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.

That'll be because of the contact with mercury. 😂

Smoking whilst doing Cross Country. Pointing blow torches at each other in DT

On of our Teachers got us to illegally buy some Beatles (I think) album on a school trip to Russia and then smuggle them back to the UK. He gave us what we paid for them, around £10 each I think and he sold them for thousands
Apparently you couldn't get them outside Russia (pre Glasnost) so were worth loads.
Another teacher on the school trip was too afraid of changing money on the Black Market so got us to do it for her

"Cross Country Run" at secondary school with no PE teacher with us . It's in inverted commas because it was suburban Bristol, with very little running and a lot of smoking.
A kilt pin forming part of the uniform. It was a rigorously enforced rule. A nearby school.had an incident where two of their pupils had a fight and a kilt pin was used as a weapon. Both schools made the news.
Appearing on TV without our permission. Our school was on local news every year on founder's day (private school) and on Panorama once.

A chosen few girls were allowed to listen to the latest charts on a Thursday lunchtime with a teacher who had a radio in his classroom.

In exchange for kissing him.

Then getting tickled by him/trapped and rubbed by his beard in the store cupboard if we were too loud/cheeky.

He hated most of the boys. Shouted violently at most of them. Unsurprisingly.

Same. Duke of Edinburgh Ward 1984/5. North York Moors and Northern Pennines. And a mini bus to take us there, that consisted of two wooden benches facing each other. Not a seatbelt in sight.

We had this, he also did single cigarettes for, I think, 15p each!

British Bulldog - fucking brutal.

Also one of the nuns used to tell us we should bath in our clothes in case we saw ourselves naked.

Call a man in a dress a transvestite.

British Bulldog still happens at the school where I work; it's just been rebranded as 'Chicken or Hero'. Literally the same game I remember from the 1980s...

Class teacher taking 15 ten and eleven year olds orienteering, setting us loose in a country park and expecting to see us back at the minibus 90 minutes later. I don’t recall anyone ever checking we could read a map!

We’d always stop for a bag of chips on the way home.

Our headmistress nun lectured us constantly on the dangers of boys and I clearly remember in one assembly her telling us we could only sit on a boys knee if we placed a telephone directory across their lap first. Mental.

Certainly things have changed since my mother was at school. I have a picture of her and a school friend aged around 13 (1939?) The headteacher is standing between them with his arms around their shoulders with a cigarette in his mouth !

Yes, we used to muck about with mercury at my school, including floating half crowns in it. (that makes me sound soo ancient)
We used to have all sorts of dangerous chemicals and explosions, and an asbestos mats for the Bunsen burners.
We dissected dead animals in Biology.

The sixth formers had their own smoking room.

Playing netball and gym in school blouse and navy blue bloomer type knickers!

In secondary school we reported to our form teacher who took the register, and then split up to our various specialisms. Several times I logged in and then got my coat and went off into the city to the cinema or the shops. I did this about every 2/3 months and was never caught. Even if your absence was noticed in the later class it was assumed your form teacher would have made a note.

When we were given a detention as part of a group (eg being were we shouldnt be) I never turned up.

@rainbowunicorn22 A guillotine in the corridor - wow, your school had some dangerous equipment. Were there many headless casualties? (Sorry, I couldn't resist it! I know what you mean. We called it a "paper trimmer".)

I remember on a previous thread of this sort, someone mentioned a home made guillotine which a teacher used to decapitate a Sindy doll.

I feel like you went to the same school I did. It was horrible.

On my first day at primary school the teacher showed us 5 year olds a reel of duct tape & a length of rope.

We were told us that if any of us spoke in class without permission we'd have our mouths taped shut and if anybody got out of their seats they'd be tied up in the corner until it was time to go home.

So my school life got off to a relaxed & happy start 😀

Oh another one I forgot.

If a child stomped their feet or scraped their feet on the floor the teacher would put the child’s shoes in the bin.

3 to a seat on a coach

Lifts with teachers

Going to a teacher's house for afternoon tea. Admittedly that was the German language assistant who was female, but I don't think it would be allowed now.

Smoke

Lots of boys had Swiss army hunting knives in their pocket.

The sixth formers went to the pub with teachers at lunchtime.

Sleazy ancient teacher was in charge of issuing new exercise books when your current one had filled up. Your subject teacher would sign and you would have to queue up in the music room after school and visit him in the supply cupboard, one by one with the door closed.

Sometimes a new book was withheld until a kiss or a cuddle was given (girls) or a slap with a ruler (boys). How parents and authorities didn’t get involved, I will never know.

At 11 n late 80s I went with my Dad on his home visits as a social worker, remember sitting on someone's sofa while they disclosed abuse to him and him saying dont tell your Mym about that when we get home.