why was my son not offered classical civilisation or latin then

[southeastastra]

is it cause he goes to a shite school?

I went to a really shite school and I was offered Latin.

But I was crap at it

And it was a squillion years ago

( Probably borderline Modern languages back then...)

Do you mean some were but not him, or they were entirely unavailable?

was sort of being tongue in cheek. was never offered at my school in the 80s though

I had Latin And Ancient Greek And Russian/French/Italian/Spanish (70's)

The school ds wants to go to teachers the classics and RE with philosophy, it's not a state school

Eh?

I did sewing and Home Economics too

I failed my sewing O level

[useless through four decades now)

was it really called o level sewing? not textile technology or summat ?

Oh god. Needlework. I hated it so much that I still won't sew on a button or labels in my dc's clothes. They made me make a nightie.

I had to do cooking, woodwork, sewing and child development. We didn't have a grammar school, I think they still used the curriculum from the 1970's I would have liked to have studied classics and latin.

nope. really was sewing or perhaps needlework.
And only the girls could do it. And only the girls took HE too

( I feel a bit like when I have to tell DD that the picture of me when I was little don't look like that because the world was all black and grey back then...)

Mine was an academic grammar school, but we still ahd to do bastard needlework and cookery.

In my day it was O level Needlework. I used to spend needlework lessons reading Paris Match. And there was O level Domestic Science (none of this new-fangled food technology malarkey) for those the school deemed incapable of O level Latin.

My sister did Latin and Classics at our (not great ) state comp in the late 90s. It was available when I was there in the 80s too.

Was/Is a big school though with tons of staff, so could offer quite a lot of courses

I made a suit

It was a bit like this I was super fly. Not
I must have had my Queen Mother impression pretty finely honed for one so young.

At least you didn't have to do farking child development. There were no boys in the class at all

oohhh
just remembered.
When you started needlework, the first term was making your summer dress.

If you were crap at it you had to wear a shit dress all year

My high school (ex secondary modern) offered such enlightend and highbrow subjects as typing, office practice, childcare and domestic science for girls and woodwork, metalwork and tech drawing for boys. Girls were unable to take boys subjects and vice versa.

You were only allowed to do any of the aforementioned subjects if you were below set 2 for maths and english.

I wanted to take tech drawing as an option but was not allowed to because I was a girl and fairly good at maths and english.

The lack of choice and 'segregation' still annoys me!

I presume this relates to my other thread and yes dd goes to an independent and Latin is compulsory up to year 9.
Did Latin (and what was definately called Needlework) myself at what is now a shite school way back in the 70's but Latin went all out of fashion in state schools after that. Is coming back though - at least one of our local state schools is offering it. No chance of 'Textiles' of 'Food Science' at DDs school - which I actually think is a pity - but still wouldn't recommend at GCSE.

Ahh, that's it, it was an ex-secondary modern, my sister left a few years before me from the shite hole, she had to do typing!! I did get to do woodwork though, I made a box The whole school was a pile of crap, 5 years of my life I'll never get back.

hee hee!
Most of the options subjects followed by students at my school (Academy) did not exist when I was at school; things like media studies, resistant materials, European studies and IT!

They do offer Classical Civilisation at ds1's (state) secondary, but not Latin.

resistant materials? What the hells that? teach them how to avoid doing the washing up? Experiements on clothes to see how long they can be worn before they pull themselves off and place themselves in the washing machine?

is classical civ what used to be called ancient history?

Classical civilisation is stuff like ancient greece and rome I think.

Resistant materials is woodwork/metalwork and classical civilisation is ancient history.