Which secondary school did you go to?
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Just following on from This thread
Which secondary school did you go to ?
Just to kick off, I went to this one
You never know, it might bring a few people back together!
Which secondary school did you go to ?
Just to kick off, I went to this one
You never know, it might bring a few people back together!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ayton_Friends%...
Was a Quaker school. Loved it, closed down not long after as not enough people could afford to send kids there. Happy memories.
Was a Quaker school. Loved it, closed down not long after as not enough people could afford to send kids there. Happy memories.
Edited by AClownsPocket on Saturday 13th August 08:47
I was so badly bullied at my first secondary school that I don't actually want to name it, but it's an aspirational comprehensive-in-name-only s
thole full of poisonous mostly upper middle class brats who didn't know they were born and treated anybody different like subhumans, with the active encouragement of about a third of the staff. Another third, maybe a bit more, were decent people trying to do a hard job and the remainder had given up.
Moved after 3 years to a voluntary aided ACTUALLY comp school - the kind that actually does have kids of all abilities and welcomes them - basically wasted 2 years recovering from the first place and the next 2 trying to figure out who I was. Being in a school where the prevailing staff culture was wanting the kids to be OK probably contributed to the very good results the more academically able achieved.
thole full of poisonous mostly upper middle class brats who didn't know they were born and treated anybody different like subhumans, with the active encouragement of about a third of the staff. Another third, maybe a bit more, were decent people trying to do a hard job and the remainder had given up. Moved after 3 years to a voluntary aided ACTUALLY comp school - the kind that actually does have kids of all abilities and welcomes them - basically wasted 2 years recovering from the first place and the next 2 trying to figure out who I was. Being in a school where the prevailing staff culture was wanting the kids to be OK probably contributed to the very good results the more academically able achieved.
AClownsPocket said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ayton_Friends%...
Was a Qauker school. Loved it, closed down not long after as not enough people could afford to send kids there. Happy memories.
Did you get your oats there?Was a Qauker school. Loved it, closed down not long after as not enough people could afford to send kids there. Happy memories.
(See what I did there?)
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