To ask - If your school was torn to shreds on MN …

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How would you respond ?

1. Make yourself a brew
2. Make something stronger
3. Be glad that you came away from it with 3 CSEs

a bit lightheaded perhaps, but my recent experience

I'd have a chuckle, my high school was pretty dodgy though we did like to say at least we were better than the next nearest high school where they'd had kids bringing in knives. It was mostly pot, we had a particular toilet block the teachers avoided because someone was usually smoking in it. Had a laugh one class smelling pot coming in through the open window, teacher ignored it. Our year 11 physics teacher quit half way through the year and his replacement refused to teach us. Another teacher who left after announcing the class had driven her to quit. There were a couple of students who liked to exit classes through the window (ground floor) before the lesson was over and a teacher who liked throwing the black board erasers. A friend once stuck vodka in for a laugh. This was all many years ago. The school actually got decent results though.

The school my kids are at has been ripped to shreds on social media in the past 6 months.
It's not an image of the school I recogonise - so I've just laughed at it.
If it had been written as "my child has experienced..... please help" I might have had some sympathy, but when it is written as "no child in this school will recieve an education and all the staff should be sacked" it comes across as vindictive.

It’s not really “your school” in the sense as so many years have passed it’s not really relevant, I’d probably just scroll on by for me there would be nothing to respond too, I left school 15 years ago, I know nothing of the current state.

I don't understand this thread at all, am I missing something? I went to secondary in the very early nineties - I couldn't care less what people thought of it now as my kids aren't there. But you didn't even go there so you were offended on behalf of your partner who isn't even on MN and so didn't see it?

lol am not really offended just surprised that’s all !

in all seriousness - it’s not me it’s my partner as I was cough too young to do CSEs/O levels so haven’t idea if 3 CSEs is any good as I did GCSEs

I definitely did O levels 😁
CSEs were graded 1-5, with a 5 seen as equivalent to a C at O level. O levels were graded E - A, with C and above being a pass.

Well my school was rubbish, but I left in 1984 so 40 years ago!! I hope it's better now.

I have heard my ds school criticised on here though, some of it fair, some not.

1984 does NOT seem like 40 years ago ..

Ah thank you

Since leaving in 1996 my old school has burned down, been rebuilt, had nearly 30 years worth of pupils, teachers & support staff cycle through, seen government changes, curriculum changes, cultural changes and everything in between.

It's an entirely different place than I attended for better or worse, & has no bearing on who I am or anything I've done since.

So TLDR: wouldn't affect me other than 'oooh I went there'

I wouldn't give a flying fuck.

I hated it there. Where I went doesn't define who I am.

I would probably join in and write a lengthy post sticking the richly deserved boot in.

My school was atrocious, luckily it is not there anymore. One of the best days of my life was walking out those gates knowing I'd never have to go back.

I guess it’s at least 4 years since he left school so I wouldn’t bother even for a minute.

A CSE 1 was the equivalent to an O level C. Definitely not a 5 lol. A 5 was the lowest grade.

In answer to your question, there were 2 dire schools in my town at opposing sides of the town. Mine survived. The other was demolished. Would I care if mine had been demo’d? No. I don’t live in the town. But no way would my dd have gone there. Over my dead body.

It has improved. No Ofsted in those days. But it has a ‘requires improvement’ grade. Never got more than that. It would have been in special measures in the 1980s had ofsted existed… except there were no special measures in those days. It was just put up and shut up.

I remember we striking a couple of times over the YTS scheme. Some leaflets were passed around and it was a general student strike. Happy days.

Well I know you’re at least in your 50s!! My brother was in the last cohort of O levels/CSEs, and my cousin was in the first cohort of GCSEs, that’s how I know.

In answer to the question, mine lost its 6th form when Sheffield went tertiary so when management were suggesting academic staff could develop links with their old 6th forms, I was able to duck out!

Mine has struggled for a good few years now - not terrible, but not great either, which is sad, as it did a good job in the 80s.

The school I went to was awful, drugs, pregnancies (one lad in my year got his younger cousin pregnant) knives, fights, fires. Came away with 14 GCSEs.
school was bulldozed a couple of years ago. Where you went to school isn’t a reflection on what you make of yourself.

Unless you as a pupil were responsible for the school why would you be bothered? Ive never seen my old school mentioned on here but if I did I wouldn't think it was anything to do with me, of course I'd read the thread out of interest but not sure why I need a cup of tea or G & T to do it 😀

I couldn't care less.

I'd be more concerned if the school my child was currently at or was due to go to got torn to shreds.

I'd be very amused that anyone had heard of it. It was pretty rough and quite small. I'd want a chat about the various teachers, what they were like, a lot of them were alcoholic, some nice, some terrifying, I had some favourites. Most are dead now.

If you've made it to adulthood and are educated enough to support yourself, I wouldn't really worry about what anyone thinks of the school. If anything, surviving a 'bad' school and making a decent life for yourself anyway is something to be proud of.

I also went to school pre ofsted. It was one of those schools that wasn't actually that rough by the standards of some, but had very low aspirations. I think that was very common then - working class kids not expected to do well. When Ofsted came in it was in special measures. I actually think of it quite fondly

Well I know my school was crap so I’d probably agree with them.

My school was shit, it would likely be me testing it to shreds.

I wouldn't give a shit.