FabSwingers.com forum: What did school teach you.

By *ackformore100 OP Man
over a year ago

Tin town

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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By *ackformore100 OP Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"Pick one thing that your learned at schook That you still use today?

What's yours?

Obviously spell checking wasn't one of them

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By *host63Man
over a year ago

Bedfont Feltham

Never to trust anyone

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By *lik and PaulCouple
over a year ago

Flagrante

That I don't like being told what to do.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How to make paper aeroplanes

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By *eneralKenobiMan
over a year ago

North Angus

Some departments burned quicker than others

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Travelling

That I don't like people in general.

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Reading ….. properly reading, critically analysing etc. Shakespeare , Janes Joyce , Poetry , essential skills in global business, that separate the smart from not so smart.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fuck all.

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By *reative-mindMan
over a year ago

Exeter

I was and always will be the weird one sat at the back of class being creative but using it for his own amusement.

With a heart of gold of course.

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

I learnt great ways of skiving

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Travelling

"I was and always will be the weird one sat at the back of class being creative but using it for his own amusement.

With a heart of gold of course. "

Super villain origin story right there

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How to make paper aeroplanes "

We did paper bangers. Really pissed off the teachers

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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?

What's yours?

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 *omtom7Man
over a year ago

Tralee

Maths. I fucking loved maths

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

If I have to choose just one thing it'll be reading. That's a skill that it's difficult to navigate life successfully without.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They taught me how to play rounders.

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

Critical thinking. That's the most important thing for me and one I still use *most* of the time.

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By *he Kat 666Woman
over a year ago

Salisbury

Thst I'm a crack shot with an elastic band and a little piece of folded paper!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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 *hunky GentMan
over a year ago

Maldon and Peterborough

"Thst I'm a crack shot with an elastic band and a little piece of folded paper!!"

Ouch.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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 *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Travelling

That kids are twats! That adults are twats!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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

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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Molecular compounds and how to synthesise biological compounds.

I was the nerd and continue to be now.

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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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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

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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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

O o O oo

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

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By *ex HolesMan
over a year ago

Up North

"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 *weetiepie99Woman
over a year ago

cardiff

How to talk to boys

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

O o O oo

"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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By *estarossa.Woman
over a year ago

Flagrante

A love of classical literature, a non-conformist attitude, and how to get myself ejected from almost any class that bored me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Algebra lol

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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago

Maldon and Peterborough

I always enjoyed art and technical drawing.

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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago

Maldon and Peterborough

"Algebra lol"

You can't beat having 2 apples and 3 bananas.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There's pricks everywhere so choose your people well

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By *ladeBikerMan
over a year ago

Flint

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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In the words of Madness, school taught me 'how to bend, not break the rules...'

Mrs Y

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By *aucasian GhandiMan
over a year ago

from my dad's left nut (Warwick)

Not to trust adults and my peers

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By *s MariposaWoman
over a year ago

Essex

That priests and nuns can be dictators and quite horrid!

Went to a catholic school but certainly realised that I didn’t believe

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How to pretend to be interested

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By *aucasian GhandiMan
over a year ago

from my dad's left nut (Warwick)

That I didn't want to join the army, all boys military school kind of takes the shine of it

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By *ravelling_WilburyMan
over a year ago

Beverley

I learned quite a lot. I enjoyed school. I know it's cool to pretend we were all rebels, but I wasn't

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don’t talk back or you get a slap in the face with a wet cloth.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Don’t talk back or you get a slap in the face with a wet cloth. "

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Travelling

"Don’t talk back or you get a slap in the face with a wet cloth. "

Did it work though?

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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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By *eneralKenobiMan
over a year ago

North Angus

Shatter proof rulers aren’t shatterproof I found as I watched my ruler explode into a million bits when the teacher whacked over the back of my hands

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How to stand up for myself and take no shit from bullies.

MR.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Don’t talk back or you get a slap in the face with a wet cloth.

Did it work though? "

It was very effective

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By *usie pTV/TS
over a year ago

taunton

Wood work and metal work fabulous.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Don’t talk back or you get a slap in the face with a wet cloth. "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’m the weird one..

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By *issIrishCoffeeWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

Never to trust anyone and you don’t need friends

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By *olden oldieTV/TS
over a year ago

cardigan

That all girls panties fit gurls as well

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By *usie pTV/TS
over a year ago

taunton

I would think that school taught most of us the basics of the three Rs

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By *xhibitionisticvoyeurMan
over a year ago

wrexham

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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By *imbo59seMan
over a year ago

North Norfolk area

To pay attention.....ESPECIALLY when the chalk &/or blackboard duster was flying around...... Oh, to duck as well!

