Your School Experience?

[Beast]

In years 8 and 9 I was bullied pretty badly and didn't have many good friends. They wouldn't stick up for me and would sometimes join in to be part of the group, which was why they aren't y friends any more. In year 10 I went to a new form and made friends with people I'm still friends with now. Extra-curricular activities were good at my school and I did plenty of sport and music and stuff, which helped me become more confident. Getting a girlfriend in year 10 helped a lot too, despite the fact she was a bitch I certainly would do a few things differently now, but at the same time it's made me who I am so *shrug*

 

As for studying, I was in a grammar school too (all boys) and was bullied because I was one of the better students. I wasn't amazing, but I was pretty good and left with results I'm really proud of. I beat my predictions at A level and genuinely couldn't believe it. I wouldn't have gotten those results at another school, so I certainly wouldn't have wanted to go somewhere else. And the bullies are now all drug addicts or doing nothing with their lives, while I'm really happy, so in the end I guess I win

 

A few of these things I can relate to. My closer then-friends were good but they wouldn't stick up for me when I got bullied but they didn't take part so it wasn't all bad. My then-friends I made in Secondary School ended up trying to bully everyone because they wanted to hang out with the cool guys (a.k.a. the chavs).

 

I come out on top though because I have morals, standards and I'm better than them. They've either got kids with the wrong woman, taking drugs, selling drugs, selling knives or in prison. I had a few bullies and I still see them around now and they don't bother with me. Some can do and I confront them then they go away again. Seems like some people never learn, eh?

 

I would go back because knowing what I know now, things might have been different. But then again, I most likely wouldn't be the person I am today. Besides, I miss the good times and, though it's hard to remember them sometimes through the bullying, they were awesome times with my friends and I miss having a laugh with them and keeping in contact.

 

I'm quite bitter about secondary school. I would say I didn't have the stereotypical "terrible" schooldays, but 16 years later I still can't make much sense of it, so perhaps it was worse than I'll admit.

 

I fitted in until Year 8, when I went off the rails, I suppose. Until then I'd been pretty friendly with the intelligent kids and it was a bit like primary school. I then started drifting away from them and became quite unpopular with a lot of the others. One problem is they started to be interested in more "adult" things like alcohol, clubs etc, and I wasn't interested in that. I wasn't bullied, that would give you the wrong impression, but it was violent at times.

 

School taught me that if I left my defences open, I'd be attacked. If I left something unattended, it'd be stolen. If I didn't do the same as everyone else, I wouldn't fit in.

 

If that's what school's for, unfortunately, it worked.

 

I relate to this as well. I was popular and yet bullied (don't ask how that worked because I don't know myself). I wasn't like the other kids because the other kids were always about alcohol, drugs and other stuff and I wasn't.

 

Unfortunately, school learned me the same thing but I do think that it's good because it's more or less the truth in life in my experiences...but why try and fit in, right? Just be yourself and if they hate you for that, screw them, they're the sheep!

[Dannyboy-the-Dane]

I really can't complain. Despite all the challenges I've had in my life due to my autism, I've never been bullied because of it. Basically all the schools I've been to have been great, (most of) the teachers have been great, and (pretty much) all my classmates have been great (the bad ones weren't all that bad, and the good ones were brilliant).

 

Academically I wouldn't change a thing. I've done great, and even when I could've done better, it was because I prioritised not stressing myself too much.

 

Socially ... now, that's where I'd like to go back and tell myself to do stuff differently. Whether I'd be able to is hard to say, especially since my autism played a huge part in it, but still. Now, I've always had great friends and done fine socially, but due to my autism I was always behind on the whole socialising thing compared to my peers. I began partying at a late time, I began drinking at a late time, I began dating at a late time, etc. It was one thing that my autism hampered me socially, as I seem to have more or less conquered that hurdle, but another aspect entirely is the way it has influenced my self-esteem. Being different all my life, despite having always been accepted by others, has not done wonders for my view of myself, and presently I don't exactly hold myself in the highest regard. Having been behind on the social front hasn't helped my self-esteem, either, and it's especially taken its toll the past three years, ironically enough because I began developing a lot socially and thus became aware of where I was compared to where I could have been/wanted to be.

 

Still, on the whole I'm really happy with how my life has developed so far. Besides, as has been so correctly pointed out, there's really no sense dwelling on the past. Savour the good memories, deal with the bad, learn from your mistakes and move on.

