if you were to redo your school days , what would you do differently?

[DionneB]

i would make sure i worked hard in all of my subjects that i did.

Go to a different school.

I would resolutely not give a shit about what anybody else thought of me.

I spent so long trying to fit in, that I forgot to be myself.

Work harder and ignore the arseholes who disrupted everyone and everything!

Fancy someone else. The boy I loved for six year turned out to be Gay.

I’d turn up for lessons and actually listen 🙈

I would maybe bunk off just a bit more than I did, I think I put in 20 days in 5th year, that was 19 too many

Have more fun and be a lot less goody. It didn't make a difference to my overall life despite all the warnings it would

Stand up for myself more. Ask my grandparents for help in the areas my parents failed.
When I think of the results I got with only turning up for 20 days of school in my last exam year I wonder how much better I could have done if I had applied myself and dealt with the horrific bullying

I'd go to the same school. I'd work harder. If i could have had a better mum my school days would have been great

go to the sports school rather than the posher one and pick all the subjects i loved rather than the ones in was told would get me far. I've done fine.. but could have done equally fine being great at something I loved.

I would get my head down and learn.

Relaxed a bit. I stessed about GCSEs etc to the point of an eating disorder. Got great GCSE results but nearly died

Take different level subjects. Maybe not go to the same school as my high flying, head girl, Oxbridge entrant dsis!

Let the boy I was crazy about kiss me when he tried. I'm still not sure what I was thinking that day!

Put more in to learning foreign languages.
Not give a shit what anyone thought.
Do sport because I liked it even if I was crap at it.
Report the little shits who abused me verbally everyday in a sexual way.

Taken mfl a levels, or maths over physics. Listened to my deputy head who had a thing about ladylike behaviour. I have asd and can be clueless. With hindsight she was lovely and trying to help. I’d have coped better transitioning to the workplace if I had.

I'd go to a different school. The one I went to, which wasn't really my choice - it was my parents', was crap and I didn't do very well. Fortunately, I went somewhere much better for sixth form and got decent A levels.

I'd also work harder. I pissed about and was far more interested in being cool and funny than in doing my best.

Not let the bullies win!!

I'd ask if I could go into voluntary detention at the end of the school day to do my homework. Home wasn't the best place for this.

I'd go to a school that didn't have careers advisors who fell about laughing if you mentioned applying to Oxbridge before steering you back to 'the sort of college that people from this kind of school belong to'.

I have no idea what would have made it better. I have no happy memories, didn't get how to make friends, teachers constantly saying I was under achieving (they were right). In hindsight I suspect I was suffering from quite acute depression through my teens. This was 40 years ago. Things have improved.

Revise for my O'Levels

i'd have stuck at my original a level choices.

I switched one subject halfway through and self taught myself the new subject. On what planet was that sensible.

I would go to one of the other two secondary schools that there were in our town. I just always had the feeling that I would have been happier at them.

There was nothing really wrong with the school I did go to, and I suppose that my outlook may be coloured by the fact that I did get bullied there, which could, of course, have happened anywhere.

It is just a feeling I was never really able to shake.