Back in time for school?!

[Mummysharkdoodoodoo]

Has anyone been watching it? Do you think some of the children are rude 🙈🙈

Makes me so mad 😂😩

the loony HT wore a black degree robe

So did ours! He never wore a mortarboard, but swooped through the corridors like a cut-price Dracula!

OMG! Schaden Did you go to our school?!!!!!!! All the good teachers left when he came in, in my 2nd year, and the whole school went down the pan

Are you in the NE ppeat?

If so, we could meet and compare skull dents and knuckle callouses . . .

No , I've got cousins in Doncs. though! I'm between mid westerly France and London and Sth Eng. ! If you ever go down to the smoke we could meet there.

Only the RE teacher used to throw stuff , I managed to duck !!

Aaah sorry , don't you ever come dahn sarf? It is tricky to meet friends because I move about sth Eng. DM is 90 so needs quite a bit of caring. I have to give dsis a hand and the kids and gc are in London!

Ive been watching it. Has it finished though. Does not seem to be on tonight.

I can remember have blackboard rubbers thrown at me especially by the maths teacher who told me I was stupid! I am still hopeless at maths and a column of figures brings me out in a sweat.

In the last one I can't understand how they said in the 60's there were no dinner ladies. I was in school until 1971 and we definitely had dinner ladies. Was it different across the country?

I just looked at the Radio Times dotty it's not on !! I don't know if the series has finished, I was enjoying it

mydog It's so odd why some teachers think that brutal treatment HELPS children

Aaah sorry , don't you ever come dahn sarf?

We do occasionally on our hols, but generally by the time we've washed the woad off, and brushed up on our Linguaphone Course ("Cocker-ney fer beginners! Learn 'ow ter use yer Norf-an'-Sarf!") and sewn all the pearly buttons onto our rough-linen-and-animal-pelt clothing so that we blend in with the Natives (Pearly Monarch Button Kit! No-on will ever know your from T'North!), the fortnight's over.

It's back on next week - they seem to be taking a break for Winterwatch this week.

It's so odd why some teachers think that brutal treatment HELPS children

Education and the Church have always been the refuges of the power mad, ppeat

I'm enjoying it and watching on catch up with my dds. I think the kids are a lovely bunch for 15 year olds. It's good to see teens being depicted in a positive light.

Hooray thanks missingthesea

Schade I want to grow woad to dye a white tablecloth I've just discovered

Yes true about power but it's also bullying I suppose which is everywhere.

I watched the 1970s episode last night, thought it was great! The teachers didn't like it so much as the kids had more autonomy and freedom, I thought they learnt much more just in less measurable ways e.g. cooking class making the lunches for the rest of the kids.

We've not enjoyed this series so much as the others because the people taking part don't seem to be taking it seriously and really "living it" like the people in other series did. They just don't seem to be entering into the experience. One of the boys seems to have vanished from the series too, wonder why?

@Rosekay I agree, I don't think the teachers have taken it very seriously - it's not really been a true representation of education of the period because the teachers are just chatting to the kids about what they think about the rules etc of the time!

I was at comprehensive in the 1970s and recognized hardly anything on the last programme. Maybe different parts of the country taught and acted in different ways. We were very well taught and certainly didn't strike!

Very true.. I really enjoyed the other living in the past series, but this is just like a half hearted docusoap

Has anyone been watching it? Do you think some of the children are rude 🙈🙈

I don't know why this made me laugh! It shouldn't really. I've said it before but around 60% of parents would be ashamed if they saw how their DC REALLY behaved/spoke in school.
Yes, some of the teenagers are bloody rude. It's not realistic and it can't possibly be - the teachers aren't behaving the way they would have in the past (rightly so). A board rubber would be hitting heads hard for sure if pupils spoke to teachers that way back then.
So, we're watching teens & teachers with their 2019 attitudes dressed up in old clothes.
Bit rubbish really.

Girls did cross country too.

I've enjoyed watching it. It wasn't going to be 100% realistic because the kids were not going to be caned, so I'm ok with how the programme depicts a general view of education through the ages rather than living it.

I also agree with previous posts saying some people would be shocked at how some kids behave in school.

I've just started watching from the 60s onwards because they filmed it at my old school. Quite disturbed by the prospect of the 90s one which is when I was there. So my teens are now a historical documentary. Darn.

@DappledThings - I was at university in '90s, so I know what you mean!