Reminiscing about primary school

[deevil]

I was at my parent's house today for my neice's birthday (she's 11). I was downstairs fixing the computer (almost a weekly chore) when I noticed my old childhood/scrap book thingie for school. Basically a collection of folders - one for each year of Kindergarten through 12. Now mine's only filled up until grade 8 when we moved and I lost the thing (my parent's never kept it filled, I did that in some weird needy feeling for orginization). Anyways, I was about to look through it at the old report cards and thinking "oooh, i was such a smart kid, I always had great marks..." and then I looked. Shit, I wasn't half as smart as I thought I was... there were a HELL of a lot of B's in there... wtf? I distinctly remember getting almost all A's all the time. I've been deluding myself all these years into thinking I was this genius kid who was too good for the school system. Shit, I was just some above-average kid and certainly not top of the class. Most of my teacher's said I didn't pay attention and handed stuff in late. And how could my parents have let me have an average of 2 or 3 absent days a month? Where were they? I don't remember having "fun days off" pretending I'm sick and watching the Price is Right in the living room with Chicken Noodle soup or anything 3 times a month? Damn, makes me wish I'd been able to pay attention in school... not sure if I was bored (still am), tired (still am), or just lazy (bingo!). I blame genetics... its all my parents' fault. :(

[locust]

When I was in primary school, I had the biggest crush on the same girl in Years 5 through 7.

I bumped into her randomly a couple of years ago. Didn't find her as attractive as I used to, but I still went home and had a fap for old time's sake.

[deevil]

I got wtf0wn3d by a girl in grade 8 that I was really good friends with from grade 4 onwards. We hung out together forever from gr. 4-7 then in gr. 8 her friend suggested we go out (whatever that means to two kids in gr.8). So we went to the "dance" together and she dumped me at the end of the night because some kid in grade 8 liked her. WTF?

[StygiaN]

locust, that is an awesome story ;)

I remember I learnt how to square numbers when I was in year 2. I was smart.

[gunsella]

when i was in kindy, the teachers said "can anyone say what the body is made of?"
i'm sure they were expecting us to say "arms, legs, head" etc...

i said "atoms"!

[piggle]

i was really stupid in primary school.(still am) but i remember this one pic that my dad use to hang up in his office that i drew...it had a picture of a stick figure that was dressed up as a princess...and it said i am a pit. i was a really bad speller.....but pit is no where near princess..ahhhh

[jambo]

Whenever I drew pictures, everyone was naked.

[Cassa]

I could spell 'physical' when I was in prep. That's about my proudest memory. Primary school was horrible because I had no friends and everyone teased me and beat me up.

[Manshoon]

Too much blood too many injuries too many stitches from primary school. I was a smart kid......apparently.....I think I actually have some old report cards here somewhere from Year 11 and 12.....yeah my marks were shit by then.....spent too much time with the gf studying anatomy I think :D

[MisterBishi]

My earliest school memory is of kissing a girl's feet and looking up her skirt under the desk. I was about 4 or 5 and she was called Vicky. I bet she's a slut now, I should look her up.

[BlueBoy]

Stapled my thumb twice. Not on the same day.

[dilligaf]

Always was in trouble for being a complete arse-hole and smart arse. Still havent changed.

[Whiskers]

Year 6 was the best time of my life.
I was dux of the school.
Sports person of the year.
Best & Fairest Netball player of the year
Best & Fairest Softballer of the year.
Represented the State in Athletics and Netball.
Broke the regional high jump record.

My best years are already behind me.

[dilligaf]

I was teh sports captain. :S

[locust]

So was I, and I sucked at sport.

[annie]

i didn't achieve anything in primary school, i was the loner girl who spent a lot of her time in the library, but i was also a very violent girl, so i fitted in with all the boys, and was always the one to join in thier games (one of my clearest memories is being asked by all the boys to play catch and kiss... i don't know why they wanted me too... but from memory, it was fun :D)

highschool was pretty crappy too, i think i have achieved an A maybe 4 times in my life? mainly for the simplest things. I was a C average :p

[dilligaf]

Yeah. Exactly. Well, the only thing I've done is play rep cricket for a few years. Other than that, which wasnt even a school thing, i was no good a sport. Wasnt even remotely popular in primary school either. Prefered books to friends.

[Manshoon]

I played on the school team for cricket......I ended up with a fractured cheek out of it and a huge black eye from one of my team mates taking me out in practice.....Mind you when I went to the game and the other team asked me how it happened and I told em they were shit scared of him.