[Jon]

I definitely could have done more. I never really got bullied but I always managed to drift between the different social circles. It's funny looking back now at people I went to school with, I used to act so fake with these people because I didn't want any trouble or anyone thinking anything bad of me. Nowadays I couldn't give a shit about these idiots and would quite happily tell them that to their face.

 

A lot of my classes suffered from teachers who just couldn't control the antics of some of the kids, which unfortunately for me, led to little learning. Not that I didn't join in some times but I was never in trouble, I always tried to lay low and keep out of the troublemakers way. It's funny when I get requests on Facebook from people I went to School with and they always ask why I didn't add them and I take great pleasure in telling them that they were a dick then and still are a dick now.

[bryanee]

Loved school. When else do you get to spend 6 hours a day with your mates and not doing much atall. I was never bullied but there didnt seem to be much of that atall. My high school was pretty small compared to most, only four seperate classes of kids in my year group.

 

When the dinner brake rolled around a group of us would go to local chippy and play Marvel Super Heroes, X-Men: Children of the Atom and X-Men vs Street Fighter. Then we started going to a mates instead as he lived 2 minutes from school and we would play Goldeneye and I would destroy all.

 

School was a blast for me and I can see why my parents used to say you'll miss it when its over.

[Josh64]

It was okay until about year 10, then it went terrible :P It was a typically rough school full of chavs but I somehow managed to keep out of all the trouble - Until it got out that I was gay that is. I now know what it must have been like living in the 1950's as a gay man as I felt sheer hatred from every lad in school and got abuse every day in pretty much every class.

 

So suddenly I had no friends, though they were obviously not worth having if they were that shallow. I didn't let it get to me though and ended up finding a group of like minded people who were all awesome - Que fun dinner times of huge Mario Kart DS races!

[Coolness Bears]

I hate it when people say you will miss school once it's gone like it's a dying relative.

 

Do I miss it? no.

 

Did I like it? yes.

 

It's probably because I don't dwell pointlessly in the past. (except when the doctor touched me on my first day but that just haunts me in my dreams.) I think people get the impression that I didn't enjoy school but it was a really great school to play Tetris.

 

...until someone interrupted but they ended up with a thick psychology book to the head. Not through anger or malice but for fun...isn't that scarier?

 

It was the best place for my sensitive nature, people left you alone and when they didn't they found that I wasn't as stupid and confused as I look. I may be a little slow but that doesn't make me unclever.

 

Over the years I learnt to ignore the asinine comments that came my way and grew to over come adversity with kindness. I bought my enemies ice-cream and displayed overwhelming warmth towards them. (After years of calling them paedophiles)

 

At school I don't think I could have worked any harder, beating Resident Evil 4 took me 15 hours, Gears Of War was just as long and Smash Bros Melee took up all my energy until I was lying sideways on my roly poly, my arm lying by my side like nintendo had injected me with heroin and with controller in hand just holding right on the analogue stick so that my character would die to unlock more stuff.

 

I was alone most of the time. I don't like to hark on about it because when I do people immediately go to glum mode touch my shoulder and go, "Why so alone?" as if I had a disease or some form of mental ilness for not wanting to spend time with people. It's not even if I was at the top because people say its lonely up there. I was a happy guy in the middle.

 

I just don't get on with people very well or at least had that thought process turning me into this weird person who squawked at passers by. It's not as if I was alone all the time I did have A friend. People got in the way though and which is partly the reason why I didn't see Juno in the cinema. That is my biggest regret to this day, honest to blog. It's probably because I'd never been shown how to make friends. They way I thought it was appropriate was to tackle someone down and repeatedly punch them in the face, it worked so when I got to Uni and did that to a girl I had a whole different kind of situation. (lawsuit) on my hand.

 

Aside from the seven years of paranoia that has set in to this day and my fall from normal society into existentialism and apathy, it was a great experience. :awesome:

Edited April 26, 2011 by Coolness Bears

[Dannyboy-the-Dane]

You tackled and repeatedly face-punched a girl to socialise with her ...? o_O'

[Goafer]

I regret nothing about school.

 

Socially, I wish I'd been a bit more confident I guess, but I had a decent social life. I did the whole underage drinking thing, but not enough to be a twat. I think I did enough "experimenting" with my youth and I'm a better person for it.

 

I was generally just another face in the crowd. I wasn't one of the popular kids, but I wasn't a nerd either. At least I didn't get picked on for being a nerd. I had plenty of friends and generally got on with everyone and the ones I didn't get along with just minded their own business most of the time. I've heard of bullying in my year, but never saw any.

