Back in time for school 90’s (BBC2)

[ParrotsAteThemAll]

Anyone else watching this and realising how unhealthy we were back then?! No wonder I’ve got a terrible attitude towards food when I ate pizza and chips every day washed down with a can of tango then straight to the tuck shop to spend the remainder of my money on sweets! We did two PE sessions A WEEK and most of those were bunked off to go up town and smoke!

And my god Jet, she hasn’t aged a day! Definitely a good advertisement for healthy living! If only I’d listened…

Enjoying seeing the start of technology, I remember how exciting it was to be able to play on the school PC! Of course no internet so just messed about on Paint and Solitaire.

DH was at secondary in the 70s. In his words the teachers were all 60s hippies grown up and very chilled, or very strict ex world war 2 soldiers.

This was my experience of school throughout the 70s and 80s. Teaching was pretty hit and miss in all honesty.

But one thing that struck me about the 'hippy' methods shown and my own now adult apprehension of experiencing them is that yeah kids prancing around in leotards and net curtains to a Clannad soundtrack was maybe a bit naff but it was all done in good faith and actually, trying to get kids to have truly creative responses to the world around them is not such a bad thing, compared to these days of isolation and send you home if you're wearing trainers, even if perhaps they eat fewer sweeties these days.

@Meredusoleil

Just looked up the cigarettes. They were called Consulate 😆

The first cigarette I smoked was a Consulate! Weirdly I can taste it now and I haven’t smoked since I was in my 20’s!

I too stumbled across this tonight. 1990s would have loved to seen earlier episodes pure magic.

I went to secondary school in 1989 and we all ate chips with salad cream.

I totally recognise the military/calm 60s teaching style of the older teachers We had some young teachers whereby I think the trend was to be a bit wacky/out there but I was never quite sure where I stood with them.

They filmed this at my school where I was in the 90s. Bit weird seeing myself as so historical.

My secondary was really quite rough. I had a special mention in the newsletter when I gained my degree, because I am (even now) in the minority of previous students there to go to university it was like Grange Hill.
However, the food was really good!! A salad bar, a toastie bar (cheese and pizza topping toasted sandwiches being the favourite choice). jacket potato station and then an choice of “the usual” curry/sausage roll/chips and beans service station.
Always followed by a lion bar or a toffee crisp.
Happy Days.

I remember the constant tv ads about AIDS, you really could not escape it. It scared the hell out of me. We also lived under the threat of a nuclear war breaking out at any moment. This was more the 1980s though.
My English teacher wore a CND badge and spoke about Greenpeace and the like. Teachers were allowed to have an opinion then.
Both dh and I said after watching the 80s programme how much propaganda there was.
I really felt like I was either going to die a slow painful death from catching AIDS from the dentist ( that was rammed down our throats that you can catch it there you know) or from a nuclear war because the Russians were totally unstable and so too was Regan.
It was all bullshit. The chances of me catching AIDS was minute.
Think that's why I don't fall for much hype now. I don't trust any government.
PE at the schools I went to was full on. Every one had to run the cross country and it really was across the country. The school was surrounded by miles of fields and woodland and we had to literally run several miles. Secondary school was very competitive. The teachers made it clear you were there to win. Looking back I don't remember any over weight kids at all. We also had the full gymnasium with the horse boxes to leapover, ropes to climb and rings and those high swings which were just a metal bar to do gymnastic routines on.
Everyone just got on with it. No wonder I was thin then. Our core strength must have been amazing.

Wow, never thought anyone would reminisce about the ex army reject teachers in a positive way. We had one for a level history who snoozed throughout our lessons. Eventually we got a proper teacher in Easter of second year who was horrified we'd spent the previous 18 months copying out paragraphs about the Weimar Republic from a 30 year old textbook. He did his best but even with intensive coaching the highest grade anyone from that class got was a D. We were comprehensive kids so our parents couldn't get us an in to anything with shit a levels. That old cunt fucked things for us and no mistake.

omg ... you're all so young

@Onlinedilema the AIDS ads were very scary, I remember me and my DS thinking it was going to wipe out the human population!

The teachers in my school just cruised by, there was no competition from other schools as we were a rural school 20 miles from the next secondary school. The majority of pupils were from farming backgrounds and knew they’d go straight into the family business when school was done, they barely tried and most didn’t turn up for their GCSE’s. The teachers were fighting a losing battle! The music teacher either player 60’s music at us or made us sing it, I don’t remember playing an instrument!

On the plus side when there was a hint of snow the school would shut down so the buses wouldn’t get stuck in the hills!

After I left in the late 90’s the head teacher retired and the new one had a huge shake up and got rid of loads of staff and started doing well.

So grateful I found out about this programme. Have binge watched it with the DC and even DS15 was vaguely interested. That never happens!