to ask if you preferred primary or secondary school?

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I loved primary, didn't like much secondary much because of massive pressure from school re exams and other stuff too. DH and my dad both say they preferred secondary to primary.

Primary school was fine. Secondary school was hell on earth and I was bullied to the point that I was losing my hair and I was terrified to leave the house in case I saw any of the girls involved. Over the course of two years I was beaten up several times, a chunk of my hair pulled out when one of the girls grabbed it as she was walking past and someone set fire to my hair in the lunch queue. I had my nose burst and my glasses broken, my Home Economics cooking taken and ruined, rumours started about me... it felt like it would never end.

It only got better when the ringleader got pregnant and left at 16. I've seen her facebook profile and even a decade later she's still an aggressive little cunt.

Thoroughly enjoyed primary school, the friends I made in p1 are still friends.
High school was brilliant too, obviously the usual teen issues but I have nothing but fond memories of my time at both primary and secondary and life long friends.

I did primary, middle and high. Loved primary and middle but hated high school as was the bottom of top set and spent the whole time not really understanding any lessons.

Secondary wasn't great as I went to a grammar school so the pressure was really piled on and my self esteem was shit but I had some great friends and it was massively better than primary school where I was quite badly bullied and didn't really have any proper friends.

Primary, definitely. Pre-National Curriculum so we did a lot of fun, creative stuff. It also didn't matter that I was quiet, whereas a lot of teasing went on at secondary. I had my group of friends, but primary was so much better.

Primary

Primary. I think.

Much prefer work though than education. Even at uni I had this desire to get on with real life.

Secondary. Primary was very cliquey. I remember once being picked for something but was asked to forego it for dome reason or other.

Secondary but I HATED sixth form.

hated both.
secondary was slightly better, because overworked teachers would hardly remember your name, so wouldn't be phoning parents for every 'forgotten' homework.

Primary school. It was more fun than secondary, and I think a lot more laid back than it would be these days. Also I didn't have a uniform in primary school.

I think both were just right for me at the time.

Primary was tiny and lovely.

Secondary was more "challenging" but I was robust enough to cope. Occasionally I came across bullies but I was a bloody minded sort who stuck up to them so mostly they left me alone. I was also one of the brightest there so that helped!

Oh and I was in the school band which was the best fun and left me with a skill I have been able to pick up and enjoy in later life.

Ha tough one.

Hates primary school.bullied and no friends.

Finally made friends at secondary but nine of them were in any of my lesson groups so was pretty lonely in class and stuck with a bunch of people who had no time for me with an occasional crossover with one friend.

I'd say secondary based on the fact I at least had someone to eat lunch with there.

I wasn't partulicularly happy at any of my two primary and middle schools, but I loved my secondary school. I passed to get into a convent school, with beautiful buildings and grounds. It was idyllic to me - I have happy memories of eating lunch on the lawn by the shrubbery in summer, or wandering through the woods behind the sports field, and through the old nuns' cemetery (we weren't really supposed to go in the woods and cemetery, but we did). And absolutely no forced showers. Happy days.

Had a thoroughly miserable last few years of primary. Secondary wasn't perfect by a long stretch, but far better. Terrible school academically, but me and my sister both did well there and remember it with a lot of fondness.

Sixth form was better again socially, though university was where I really thrived.