to think this memory of infant school is a bit dodgy

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I have a really strong memory from infants, when I was 5 or 6 (so about 28 years ago) of us having to do a 'Science Experiment' in class. Our teacher was a female and seemed elderly to me at the time but was probably actually in her 50s.

The experiment was to find a partner and then touch tongues with that partner. I chose my best female friend and I don't know if anyone chose a member of the opposite sex.

Looking back it seems really weird, I can't imagine why we had to do it, and everyone I tell about it looks at me like . It's not a false memory by the way - I know it definitely happened!

Did any teachers ever make you do anything like this?

Maybe they were looking for worms!! They all used to do it before you went to big school.

Surely even stranger are those communal showers they used to make us use. It was compulsory. Boys in one room, girls in the other. And the teacher used to stand there to make sure you had been in!!

It was madness but it happened. Sorry if Ive said too much, I will be getting lynched also before you know it!!

Fucking bunch of bullies! Can't believe how some of you reacted. To the OP, join baby centre, it is way better!

And the pile-on continues...

:(

I started school in 1959, so I'm a lot older than most of you (I think). Nothing like that happened at infant school, but I remember clearly that we had a standard-issue paedo living in our street. He was left alone but kids were warned not to go near him, but not why. We all knew why, of course, what he was doing and to whom. How disgraceful that he was allowed to molest children. Never reported or prosecuted. Different times.

At junior school was another standard-issue perv, given to wandering into the girls' changing room after swimming, his bulgy eyes out on stalks. Again we knew what he was, and my godmother made me a sort of "changing gown" out of a bath towel, that I could hide under to avoid his repulsive gaze. He was brutal too - he caned anyone who couldn't jump over the vaulting horse or dive off the springboard, and bashed a girl over the head repeatedly with a polystyrene float for failing to try and swim (she was terrified of the water - and of him). I was "lucky" to be a favourite of his as I liked gym and swimming. I escaped his attentions, though thank God.

All this is quite genuine, as I believe the OP to be. The fifties and sixties and I imagine the seventies from what I've heard, really were a different world, and a very tough one sometimes for children.

My first thought on reading the OP was that would be very very odd because around 28 years ago we were gripped by total paranoia about AIDS - people thought you could catch it by being in the same room as someone then and there was mass hysteria about it.

let alone the genuine things that COULD be caught from an experiement like that

I think the OP has a confused memory, i cannot fathom any reasonable explanation at all for that "experiment". FWIW I do not think she is a troll looking for kicks, but this does serve as a reminder that ANYONE can read this board and may get off on some peoples stories. As long as folk are aware then they can choose whether to post or not

Its a real shame the OP was scared off. I dont know whats happening to this place.

I really hope so.