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Copperhaired Berserker!
10-03-2005, 23:52
I'll tell mine's first. I was teached in St.Marks peimary school, in Hamilton. It was a great school. Although most of them were idiots. From the start I was the top of the class. I loved it there. Ahh, good memories..
I'll tell mine's first. I was teached in St.Marks peimary school, in Hamilton. It was a great school. Although most of them were idiots. From the start I was the top of the class. I loved it there. Ahh, good memories..
Does Primary School= k-6? If it does... I've was at three different schools. THe first one was a crappy as public school in VA where the teachers swore at us and called us idiots. That was k-1. 2-4 was a catholic school in VA which was a little better (No we didn't have nuns). 5 was a catholic school in Michigan which sucked horribly. I had this nun teach me history and religion (She had a finger cut off). It was absolutely terrible, these other two insane nuns ran it. 6th grade was a public school in PA which wasn't bad.
Uesugi Kenshin
10-04-2005, 01:55
Well K-6, bad times. First two years of schooling were at a private school, not so bad there except the teachers were not really nice a lot of the time. Transferred to the public school across the street for the rest. Kids were real idiots, I was, for better or worse, the kid they picked on the most. I responded violently most of the time, but eventually I developed the ability to ignore them. Teachers were hit or miss, 1st-2nd grade I had a good teacher, 3rd the teacher wasn't able to keep the class under control, 4th-5th I had an excellent teacher, 6th I had a wretched teacher. But I seem to have come out okay despite that, or perhaps because of it.
Strike For The South
10-04-2005, 01:56
My school is on a farm and it sucks :cowboy:
Does Primary School= k-6? If it does... I've was at three different schools. THe first one was a crappy as public school in VA where the teachers swore at us and called us idiots. That was k-1. 2-4 was a catholic school in VA which was a little better (No we didn't have nuns). 5 was a catholic school in Michigan which sucked horribly. I had this nun teach me history and religion (She had a finger cut off). It was absolutely terrible, these other two insane nuns ran it. 6th grade was a public school in PA which wasn't bad.
It's grades 1-6 or grades primary-6. As institutions they are called either primary schools (as in Ontario) or as mine were elementary schools (Nova Scotia-best part of Canada BTW). I went to 3 elementary schools, grade primary was at St. Catherines, 1-4 at St. Joesphes-A. McKay, grade 5-6 at St. Stephens. They were all public schools too. Being in the inner city as I was a kid all the schools there were built between 1900-1950. In those days they had catholic schools (named after saints) and protestant schools (named after buisness/political types). Hence the names, now-a-days they are named after where they are built. I switched around because of french emersion. Canada being bilingual my mom put all three of us into french emersion when the time came. When I was 5 (back in 1986) and going into primary the only one close to me was St. Catherines. And even then it was nearly on the other side of the city, I lived in the north end it was in the west end. But in 87 St. Joesph's-A. McKay started french emersion and there I went, as it was much closer. I switched again in grade 5 because my class at A. McKay had been getting smaller by 1-2 people per year since I started there, and after grade 4 they sent a letter home with us that the class was going to be 11 people next year and the regulations said that you don't hire a teacher for less than 12 non-special needs kids. I would have ended up going back to St. Catherines or some other place in the south end or down town, don't remember which. So mother and I decided to switch me out of french emersion (as a concequense my french sounds like a 7 yearolds :dizzy2: ) and i went to the neighbourhood school St. Stephens. My brother and sister stayed in french emersion until high school though. Their french (especially my brothers) is way better than mine. Frenchmen (from France) have though my brother was a french-Canadian he was so fluent.
Uesugi Kenshin
10-04-2005, 03:58
Wow Lars, all of mine were just named after towns.... Or school districts.
Oh interesting factoid I forgot, I live in one town, but I went to school in the next because though the one I live in has its own school I am technically in the other one's school district. The border of our yard is the town border.....
Gawain of Orkeny
10-04-2005, 06:34
ekindegarden through 6 were a ball. Nothing but fond memories. Then all of a sudden you realise theres girls in the class in JH and it all goes to crap.~D
Mouzafphaerre
10-04-2005, 06:47
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It was a total waste of five precious years. I learned nothing. I could already read, write and do the four operatins when I was four or five and that was all what the sick female tailless primate, whom we had to call teacher, and who was doing hardly anything but beating all of us with bare hands or often broken and replaced sticks, taught the rest of the class.
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Duke Malcolm
10-04-2005, 11:06
Ahh... mighty Primary School... Primary 1 to Primary 7 spent in Blackness Primary School. It has degenerated since my class to Secondary School for S1, and has no permanent Headmistress, but has had about 4 since then...
It was fun. I remember we got to drop various item of stationery from the third floor balcony to the second floor gym/assembly hall to time how long it took for them to fall. I also remember that every other week we would go to assembly and the school chaplain would come a-visiting and we would sing hymns, and pray, and such and such (N.B. This was an ordinary State School, not a posh Public school, or a R.C. School).
edyzmedieval
10-04-2005, 12:09
In Romania, primary school is 1-4.
I wasted 4 years. I already knew how to write and read from kindergarden.
But the 7th and the 8th grade is and was a lot of fun....
a fine school and fine friends, nice time but not as nice as now, coz I play stw mp now~:)
Geoffrey S
10-04-2005, 13:42
I found it way too easy, and teachers did sod all to keep me interested. They all had this great idea that students who were quicker at understanding things than others shouldn't be given special treatment when it came to learning, because that might imply they had favourites; no extra work, no reduction of lesson time, no nothing. Hence, I was bored out of my mind and learned nothing new in the last years.
