Things you did at school you wouldn’t be allowed to do now.

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I’ve only just remembered this. At primary we played ‘basketball’. 2 kids would stand at either ends of the hall standing on a chair holding a wicker bin to catch the balls in (all wearing pants and vest). In fact I can remember standing on chairs a lot, now banned of course.
I can also remember going to sing at the hospital sitting in the boot of a teachers reliant Robin in secondary.

Our history teacher would make a pupil stand in the bin if they didn't have the appropriate text book. He would say ' you miserable creature, you horrid little girl how I despise you' . No one complained. I never forgot my text book. I got 100 lines for losing my school hat. We smoked dope with the young Latin teacher in his house. Having had a few barley wines. My friend had sex with, actually she went out with him. Another girl married the geography teacher when she left school. They stayed married until his recent death.

Did PE in our knickers in first year. In the summer we had to jog to the local park in a state of undress to play tennis. We had woods by the school and peeping Toms were always being caught.

Had a (female)! PE teacher who us 14yo used to call a perv behind her back because she was always checking that we were wearing the thick uniform knickers that @Lunde is probably talking about.

It turns out we were right! 30 years later, I read an article in a national newspaper about her being imprisoned for paedophilia!

Vests and pants for pe in infants.
British bulldog in the playground (and falling over a getting grit stuck in your knee)
Singing hyms and reciting the lords prayer in assemby every day.
Walking to and from school by yourself from age 7.
Teachers being able to hit pupils,ruler,slipper etc.
Pribably a lot more freedom with science experiments, metal work etc.
More school trips than my DC had, as schools not as worried about health and safety , insurnace etc.
Im early 50s so not ancient (or perhaps i am!)

In my husbands secondary they had to all shower together after PE with a teacher watching 😳
i remember teachers getting drunk when we went to France on a trip, and they also gave us a can of lager to share as well, we were only 12/13!

Nobody of a certain age could wear what they wanted.

She was actually thanking me for it as the alternative would have been for me to report her to her terrifying form mistress and she was already in enough trouble with her so learning a sonnet for every time I caught her up to no good (sneaking in to the science prep room because she didn't want to be outside, smoking behind the bike sheds and trying to sneak out to meet the boys from local boys school at break time). SHe also used to try and repeat the same sonnet each time...

She reformed in O levle year and then went on to Oxford to read English lit so it was actually quite useful for her.

Well, no @Londonmummy66 - the alternative would have been for you to mind your own business. You didn’t have to go along with the unhealthy system of kids policing kids, you chose to, and you enjoyed it, adding your own little creative flourish.

I doubt very much whether you had anything at all to do with that child’s academic success. Whatever she said to you - people tend to try and keep it fairly light and positive at these events - what she remembered about you was that you were a punitive and priggish prefect. I wouldn’t be too proud of that.

Well congratulations on your excellent psychological skills for being able to identify that about a complete stranger - you also sound as if you have grown into a charming individual so your school clearly did an excellent job..... not.

a) thank you, it wasn’t difficult;

b) there’s no relevance there to the topic we’re discussing, just a pure ad hominem attack - but no, I didn’t go to charm school, nor do I feel the need to sugarcoat anything for your benefit. I suspect we would dislike each other intensely should we meet in real life - and based on your posts, I’m comfortable with that.

I think from about year 10 we were allowed off school grounds at lunchtime, to go and get chips, or go to someone's house and not come back for afternoon lessons!
We also had a river at the bottom of the school field where everyone would go and smoke, even the teachers.
We were also attached to a leisure centre so they used to employ us as 6th formers to stop the younger kids from coming in and buying chocolate from the vending machines, because teachers didn't want to give up their breaks.

Making Scotch eggs and deep frying them, watching for the oil to become smoking hot before lowering them in to cook (in a wire basket).
Making tea for the teachers at lunchtime.
Eating aniseed balls from the sweet shop on the way home (2 buses across London).

Me too - you sound like the class goody goody

😂 that’s as wide of the mark as I’d have expected tbh.

Making a slide on the ice that had accumated from freezing slow.

My sister loved this but slipped and fell and broke her nose

Every lesson either copying out of a book or from the board.

Our school 'prom' was probably the highlight - early 90s.

My best mate was lead singer of a band formed especially for the occasion - banging out 'Cocaine' by Eric Clapton on stage in the main hall; then a cabaret featuring two of the lads from
our year doing the 'does she go?!' sketch from Monty Python, and two male English teachers dressed in drag performing RESPECT by Aretha Franklin 😂

Oh do leave it - you are getting very boring

Smoking in the 6th form common room. The nuns provided the ashtrays.

This isn’t about what I did but what was done to me. By mistake I rinsed my palette in the wrong sink after an art class, and the Art teacher with her foul temper sloshed a glass of water in my face. Nowadays that would be assault and she’d be finished.

Going to buy fags for my art teacher!

I remember history lessons at primary in 1987 being like that, copying paragraph after paragraph from the board. Mind-numbing boredom. And in another year, I was told off for copying word for word from a textbook. And I thought I was doing the right thing, when the task was to "find something out".

With one primary school teacher, her specialty with naughty children was making them stand on the table. On one occasion, she did this in another teacher's class, calling him a "horrid little boy" for good measure; his crime was probably fidgeting or whispering.

@Readyforarefresh I can imagine my shoes being put in the bin, I used to get in trouble for playing with the Velcro on them. My teacher threw a boy's shoe across the room when he kept playing with it during story time.

In my last year of Primary me and 2 friends did a can can show
Basically we wore off shoulder blouses and long skirts with stockings that we flashed before the finale which involved us turning our backs to the audience and bending over to show our frilly knickers
My Mum actually helped choreograph

What is now year 4 - our teacher 'let' us go down to the local shops to buy her cigarettes at lunch time! We could spend the change on sweets.
Incredible!