 

I do wish I'd kept in touch with a few more people from school, but I keep in touch with enough.

 

Academically, I now want to do something completely different than I did then, so even if I had have tried harder at school, it wouldn't have gained me anything now. Plus, despite having a dark room, my school didn't offer photography as a course. So even if I did know that I wanted to do photography as a career, there was little I could do to learn it.

 

Also, if I had have done photography at school, I wouldn't have done the evening course I did a couple of years ago, which was awesome.

 

 

 

Whilst we are on the subject of school, I recently joined the local camera club. It's held at my old secondary school. It's also in the art department, which was my tutor group for most of secondary school and all of sixth form. The nostalgia is almost overwhelming. It's great.

[EEVILMURRAY]

I was bullied also. This one prick made infant and junior school hell for me. Now all these years later I find out my brother may be moving in with him... fucking prick.

 

Physics was a good lesson at comp though, we could get the teacher talking about random stuff for the whole lesson. When he tried getting back to the lesson subject we'd just enquire more about the random subject and off he went. Brilliant.

[Raining_again]

I remember a particularly traumatic PE class in school. we had like jogging bottom things for PE, as well as skirts. I got the face yapped off me for wearing the bottoms in an indoor class despite the fact my legs were about 60% covered in psoriasis. These days there would be a law suit...

 

I don't think I went through an hour of school, and day, any year, any class, without having some kind of derogatory comment thrown in my direction. I finally lost it and broke down in a 5th year geography class, after a typical "scabies" insult was thrown my way..

 

I got bullied in primary school because I had no idea what the difference was between catholics and protestants, and my teacher lost the plot one day and threw my english book at me... coming from a different country and trying to learn a different sylabus from a different school... that teacher also accused me of bullying the bullies.... i didn't have it in me, could barely make eye contact with people when I was that age

 

I have a somewhat autistic behaviour pattern... and people wonder why....huh

 

i probably wouldnt have admitted this if i hadnt had a few drinks in melol

[mcj metroid]

Never had any trouble. Mostly enjoyed my time being in an all-boys school most associated for being a rugby school... ah boyhood crushes

[Grazza]

I relate to this as well. I was popular and yet bullied (don't ask how that worked because I don't know myself).

 

I would guess it's something to do with the nice kids still like you, but don't really have the backbone to make themselves stand out by sticking up for you too much. Personally, I became known as a "grass", which I didn't think I was, it's just that if someone did something wrong to me I'd report it and co-operate with the teachers. It's my belief that you shouldn't break your morals and cover for people, but they didn't understand. For example, some of them thought I would grass them up for smoking, and yet I wouldn't (it's up to them if they want to ruin their health).

 

For more on-the-moment things, I would just react with appropriate violence. For instance, it sounds like you're meant to just "take" punches if you want to fit in (I'm not talking about friends playfighting, I understand the difference), but I wouldn't have that for a moment.

 

And the theft. I had a jumper stolen from the changing rooms, then later my Prefect's badge from the same place. That's bad enough, but if teachers let chavs back into the changing rooms before everyone else, that's what's going to happen. What bothers me more is that I had a geometry set stolen when I had to leave an English classroom (the teacher was out too). Now, that room was full of mostly-decent people, and to this day no one has ever told me who stole it. I know it wouldn't have been any of my "mates" (who I am still on good terms with), I just hate the fact that the masses cover for a few scumbags.

 

Unfortunately, school learned me the same thing but I do think that it's good because it's more or less the truth in life in my experiences...

 

I see what you mean, but on the other hand, have you been in any situations that were actually as bad as school? I went to college - fitted in, was included, didn't have any problems at all. I've had many jobs over the years - again, fitted in, no one would dare behave like they did at school.

 

Thinking about it, there's something particularly awful about schools. For the record, I went to a Church of England primary school, and yes I was a bit naughty and had arguments here and there, but I basically fitted in well and was friends with everyone. We liked the same TV shows, socialised outside of school etc.

 

Then I went to a Comprehensive (which I am guessing everyone who had a really bad experience did). There must be a core problem with them... I think it's that they "collect" all the local primary schools, so you get the extremes mixing with each other. You had the nice kids from my C of E school and some intelligent kids from another local school, then unfortunately you had the kids from the rougher schools. I don't want to stereotype here, because those schools themselves had nice kids who kept themselves to themselves, but at the same time, all the bad kids came from those schools too.