Me, bitter? ~D
oh yes indeed it was way, way,way, waaayyyy tooooo easy!
Byzantine Prince
10-04-2005, 15:07
People beat me up every day............. because they were jealous. ~:rolleyes:
Craterus
10-04-2005, 16:42
Nothing but fond memories.
It's not until I got out that I realised I coulda been a lot worse-behaved. At school now, they can actually do something about behaviour.
Wow Lars, all of mine were just named after towns.... Or school districts.
Oh interesting factoid I forgot, I live in one town, but I went to school in the next because though the one I live in has its own school I am technically in the other one's school district. The border of our yard is the town border.....
That's not the best part. I lived in the "hood" more or less. I definatly went to school with people who did. Plus we lived in the same area that my dad grew up in. My grand parents house was like 5 blocks from my house. Anyway if any of us came home and talked about the antics or problems we had with classmates my dad would half the time say, somethig like "Yeah I went to school with their mother/father they were always a$$holes, guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree." Or (and this always makes me chuckle) "That whole branch of the family is big stupid and uuuuugly, just avoid them."
I hated primary school. And I hated secondary until 6th form, so there you go.
King Henry V
10-04-2005, 18:16
I've been at the same since school since the age of 4. I'm celebrating my tenth anniversary there this January. My primary school years were quite fun and I especially enjoyed my last one.
Mikeus Caesar
10-04-2005, 18:26
My Primary School was Our Lady of Pity Catholic School in West Kirby, Wirral. It was built next to a church, and it was during those three years i probably learnt most of the useful things in my life, like reading and writing. Heck, when i was 5, i was spelling and reading at the level of most adults. I could read words like 'extinction' and 'engineering'. Pretty impressive for a five year old. Unfortunately, since then, i've found that as you get older, the teaching gets steadily worse. I've only just caught up with my maths, as i was a year behind due to a crappy maths teacher, Mr Parandian, who's grasp on English was atrocious.
My primary school years were split between St Gregory's in ealing, St Augustines's (my name, I got a bit of flack for that one) in fulham and the London Oratory school (I still pity myself as a 4th former there.)
The first two schools were great to me. I could do all of it (my parents taught me well) so I could concentrate on not concentrating if you get my drift.
The London Oratory school is still horrible, Lots of rules, lots of pettiness and tonnes of homework from the age of 7 for flip's sake. and we don't even get girls till 6th form. Talk about man destruction as there are about 40 girls between the 300 boys in 6th form...damn my school sucks
Ianofsmeg16
10-04-2005, 19:51
Primary school? Which one?
started at a school in kinloss, then anotherone near their when we moved fro kinloss to lossiemouth, having moved from germany, then went to one in maidstone, then two other ones in kent, then i moved to the isle of man went to Ballasalla primary school for half of year 5 and all of year 6.
whoo that was tiring
People beat me up every day............. because they were jealous. ~:rolleyes:
:dizzy2:
~:handball:
Kaiser of Arabia
10-04-2005, 20:39
ekindegarden through 6 were a ball. Nothing but fond memories. Then all of a sudden you realise theres girls in the class in JH and it all goes to crap.~D
~:cheers:
Pretty much. Though I got hurt. Alot. Lots fights, lotsa wins, a couple losses (bad ones, mind you). Alot harsher than these highschool fights, anyway.
Marcellus
10-04-2005, 20:51
I went to Lavender Primary School for all of my early school years. It was good, I have only happy memories.
School sucks. I bet it did then too although I can`t remember that time very well.
I really enjoyed my time at primary school and still do at secondary, all the teachers were nice and all and i had a really cool class, it was public school so lunch wasnt so nice but thats obly bad thing i remember- it was grove park primary, chiswick
After arriving here in my host country, I ended up in a public school. I could barely speak the language, nobody seemed to care, and that pretty much impeded my attempt to socialize with the natives. But fortunately I ended up befriending some other ‘dirty pakis’, Palestinians and Turks suffering the same problems. Hoodlums though they were. ~:)
I enjoyed primary school. I was always scoring the highest marks in all subjects. Not bad for a kid who had English as a second language (Dutch was my native language). I was considered the "brainbox" and a group of us "brainboxes" hung around together as probably the first "nerds".
BTW: I memorised the poem "IF" and it still guides my life today.
"If you can hold your head when all about you are losing theirs ..."
My Primary School was Our Lady of Pity Catholic School in West Kirby, Wirral. It was built next to a church, and it was during those three years i probably learnt most of the useful things in my life, like reading and writing. Heck, when i was 5, i was spelling and reading at the level of most adults. I could read words like 'extinction' and 'engineering'. Pretty impressive for a five year old. Unfortunately, since then, i've found that as you get older, the teaching gets steadily worse. I've only just caught up with my maths, as i was a year behind due to a crappy maths teacher, Mr Parandian, who's grasp on English was atrocious.
I'd disagree with the teaching statement. I mean my teaching has only got better...bar a year from a complete idiot of an oxford professor for maths teacher (seriously, the man was a genius but didn't have any clue about teaching)
Yeah I was a bit like you mate...though I'm now a psychotic lunatic with a serious urge to heft steel weights around ~D I've been called everything by people who don't have the time, the dedication or the plain insanity to achieve in anything but rapping~;) bah! just live your life, make a few decent strategic choices and work hard
I was big pain in the ass :embarassed:.
but I liked it because I never had to learn and I still had good grades.
(We didn't had English back then ~;))
The bad thing was that some of the teachers there were relatives.
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