I was the girl who passed her eleven plus and found the test as easy as livin' in summertime so went to the local grammar school. And there I was faced with loads of other girls who were all very clever, much more than me, and hardworking to boot. I wasn't too keen on the hardworking bit so I was the one that was always persuading others to bunk off and copying homework on the school bus on the way in. Wednesday after school was always detention for me, which meant I couldn't hang around the record shop in a booth listening to something from the top 20 waiting for the boys to come in from the boy's school and then being chucked out for never buying anything. And that was my favourite thing to do. Schooldays the happiest of your life? Bollocks they were!
Still at school in my final year, can say i've changed a bit I liked the attention on me from years 7-9 (12-14 for you oldies out there). From years 10-11 everyone seems to have mellowed including me I like to have peoples attention but only for valid reasons or so we can have some fun. But I never gained attention by being a pratt usually for being a mixture of clever/witty/or thinking I'm clever and in fact actually embarrassing myself. I'm decent at sports and pretty tall but I'm not a bully or jock. I don't smoke never will and shun my friends who do. I get good results a or a stars baring french which I will be lucky to get a c in, I got deputy head boy which depending on your school can either mean your 1) quite popular and seen as a nice enough guy or 2) a massive nerd, luckily my school is the former. Also can I just when the op studied at school and in which country?! Some of those group descriptions are massively outdated but then again the names change by generation with new toys and fads. Good thread though
I was quite short when I first started school in 1961 (Chamberlayne County Primary in Eastleigh), but found that each year without really doing too much i grew a bit. Passed 11 plus and went to barton peverill Grammar, and then 6th form at barton peverill. Here i attained my full height of 5 ft 6 and 3 quarters! I really loved school, loved to study and learn, and was pretty good at passing exams. I look back on those days with very fond memories.
There are many different types of Geeks: Maths Geeks, Science Geeks, Gamer Geeks, Fantasy Geeks, Sci-Fi Geeks, etc. Not all of them are necessarily uber intelligent, although they do share some attributes generally.
Me and my group of friends were the 'normal kids' in the sense that we were not the 'cool kids' and not the geeks, although the cool kids probably saw us as geeks none the less. I was a quiet semi-hard-worker goody-two-shoes in school and rarely did anything that broke any rules. Within my group of friends I was the intelligent one, although as school went on I became more rebellious but not obviously so, I became a school prefect but also ended up doing a couple of all-night coursework sessions in secret and was even told off in class a few times I enjoyed sports (except rounders - could never hit the ruddy ball!) and ran for the school cross-country club twice a week, representing the school in the Butser Hill cross country race. I did pretty well in my GCSE's and then went on to Barton Peveril College where unfortunately my rebellious streak got out of hand. I was a late bloomer and suddenly realised that I was actually attractive to girls and grew the confidence to actually talk to them too I went from being a straight laced shy school boy to a loud, confident college student and went out clubbing and drinking more often then not. I just about made it to the end of college, I was threatened with being chucked out and ended up with useless A-levels Still somehow managed to get into my first choice uni even though I didn't earn nearly enough UCAS points (based on grades) and since then I have done the full reversal and gone back to my hard-working ways, recently receiving a letter congratulating me on being in the top ten for grades on my course (200-ish) at Plymouth. Even if nobody cares, it was fun to reminisce! The take home message to anyone in school at the moment is that your future is what you make it, hard work beats talent if talent doesn't work hard isn't just true for football!
I was described as a barrack room lawyer by various teachers, but mitigated this by being class clown also. Schoolwork was very easy for me, so I just cruised it and had far too much time on my hands for pranks and general messing about. I bumped into an ex-girlfriend a few years ago who informed me that I was a total slut back then, and had a really bad rep with the nice girls - didn't realise it at the time, but then again, I didn't have a lot to do with the nice girls. I was always selling something too, cigarettes, booze and anything else that people wanted. I'm really glad none of my kids turned out like me because I must have been a nightmare to teach. I was once caned in front of the school assembly, however the cane snapped after about 5 strokes and I started laughing - won me loads of kudos with the tough kids
Maybe....but it is what keeps your ears apart........ (Oh God first time have been able to use that in years)........