 

I'm particularly shocked by Rezourceman's experience because it confirms my suspicion that school is basically a place where people will be horrible to you. Thinking about it, going to the local Comprehensive was one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made. I would try to avoid sending my own kids to one at all costs. I'd rather they grew up spoilt brats than nervous wrecks beaten down by the crap society we have. It's madness that we send kids into this experience.

 

This thread certain hasn't given me much faith in British state education.

[Goafer]

I was bullied also. This one prick made infant and junior school hell for me. Now all these years later I find out my brother may be moving in with him... fucking prick.

 

Physics was a good lesson at comp though, we could get the teacher talking about random stuff for the whole lesson. When he tried getting back to the lesson subject we'd just enquire more about the random subject and off he went. Brilliant.

 

Our physics teacher was exactly the same. It was great. He was a genuinely nice guy too, so part of our question was trying to skip a lesson, but part of it was genuine interest.

[Dannyboy-the-Dane]

I find it utterly horrible reading about some of these experiences. I never imagined things were this bad.

[Shorty]

The fact is, school is just school, and as soon as it's over you realise how irrelevant it was. Most of us weren't mature enough to cement any real friendships, and that happened straight aftewards in 6th form/college/work. I was so happy to move on to college and never look at most of those people ever again.

 

On the other hand, I would abso-fucking-lutely hate to go to school these days. With phone cameras and facebook and the like? Bullying must be out of control. I am going to be well on the ball with my kids.

Edited April 26, 2011 by Shorty

[Beast]

I would guess it's something to do with the nice kids still like you, but don't really have the backbone to make themselves stand out by sticking up for you too much. Personally, I became known as a "grass", which I didn't think I was, it's just that if someone did something wrong to me I'd report it and co-operate with the teachers. It's my belief that you shouldn't break your morals and cover for people, but they didn't understand. For example, some of them thought I would grass them up for smoking, and yet I wouldn't (it's up to them if they want to ruin their health).

 

For more on-the-moment things, I would just react with appropriate violence. For instance, it sounds like you're meant to just "take" punches if you want to fit in (I'm not talking about friends playfighting, I understand the difference), but I wouldn't have that for a moment.

 

And the theft. I had a jumper stolen from the changing rooms, then later my Prefect's badge from the same place. That's bad enough, but if teachers let chavs back into the changing rooms before everyone else, that's what's going to happen. What bothers me more is that I had a geometry set stolen when I had to leave an English classroom (the teacher was out too). Now, that room was full of mostly-decent people, and to this day no one has ever told me who stole it. I know it wouldn't have been any of my "mates" (who I am still on good terms with), I just hate the fact that the masses cover for a few scumbags.

 

 

 

I see what you mean, but on the other hand, have you been in any situations that were actually as bad as school? I went to college - fitted in, was included, didn't have any problems at all. I've had many jobs over the years - again, fitted in, no one would dare behave like they did at school.

 

Thinking about it, there's something particularly awful about schools. For the record, I went to a Church of England primary school, and yes I was a bit naughty and had arguments here and there, but I basically fitted in well and was friends with everyone. We liked the same TV shows, socialised outside of school etc.

 

Then I went to a Comprehensive (which I am guessing everyone who had a really bad experience did). There must be a core problem with them... I think it's that they "collect" all the local primary schools, so you get the extremes mixing with each other. You had the nice kids from my C of E school and some intelligent kids from another local school, then unfortunately you had the kids from the rougher schools. I don't want to stereotype here, because those schools themselves had nice kids who kept themselves to themselves, but at the same time, all the bad kids came from those schools too.

 

I'm particularly shocked by Rezourceman's experience because it confirms my suspicion that school is basically a place where people will be horrible to you. Thinking about it, going to the local Comprehensive was one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made. I would try to avoid sending my own kids to one at all costs. I'd rather they grew up spoilt brats than nervous wrecks beaten down by the crap society we have. It's madness that we send kids into this experience.

 

This thread certain hasn't given me much faith in British state education.

 

Same here, it's crazy the way the schools run! I'll still remember the promise my headmaster made:

 

"We put a stop to any form of bullying."

