What was your life like at primary school??

**Ice** · 10-04-2005, 00:14

Originally Posted by Copperhaired Berserker!

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

**lars573** · 10-04-2005, 03:50

Originally Posted by ghost908

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

) 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.

**Kaiser of Arabia** · 10-04-2005, 20:39

Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny

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.

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.

**Viking** · 10-04-2005, 21:03

School sucks. I bet it did then too although I can`t remember that time very well.

**lars573** · 10-04-2005, 17:11

Originally Posted by Uesugi Kenshin

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."

**BDC** · 10-04-2005, 17:15

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.