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By *osweet69Couple
over a year ago

portsmouth

That I did not need to follow the crowd as I ploughed my own furrow.

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By *ldgeezermeMan
over a year ago

Newcastle

That some teachers were bastards and some were fantastic

The latter I only appreciated after leaving unfortunately

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That some people take joy in making your life a misery

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By *erts_CD71Man
over a year ago

Chiltern Hills

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 *rispyDuckMan
over a year ago

Chinese Takeaway near you

That victory loves preparation

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By *aucasian GhandiMan
over a year ago

from my dad's left nut (Warwick)

Proper preparation prevents piss poor performance

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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago

Maldon and Peterborough

The KISS method.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

To make better cheat notes.

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By *mooth400Man
over a year ago

castletroy

How to suck cock.. Christian Brothers were excellent at teaching that.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

I.T. I still recall being shown the schools 'Commodore Pet' and that was the defining moment.

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

liverpool wavertree picton clock

Farting on plastic chairs sounds better than on a wooden one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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

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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By *ackformore100 OP Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"I would think that school taught most of us the basics of the three Rs"

Bit of an assumption

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By *ackformore100 OP Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"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?

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

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 *eneralKenobiMan
over a year ago

North Angus

"I would think that school taught most of us the basics of the three Rs"

I request elaboration

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The hidden curriculum

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By *ex HolesMan
over a year ago

Up North

That school would be the best days of your life

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"The hidden curriculum"

come off it Pickle no child knows about the hidden curriculum until they have been well and truly fucked by life

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By *ackformore100 OP Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"The hidden curriculum"

They struggled with the visible one let alone any hidden ones

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

Subtlety is the best lesson I ever learned in school.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That there are some really horrible critical, foul ,selfish bastards in life

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Don’t talk back or you get a slap in the face with a wet cloth. "

Daddy chill

Sorry, it's the first thing that popped in my head

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By *igforfun100Man
over a year ago

Magherafelt

How to eat 2 packets of pickled onion crisps in French class after break time. Je ne sais pa's comment

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"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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By *ex HolesMan
over a year ago

Up North

My PE introduced me to the phrase ‘Schrodinger Douchebag’, he was very right.

God rest his soul

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By *eliciousDiva69Woman
over a year ago

Schitts Creek

According to every single school report- I’d do well if I only applied myself and that I’m a chatterbox

What I learnt is that kids are mean

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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

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By *eneralKenobiMan
over a year ago

North Angus

"I make a better door than window"

Be a door with those stockings on and I’d open you anyday

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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

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Travelling

"I make a better door than window

Be a door with those stockings on and I’d open you anyday

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By *eneralKenobiMan
over a year ago

North Angus

"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!

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"That there are some really horrible critical, foul ,selfish bastards in life "

And a surprising number of them decide to be teachers, tormenting children for fun and profit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

Repetition leads to reliability

Circumference is Pi X Diameter

Area is Pi r squared

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"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 *hav02Man
over a year ago

Glasgow/London

Pythagoras and Soh-Cah-Toa

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By *eneralKenobiMan
over a year ago

North Angus

"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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By *ackformore100 OP Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"Repetition leads to reliability

Repetition leads to reliability

Circumference is Pi X Diameter

Area is Pi r squared

Always handy when calculating the girth of an object

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"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 *ittlebirdWoman
over a year ago

The Big Smoke

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

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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.

they kept that line for themselves

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By *obilebottomMan
over a year ago

All over

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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By *entleman_of_pleasureMan
over a year ago

Manchester

How to play Quidditch. Slytherin, and proud of it.

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By *ackformore100 OP Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"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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By *ittlebirdWoman
over a year ago

The Big Smoke

"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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By *ooo wet tight hornyWoman
over a year ago

lancashire

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 *irtydevil666Man
over a year ago

bristol

How to bend not break the rules.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Pick one thing that your learned at schook That you still use today?

What's yours?

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

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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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"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!

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

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

"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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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"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 *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

I learned how to learn. I'm still using that skill.

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By *ex HolesMan
over a year ago

Up North

School was ace

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By *he Kat 666Woman
over a year ago

Salisbury

Oh and I learned to do that awesome flicky thing with a wet tea towel!!!

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By *oo..Woman
over a year ago

Boo's World

Not to talk to strangers

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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago

Maldon and Peterborough

I learned how to do Goesinters

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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

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
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over a year ago

O o O oo

"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
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over a year ago

O o O oo

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!' ,,,,,,

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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By *orthyhellboyMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

How to fight/defend myself.

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By *ackformore100 OP Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"How to fight/defend myself. "

An important skill

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