 

Yeah, like that worked(!) There was only one teacher everyone was afraid of and even then, it was a bit hard to get a hold of her. I remember when I was in Year 10, the bullying had stopped except for this one guy who made it his life's mission to ridicule me. The name's hurt a little but I ignored them but when he saw that it wasn't hurting me, he started happyslapping me and I tried to catch him but he was too fast for me. I tried to tell the teacher but he told everyone I was making it up and his friends backed him up so they didn't do anything. Anyway, skip to about three weeks later and he was still happyslapping me and I had enough. I spent forty minutes trying to find him and when I did, I punched him hard. The teachers broke it up and I went back to my class. He came bursting in, picked up a chair and threatened to hit me with it. I stood up and ran over to him to hit him but two of the teachers held me back. We were shouting things at each other and I managed to push past the teachers and hit him again really hard and he ran out. Word got round and then I wasn't bullied anymore. Shame it took me that long to figure out that going beserk stops the torment.

 

I had a mobile phone stolen from me. When I was in school, we had to get changed for P.E. I saw everyone leave, I put the phone in my bag and saw the teacher lock up. An hour later, I come back to the changing room, teacher unlocks the door, I get dressed and went to get my phone out only it wasn't there. I looked everywhere and it wasn't there but I did notice that the window was shut to and was easy enough to climb through if you were thin. I don't think they'd steal it for the phone considering it was old but to wind me up and get to me. I told the teachers but they just said I lost it, which I know for a fact is utter bollocks!

 

The whole 'fitting in' thing didn't get to me for one second. I didn't want to be part of the 'cool' gang one little bit since they were dickheads. I did have a few friends and some were idiots and did stupid things. I started off being friends with everyone and ended up being friends with four people (two who I spoke to since Infants). I just say be yourself and if they don't like it, they wouldn't be good friends anyway so it's no loss. I never really felt like I fit in or belonged so much. I could be in a room full of people but still feel alone. My friends were cool but we kind of grew apart when we got older because we were so different. In recent times, I've made new friends and don't hardly talk to my old ones because they can't really be bothered with me or they've let me down too many times. I like my new friends a whole lot better anyway.

 

Also, I had the same experience in my second college as I did in school. My first college was awesome and I loved it but my second college was a horrible experience. I was the odd one out and felt like an outcast. I made no friends, spoke to nobody and just done my work. There were a couple of good moments (one being the orgasm prank video I showed you all) but I never really got along with them. I felt like they were talking behind my back or something so I kept myself to myself. I tried to get along with them but I didn't really want to. At the end of the year, everyone were swapping each other's numbers and nobody asked for mine and nobody even said goodbye to me or anything. I didn't mind, really, because they felt like strangers anyway. They knew nothing about me but I knew a lot about them and what I knew, I didn't really like so it makes no odds.

 

It's so weird how the school systems haven't really improved and how schools promise to beat bullying and fail miserably. Also, I just realised this may be the longest post I've ever wrote...I'll stop now!

[Dog-amoto]

Even at school I always knew that this was an irrelevant part of my life (socially anyway) so I never really bothered too much about friendships. I was happy to just do my work, and go home at the end of the day. I had a few people I hung around with, but I always knew that after school was over, I'd never see these people again - didn't really want to. I also spent a bit of time with a guy who was openly gay, even at age 14, so everyone assumed I was gay as well and I got a little bit of bullying for it. But that stopped after a lad got far too personal and I beat the shit out of him.

 

By the end of the fifth year (think it's called year 11 nowadays) I practically had nobody to call a friend as I just alienated everyone I think. One of my memories was on the last day, everyone was given a photograph of the entire year to keep. I threw mine away before I'd even left the room and went home even though I was supposed to go to an assembly afterwards.

 

Have probably made it sound worse than it actually was. None of this really bothered me though, I just never had any real interest in any of my school friends. I haven't kept in contact with anyone, though a few are on my Facebook list, but I think they just added me to be nosy. To be honest, I don't remember quite a few of them!

 

But as someone already said, I'd hate to be at school now with mobile phones, internet, texting and Facebook. When I was at school, the only way to communicate was to ring someone's home phone, or go round to their house.

Edited April 26, 2011 by Dog-amoto

[The fish]

Even though my particular line of teaching is a little different to the mainstream, I do teach kids, and the first rule of thumb with anything like bullying is that if a student makes and accusation of it, you have to investigate it. If they're telling the truth, the truth will come out - remember, school's aren't courts: you don't need to have irrefutable evidence of someone bullying you to get it dealt with, and the bullies will often break under interrogation - or they're making it up, as a way of bullying the accused (that latter happened to me in school).

