We're you at high school in late 90's early 00's?

[MoonBaby1]

If you were in high school in laten90s early 00's did you use these words? Qualert, povert. If so we're in the uk we're you and is this a regional thing?

Fair enough to those went to or teach in / taught in a "XYZ High School"

It's genuinely not something I've come across here and I've done secondary school for 2 children now (different sexes so I've looked at loads of schools and none of them are called High Schools). It's not terminology I've come across in RL. Maybe regional?

I was in secondary/ high school 1997-2002 and it was/is called XX High School. Not a modern term.

Never heard of qualert / povert.

I left high school in West Yorkshire in 2006 and never used them or heard of them.

As for the high/secondary debate, me and my Mum both attended the same high school, but my Nana always used to correct us and say it was a secondary school. It used to really grate on her 😅

Left school in London 1996, never heard of those words.

I left secondary school (we called it high school when I lived in London but secondary when I moved halfway through!) in 1995 and haven’t heard of either.

What do they mean @MoonBaby1 ?

I went to "Place Valley High School" which has been called that since it opened in the 1970s.

Never heard them and I was in high school from1996-2001.

I left school in 2002 and haven’t heard those words in my life.

Never heard those words left in 1997

As you can see @MoonBaby1, none of us have heard of these terms. Can you explain what they mean?

Never heard those words. I went to 4 high schools in 3 different areas of the UK. None of them down south though.

They mean quality (as in something good), ,and poverty (as in something was rubbish) usually said in the thick Suffolk accent.

I left secondary school in 1995 and we didn't call it high school and I don't know those words. At that time I was in Sussex.

Yes I was at high school at that time and I've never heard of those words

West Yorkshire

Left secondary/high school in 2003. School years split between South of England and Glasgow.

Never heard either.

Are you going to tell us what they mean?!

Left secondary school in 2001. East Anglia. Never heard those words.

I've always said high school and still do now

It's not a new thing

Although interestingly my sister in law who lives in the south said to her son 'why you saying high school that's American'. And I said 'we've always said high school'.
Is it maybe a southern thing that they don't say high school there? I don't know

Left secondary in 2002 rural SE England. Never heard either.

I was in high school in Glasgow 97- 2002 and have never heard these words.

Also, I never called it high school then, it was just school as 'what school do you go to'? We just called our school by its name so if it was Kempton Secondary school we'd say 'I go to Kempton'. No additional info required.

I left High School in 2001 and have never heard those terms.
Yes it was 'High Scool' as are the several that I have worked in.

Left in 1998 and never heard them. (East Midlands.)

Started in 1997, in Essex. Never heard them

Don’t forget people in the West Midlands who use the term “mom” because we all think we are American apparently 🙄🙄
I also went to a something HIGH School too.

Our school was called Name High School. We didn’t just add it ourselves. It was its actual name.

Ok

I was at high school in Manchester 1997 till 2001 and have never heard or used these words.