Happiest Days Of Our Lives!

[artymac]

Just had an idea born in the "Vapore" thread.
School, the "Happiest days of our lives"
My secondary school, 12-18 year olds, favoured "the belt" a long, thick strip of leather, split in two half way down to leave a lovely design on your hands and forearms, when some bastard went to town on you, usually for no reason.
In Primary school, 5-12 year olds, the same option was available(I know because i got it) but i remember one teacher who used to bend you across his lap and slap you on the arse with a slipper
When i did something wrong i didn't mind takin' what was due to me, the most i ever got was "four of the belt", two on each hand, but i regularly saw six gettin' deal out and twelve occasionally, but it was the sadistic bastards that will aways stick in my mind(Although i've heard tales from my older brothers and relations of full scale assults!)
Here's the hard part. Now some of the kids from what i hear first hand, are out of control(as some were in my day) and the teachers have no weapons of "ass destruction" to threaten them with.
But i'd love to see some of the hard cases in school today come up against some of the teachers that used to try and teach us back in the day! Espeacially that psychotic nun who used to try and teach us French.
So what you all think. Or were you trying to block that part of your life out

[gixxer]

what school did you go to,,you werent allowed more than 6 and hitting above the wrist could get the teacher done for assault

[artymac]

How do "Gixxer", i left school back in 1982 and they could get off with a hell of a lot back then.
This was especially true of a particular P.E. teacher( Physical Education, with the emthasis on "Physical") we had who was nowt but a wanker in a tracksuit. I found myself getting pulled around a changing room by my hair and my P.E. kit handed out to those who had none because i had a note to excuse me as i had a bad cold and it was about -5 outside!!
This prick used to love to deal out the insults, especially to the over-weight kids, the ones with fuck all and the kids who were just not good at all at P.E. His last words would usually be, "i'm only jokin' now". Aye right.
Many a kid would get "accidently" hit by a Volleyball or Basketball during the course of a lesson. He used to pick the teams during the lesson and include himself amongst the guys who'd be gettin' picked for the school teams, it would be them verses the rest of us- average height 4'5'' with the occasional caliper!! But all the other guys hated him as well, so none of them would pass the ball to him and he'd end up goin' off his nut, while we all pissed ourselves laughing It would end up with all of us having to run the cross-country course for the rest of the lesson, but we didn't care. Gixxer, if you've never seen "Kes" go out and get it. That's more or less how it was. Oh aye, i was more or less the same size and build as "Casper" at the time
Another favourite was "Duck the Duster". If you happened not to have your head down copying what this particular "Teacher" was writing on the blackboard when he turned round, you had to have the reactions of a mongoose to escape serious injury and that went for the poor bastard who was sittin' behind you
I could go on and probably will later, but from what i've heard it was worse when my "older generation" went to school and apparently really bad if your dad was paying for your education otherewise they weren't givin' you value for money

[gixxer]

m8 by the time you left school id already done 1 tour of ulster and was fighting in the falklands, so as you can prob work out i only left 3 yrs before you

i went to lockerbie academy and although we had teachers like that a good fuck you always worked in getting me a suspension or two, not that my da smacking a teacher did any harm

i even remember my pe teacher calling me an irish bastard once, that was the day i walked out for good

[artymac]

Ah "Gixxer", so you had the benefit of some of those forward thinkin' teachin' professionals as well then!! I'll bet the attitude of the ones who thought they could bully their way through year upon year of children changed with the thought that a few more "das" might turn up!(Or it probably made them more choosey) I'm certainly not saying that there wasn't people in my school who gave lots of the teachers greif and in some cases got rightly kicked out. I remember a couple of guys who demonstrated their musical appreciation by settin' fire to the school piano and pushin' it off the stage Most of the people i remember like that just did not want to be there and didn't have the encouragement and the like they may have needed. I can't talk for you, but i believe that the pupils who caused mayhem in the school and some of these fucked-up teachers fed off each other! And before anyone jumps in callin' me a heartless bastard, i know there is often reasons behind childrens behaviour. But every case on its merits.

[bigs]

Just had an idea born in the "Vapore" thread.
School, the "Happiest days of our lives"
My secondary school, 12-18 year olds, favoured "the belt" a long, thick strip of leather, split in two half way down to leave a lovely design on your hands and forearms, when some bastard went to town on you, usually for no reason.
In Primary school, 5-12 year olds, the same option was available(I know because i got it) but i remember one teacher who used to bend you across his lap and slap you on the arse with a slipper
When i did something wrong i didn't mind takin' what was due to me, the most i ever got was "four of the belt", two on each hand, but i regularly saw six gettin' deal out and twelve occasionally, but it was the sadistic bastards that will aways stick in my mind(Although i've heard tales from my older brothers and relations of full scale assults!)
Here's the hard part. Now some of the kids from what i hear first hand, are out of control(as some were in my day) and the teachers have no weapons of "ass destruction" to threaten them with.
But i'd love to see some of the hard cases in school today come up against some of the teachers that used to try and teach us back in the day! Espeacially that psychotic nun who used to try and teach us French.
So what you all think. Or were you trying to block that part of your life out

times have changed! If a teacher did that in an inner London comp,50% off the time they would be shot on their way home.