 

Overall, my school was better than most on the bullying front, though it also made that most horrifically naive of claims: "there is no bullying at this school". There wasn't much serious physical bullying, but the more low-key verbal abuse was rife.

 

Over all, school was...OK. I got the piss taken out of me for having long hair, though I found an effective counter to that was the response which I often adapt to situations (though I cannot claim originality as I've since discovered that Churchill, of all people, used a version of it): "I wanted to, I could get my hair cut tomorrow or grow it as long as I wanted. You, however, will always be an arsehole".

 

As for the work side of things, I wish I'd spent a bit more time studying, especially in the run up to GCSE's. I also which my school didn't force me into fucking useless, stupid subjects. Like Food Technology. Fuck me, that was a waste of fucking time.

[EEVILMURRAY]

The fact is, school is just school, and as soon as it's over you realise how irrelevant it was. Most of us weren't mature enough to cement any real friendships, and that happened straight aftewards in 6th form/college/work. I was so happy to move on to college and never look at most of those people ever again.

It's amazing how the social boundaries get shat on after entering college. Some people who considered themselves "above" myself and my friends suddenly love us and we're all friends in perfect harmony.

[Happenstance]

Our physics teacher was exactly the same. It was great. He was a genuinely nice guy too, so part of our question was trying to skip a lesson, but part of it was genuine interest.

 

Which teacher was that?

[ReZourceman]

I remember a particularly traumatic PE class in school. we had like jogging bottom things for PE, as well as skirts. I got the face yapped off me for wearing the bottoms in an indoor class despite the fact my legs were about 60% covered in psoriasis. These days there would be a law suit...

 

Ugh. Stuff like this is just....so unbelievably fucking ridiculous and unacceptable. Its....god. I forgot my P.E. tracksuit trousers once so had to do P.E. in my pants. Dance it was. Dance in my fucking pants.

 

And (at my first school, the good one) we had to have a shower. As in the teacher would be in the changing room, making sure we had one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

:/

[Ramar]

 

Ugh. Stuff like this is just....so unbelievably fucking ridiculous and unacceptable. Its....god. I forgot my P.E. tracksuit trousers once so had to do P.E. in my pants. Dance it was. Dance in my fucking pants.

 

And (at my first school, the good one) we had to have a shower. As in the teacher would be in the changing room, making sure we had one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

:/

 

Thats bad.

 

I remember turning up for my GCSE PE exam with the wrong kit. Mandatory PE kit was white polo shirt and black shorts, but when we got to year 11 we started to wear what we wanted. Anyway I turn up with a blue bo selecta t-shirt and jogging bottoms, turn around and every other bastard in the changing room had remembered it was the exam and had the correct kit. Stuck out like a sore thumb. I played shite which compounded the awful events.

[Paj!]

Everyone had such a bad time.

 

If it helps I was taught by a paedophile once. (in P6)

 

He was actually one of the teachers who was in charge of watching the little kids going into the shower.

 

He was really nice and an otherwise good teacher though.

 

And people used to call me an "emo" for like a year when I was 14/15. But it was more like "calling"/"questioning", not "shouting". And considering I wasn't, I just madonnagif'd them and moved on with my life.

[nightwolf]

The fact is, school is just school, and as soon as it's over you realise how irrelevant it was. Most of us weren't mature enough to cement any real friendships, and that happened straight aftewards in 6th form/college/work. I was so happy to move on to college and never look at most of those people ever again.

 

On the other hand, I would abso-fucking-lutely hate to go to school these days. With phone cameras and facebook and the like? Bullying must be out of control. I am going to be well on the ball with my kids.

 

This is my reaction to school these days.

 

I was bullied from pretty much infant school (year 1,2) up til I left high school, I won't go into the details, because I don't like to, it's the same old story. I will say though - fish was talking about bullies owning up, there was more than one bully for me and I knew full well if I mentioned anything it wouldn't have made my life any easier >.<.

 

I didn't particularly like school even with the bullying, I can easily get work done and I worked hard, but even when I work incredibly hard I can never get really good grades, I'm not an exam person by any means, which is why my better subjects are always the ones I relied on coursework for.

 

School was school though, now it doesn't particularly phase me, I had an awful time for those 5 years and didn't get the best grades, but I got enough and just alittle bit more to get me into college and uni, so I don't look back on it much.

[Ramar]

Everyone had such a bad time.

 

I must admit I'm a bit shocked at the amounts of people who were bullied.