[RedMaN]

I spent a large proportion of my early years of primary school (kindy-Yr2) standing next to the naughty clown. There was a pic of a clown painted on the wall in the main play area and all the naughty kids were sent to stand there if they had been misbehaving... hence dubbed the naughty clown. I have been back there since and the clown can still be seen in some sort of faded format.... ahh the memories *sniff*

[Afro88]

Yr7 was great. We had 2 classrooms, 1 for teaching with desks and stuff, and one which had the 2 computers (main and a french teaching one) and lots of floor space. This 2nd room was awesome for wrestles, games etc., but what got all us computer nerds going were the 2 computers. After hacking "PC Lockout" (which really wasn't hard... F8 during ms-dos bootup anyone?), we had Mortal Kombat 1 and 2, Star Control, a few random PCGamer demos and some other assorted crap on both computers.

During French class the teacher would let a pair of students go into the room to play "french games" (ie Mortal Kombat). However, the best part was during normal class where the game was to get as many people into the room as possible for covert Mortal Kombat toureys :cool:

[Munchkin]

I loved school when I was little, because I thought I'd only have to be there like 4 years, then I could be at home for ever.

I was the little pigtailed loudmouth who had the smart answer for anything and talked too much for her own good. I tended to be friends with the misfits of the school because I never liked seeing anyone sad or left out.

I loved French ( we started learning at 7 ) and maths, but was not the most sporty of children , but was a mean rounders player :)

I think one of my earliest memories of school was an untimely walk past 2 kids who were fighting in the playground, looking to my left and getting accidentally headbutted and having my nose broken aged 8 :( Luckily it wasnt left all bumpy, but for about 3 days I was the most popular person in school :p

I left that school when I was 9, and went to one where my 2 cousins were, so I didnt feel that lonely.

It wasnt until I hit 12 or so and my parents split up that I regressed into the quiet little studious nerd in the corner with a passion for science and languages.

Nowadays, Im still the quiet nerdy type,just older :p

[King_Crud]

I was in all the sporting teams. I was the only one who got automatically selected for the socceer team. I represented the school in cross country and athletics each year of primary.

My mates and i used to play brandings with a tennis ball. When we lost all our tennis balls we'd use a golf ball, but that meant you had to be at least 2 metres away from your target when you threw the ball

I was on detention a lot in year 6. Second only to Andrew Maxwell. We had detention cards with a full record of what we did nd how long our detention was.

[dozer]

i remember smoking alpine lights and reading penthouse during the year 6 sleepover, little has changed in such a long time.

[DumHed]

On one of my first days at primary school the teacher asked the class "what's that thing up in the sky?"
I answered "A nuclear fusion reactor"
Apparently "the sun" would have been an adequate answer :P

Shortly after than I asked when we'd be learning about electronics, and was told I'd have to "wait a while"

I think my favourite primary school thing was the way I got out of having to play recorder for a whole term.
I hated recorder a huge amount.
At the end of one term I filled my recorder full of PVA glue and left it for two weeks of holiday.

At the first music lesson of the next term I found that someone had "filled my recorder with glue!" and was told to borrow a school recorder instead.
I insisted that I could clean the glue out and use my own, which I pretended to do every lesson for the rest of the year :)

[King_Crud]

i remember smoking alpine lights and reading penthouse during the year 6 sleepover, little has changed in such a long time.
i remember in year six a guy in my class told us he had a porno with pictures of Samantha Fox. This was 1988, at the height of the Sam Fox phenomenom. We were dead keen on seeing this porno. Finally he brings it in and it's about 4 pages of some topless chick who was not Sam Fox. He got beatings at frst, then we realised that photos of topless chicks are good no matter who.

[Glompbot]

I was sent to creative EC writing classes... because aparantly i was talented.
Was selected to go to a luncheon at the Hilton for the childrens book awards in '92...

I had 'over productive tear ducts' aka i was a cry baby (ie. i got very upset at things... very easily... and when i get angry or upset i tend to cry... it still happens... if i'm angry i'll more likely burst into tears rather than anything else)

I was always a 'concientious student'
but there was always the 'talks too much' comment too :D

I was entered into an english competition when I was in year 5, and came in the top two percent of the state and was awarded a distinction result.

I was the only one in my year who made it into a selective high school.

[AntZ]

Looking back at my life depresses me - I started reading in 3rd grade and was seldom found outside the library during school hours (I still had an active lifestyle playing football, soccer, cricket, tennis, badminton, squash and eightball). Before I hit 11th grade I was virtually a straight A student but a combination of some bad friends and even worse teachers I went from my A- average to barely a C+ average. I dropped out of school two weeks before my final exams to do a government pre-traineeship course for the public sector (they wouldn't accept me if I was still in school) hoping that that would lead to better chances for employment than I was currently looking at. That was nearly 5 years ago now and my life since then has been mainly alternating between jobseeking and intermittent study at TAFE when I can afford it.