[Trad]

I remember sitting in class at Old Bedford Road Public School, Luton in Oct./1962, looking out the window worry that there was going to be a nuclear war between the USA and the USSR (Cuba missile crisis). My math professor asked me if I knew the answer, fuck I didn't even know the question! He just went to the blackboard and wrote my name with a "6" next to it. I got 3 on each hand at the end of class from a nine iron with the head cut off, I knew it was a nine iron 'coz' he made a point of telling us boys. The first one hurt like hell and as the second was coming there was a great temptation to flinch. If you moved your hand you got two extra, one on each hand. I didn't move. To remember the sound of that shaft as it was coming down on my hand still makes the hair on my neck stand end wise.

I NEVER was caught looking out the window and always at least knew the question after that.

My brother got two on each for talking in the hall BETWEEN classes. Rather strict back then.

[artymac]

How do "Trad"!, i remember my brother-in-law telling me about the time he got 6 of the belt, 3 on each hand on his last day of high school. All the exams were over and nobody had any classes to go to, so everybody was hanging around in the common room. He and one of his school buddies nipped home to his house, a couple on minutes away, to get a cup of coffee and have a cigarette. He said they were gone for about 20 minutes, but must have got spotted on the way back by this teacher who all the way through the years of the school openly disliked him. So back in the common room in front of all the very soon to be ex-pupils, including all the hot "tottie", this guy tried his best to inflict as much pain as possible and get the reaction he wanted, but the brother-in law to be says he managed to keep the poker face up and just kept crossing his hands so he could do his worst. He said it was agony, but he wouldn't give the prick the satifaction of showing any emotion but contempt. It was the first and only time in all his years at school that he got punished.

[artymac]

[quote="gixxer"]m8 by the time you left school id already done 1 tour of ulster and was fighting in the falklands

"Gixxer", that's an education in it'self.
Bet all that "Pythagoras" and conjugating verbs from "Lockerbie" academy came in real handy

[Rufus]

Sorry guys I'm going to be boring, school was the happiest days of my life, work sucks, school rocked had an absolute ball and would do it all again if I could

[artymac]

How do "Rufus"!, no worries mate! that's the whole point of this thread and all the others. I had many, many great times in high school and liked and respected many of the teachers who taught me in school. It was when i got to 5th & 6th year that my school really became a place i didn't mind going to and almost every day there was something to laugh about.
It was at this time that a lot of the pupils who didn't want to be there in the first place were able to leave, some to find jobs(if they were really lucky ), some got training schemes("Yoppers"- often used as cheap labour ), some joined the army(got a trade, got paid, got shoot at ), some went to "Y.O.'s" and then the jail and the majority joined "Maggies Millions" on the dole Me, as i said, i chilled for 2 years in an atmosphere that was a lot more relaxed, apart from exam time, and then left school to be used as "cheap labour" between "holidays" on the dole.
I suppose one of the main points i'm trying to make, was that if a lot of those teachers i and others described didn't like being there as well, they could leave. But i suspect for some of them it was easy money and they enjoyed what they were doing.

[ftcarer]

School was SHIT only people I bother with from then are my sister & bro in law
College was better if only because it was easier to get stoned there

[echc1]

i was so glad to be expelled from a strict regime.....such a nice place...NOT....highlights of that time? none!

[gixxer]

some joined the army(got a trade, got paid, got shoot at ), But i suspect for some of them it was easy money and they enjoyed what they were doing.

yeah that was me 18 yrs in the forces, then 6 yrs working as a close protection specialist in iraq, funny how these twats that told me id never make anything of my life are still teaching kids, while i earned enough in 6 yrs to retire at 46

[artymac]

"Gixxer" My brother and i did some work for a self made millionaire whilst down in London, who was told by his head teacher when he was leaving school that he'd end up sweepin' the streets! He went back a few years later and sat outside in a "Rolls Royce" and waved to the prick The good bit about the story was he'd only hired it for the day! But as he said to us,"within another couple of years i could have afforded to buy one, but i didn't fancy it!" I don't know if this is an insight into the mind of people who are more likely to become millionaires, but the cunt was a kleptomaniac!!, it didn't matter how much he had
There are many paths in life...just watch out for people hidin' in the bushes!!