to mention that I had never done the paper or turned it in.

[tillystar]

Lola reminds me - once in an entrance exam for a scholarship to the sixth form of a private school I had to write an essay.

I really didn't want to go to the school but didn't want to make it obvious to my parents or the school. I wrote out the first pages and last page of an essay (with the pages carefuly numbered at the top) and nothing in between. The school obviously didn't want to admit they had "lost" my papers as I was offered the place But I refused to go anyway.

[lola]

whoa! genius. I might have to pass that one along to my daughters, for emergency use only.

[spindrift]

Deyana - I'd better not!

Tilly - that WAS a clever thing to do.

[tillystar]

Ah go on Spindrift, give us a hint

The really clever thing to do would have been to accept the place. Duh.