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

[TwillTrousers]

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.

In year 7 we had massive red PE knickers and a white vest. We all looked like we had red nappies on.

The boys got to wear shorts.

That's unfair, at least we had a crappy skirt over the top.

We had a t-shirt but I wrecked it by pulling it down all the time to try and cover my arse. I hated school, and hated PE/sports even more.

Vest an knickers were our PE kit at infants school in the 70’s thankfully when we went to juniors we were allowed to wear a leotard

My DD told me in year 6 (a couple of years ago) that she’d been litter picking in the playground at break time. I asked her what she’d done wrong to be given that task - it was a punishment when I was at school! She said nothing, that she volunteered and there’s actually a race to the litter pickers and bin bags at break

Relationships with teachers in 6th form - no one seemed to be that bothered, seems completely unbelievable now!

I cannot for the life of me think why people were surprised that girls dropped out of sports ASAP....

We had a teeny short skirt but only for hockey, tennis and netball.
Any indoor sport, was just the knickers. So basketball and PE, and dance.
The boys got to wear shorts for everything.

Oh we did Red Rover too! We were brutes looking back on it! Once we'd moved past hopscotch and elastics we were feral!

Ah. Dance was a leotard, but other indoor sports got the skirt. Luckily it was a girls school so no boys.

We played Red Rover and British Bulldogs every day on the concrete playground.
My kids were banned from playing it on their school field..

I genuinely think the reason I hated exercise and the gym for so long (I go to classes now, begrudgingly, after finding a lovely all female gym) is because I associate exercise with humiliation thanks to secondary school PE.

I also for a long time assumed that gym instructors must be sadists, because every PE teacher I’ve ever met is at least a little bit psychotic. Mine were total bullies who sucked up to the pupils who were bullies, because they were their “netball girls”

Or why more women have issues with body image than men.

Concrete for us too. We had tough knees in the 80s.

I know! The changing rooms were the worst. We were forced to shower. Had to hang up our towels and queue for the shower naked. If the teacher was not looking, we would run through the showers with our towels and sprinkle water on ourselves.
The teachers kept a shower register, and if you were on your period you did get excused with a 'P' on the register. One teacher wanted proof and would get us to show her bloody pads. This was in the 90s too.
I hope things are so much better for teen girls now.

Sitting on rows of chairs on top of rows of desks in assembly, not sure why, I think we were singing or playing recorders. Chairs often toppled off backwards

Some non academic girls went to the school house ( a terraced house which the school rented ) to learn housewife skills ! Basically cleaning and cooking . Mid sixties.

Jesus. At least we got to shower in our swimsuits and after other sports we just whacked the impulse on.

The ice cream man at our school, sold single cigarettes for 20p each on the quiet.

Soldering irons, smoking, walking out of school whenever you didn't fancy a lesson, is bunking off so easy nowadays for the kids I've no idea!

Get shagged by the teachers

(not me but a few dirty bastards at my school shagged some of the 6th years(

Ah, the late book. The IRA was a godsend for a kid in the early nineties in Brum. They never seemed to look up whether your 'bombscare so the bus was diverted' excuse was true.

As an adult I do realise that was appalling of us.

Smoking. We had a proper smoking area at sixth form college but it wasn’t mandatory to smoke there, you could also do it walking between buildings as long as you didn’t do it inside.

Unsupervised wandering around big cities on school trips where none of us spoke the language with instructions to meet back in a few hours at a particular place. My sister got a tattoo on one of these trips when she was about 14 and was meant to be seeing the sights.

We were sent off by school to do work experience abroad at 16 for multiple weeks, no teacher accompanied us. We were meant to be staying with exchange families but mine had booked a holiday, so I discovered on arrival that I had nowhere to stay and ended up floating between my friends’ partners’ houses. I remember being given an address for work somewhere a surprisingly long distance from where I was staying and having to get multiple buses to get there, and getting hopelessly lost with very little money. The freedom was amazing though and the school didn’t monitor us at all, just gave us vague instructions on how to get there on the Eurostar and local trains and the address of a work placement. Mum says I left as a teenager and came back all grown up (and speaking the language very well), it was an incredible experience. But probably very lucky nothing went wrong!

Shower in a row, whilst being watched to check we wash our hair.

Get taken unaccompanied in the headteacher's car to A&E.

Have our skirts measured with a ruler.

Blow into and chop up a ?pig heart.

Wander down to the chip shop during our lunch.

Oh I'd forgotten about the bombscare hoaxes at school! We had at least 2 a year to get people out of lessons.
Kids even did them from the school payphone in the maths stairwell to the school office.
Setting fire alarms off all the time as well.