28-06-2019, 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Malc.27
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It's 60 years since I left school, (1959), and in those days we just 'left', no dance evening to celebrate, just left and never returned! I half expected someone from the school enquiring why I hadn't gone back after the summer holiday...That was my naive reaction to a non-event,...
After the 5th year, some just left..
And after 6th form and our A levels my peers and I just piled down to the nearest pub
..in our uniforms
28-06-2019, 10:44 PM
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Hi Rhian,Thank you for your reply...
I've often described my experience of 'leaving school' as a 'non-event ' because that's exactly how it felt.
I was 15 years old when my schooldays finished and my parents had purchased a corner shop just 3 weeks earlier, so I was ushered into being a 'would-be' grocer from the day after leaving school....
No regrets, though.
Regards, Malc.
29-06-2019, 07:44 AM
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HiI am opposed to Prom Nights.
Many simply cannot afford them.
They are divisive.
A leaving disco, yes, everyone can attend and not be disadvantaged.
I know parents who have been put under so much pressure they have taken out loans at over a 1000% to pay for the Dress.
This is stupid.
We had a great leaving Disco, dress rules where School Uniform.
Nobody was disadvantaged.
It was a Catholic School, the Nuns , normally so strict, where very relaxed.
Snogging and Groping was not an issue.
Mother Carmelia, normally a tyrant, was ace.
We are not Idiots, you are old enough to make make your own decisions.
We may be Nuns, but we know all about Sex.
No Sex, no more Catholics.
29-06-2019, 09:39 AM
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Ha ha! Me too Realspeed that would really be a sight
My step grand daughter has her prom shortly so far she has bought two dresses and can't decide which to wear....she will look lovely ....actually swims there are so many sites now that specialise in low cost dresses no need to pay £1000s I know my grand daughter hasn't.
I'm.jealous Rhian I bet it was a lovely night and one the students in particular will remember all their lives.
29-06-2019, 09:40 AM
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Re: Still Up!
Originally Posted by Malc.27
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It's 60 years since I left school, (1959), and in those days we just 'left', no dance evening to celebrate, just left and never returned! I half expected someone from the school enquiring why I hadn't gone back after the summer holiday...That was my naive reaction to a non-event,...
My last few years at school were awful. Teachers (some) in those days concentrated on those pupils who were doing really well, or so it seemed. Those of us who were not in that category were slowly left behind in some subjects. I had just given up, so much so that I did not take any exams, they were GCSEs in those days I recall.
However, despite all that I left school on the Friday and started work on Monday. A six-year trade apprenticeship in printing gave me a good trade which resulted in an almost unbroken 55-year working life. No complaints about that. The subject in which I did not excel, maths, was eventually not a problem, basically I just needed a little more tuition and time to understand. So Mr Brown (teacher) I was not impossible to teach as you thought – today I have my own house, nice cars, good lifestyle!
Apologies, rather off topic there, it's good to get that off my chest though after all those years!
29-06-2019, 11:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Baz46
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Not quite as long ago for me, although only by a couple of years (1961). For me there were no leaving celebrations, other than just being able to get out of that school and start work!My last few years at school were awful. Teachers in those days concentrated on those pupils who were doing really well, or so it seemed. Those of us who were not in that category were slowly left behind in some subjects. I had just given up, so much so that I did not take any exams, they were GCSEs in those days I recall.
However, despite all that I left school on the Friday and started work on Monday. A six-year trade apprenticeship in printing gave me a good trade which resulted in an almost unbroken 55-year working life. No complaints about that. The subject in which I did not excel, maths, was eventually not a problem, basically I just needed a little more tuition and time to understand. So Mr Brown (teacher) I was not impossible to teach as you thought – today I have my own house, nice cars, good lifestyle!
Apologies, rather off topic there, it's good to get that off my chest though after all those years!
29-06-2019, 11:06 AM
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I can't remember what we did.I expect there was some sort of leaving party, but I don't remember it at all!
We would just have dressed up in our disco gear and had it in the school hall - no expensive venue, meal or dress, and no alcohol either!
I'm really against all this hypey stuff regarding proms, in fact I think it's awful. Sends out a dreadful message of conspicuous consumption, and as others have said, can be devasting for people from not so fortunate backgrounds.
I was just at the start of the equally awful hype regarding children's birthday parties. Goody bags had just started to be distributed at the end of parties, that is , containing a present for the guest as well as a slice of the birthday cake.
I just couldn't afford to give more than the cake and a balloon for each guest, and that was bad enough, but shortly after that, the goody bags got bigger and more elaborate; people brought presents for the birthday child, and then expected to go home with more stuff than they brought! It's ridiculous!
I stopped parties after the age of seven, and the next one was their eighteenth!
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