'Homework vouchers'

Ruu_Old

As someone who always wishes to be back in their primary school years, I was chatting with a few friends about these homewor vouchers we got in 4th class. You could buy your way out of any homework basically, anyone else have these? I know some people who used to save them all up and forget to use them.

hardCopy

I think I remember something like that. We could be them at the school Christmas fair, we had a limit of 1 per person though I think. You got to choose then what night you would use it. I think everybody used to just use them firs chance they got though.

petes

Ruu, around what year was this? I don't remember frig all about primary school but I'm sure I would have remembered these. I wonder if I can get some work vouchers?

The Walsho

Yeah I remember these, we had them in fourth of fifth class, and we also got subject vouchers that only got you off one subject instead of all your homework, handy all the same!

Ruu_Old

petes wrote:

Ruu, around what year was this? I don't remember frig all about primary school but I'm sure I would have remembered these. I wonder if I can get some work vouchers?

'89 or so for me, sorry can't provide you with the work vouchers.

The guy

We had vouchers which could let you go on the pc for 2 hours during class, sometimes even four if the same voucher was used.

Wisheress

Brilliant. Clearly it wasn't just that my teacher had come up with a truly inspirational idea. Back in 1989-1991. Moved house not too long ago and found a few of them tucked away. No expiry date mind you....hmmmm.

Yes! My fourth class teacher gave them out. You could use one voucher to get off one subject, for one night.

I think I had one left over at the end of the year.

Jimoslimos

Yeah had something similar, merit stars. I remember trying to accumulate these so I'd have a few homework-free days in a row. Also I think there was a class merit scheme and the best-behaved class at the end of the year would recieve a prize, usually some sweets and fizzy drink.

Man we were easily bought

Feral Mutant

Yes I remember these, and assumed my teacher had made them up, but since this was 8 or 9 years ago and other posters remember them from when I was just born, that's not the case. Quarter of an A4 page, drawn to look like a scroll. Didn't work when we we're given extra homework as a punishment, there was another condition, I think you couldn't use a few of them in a row.

Me: "Well it's almost time, after years of bartering for no-homework vouchers, I've almost enough to cash them in and retire from homework for the rest of primary school."
My friend: "Actually, there's something we've been meaning to tell you. You can't trade homework vouchers for lunch snacks or office supplies. We've been pretending you can for years so we could get free stuff from you."
Me: "WHAT?"
My friend: "Also, homework vouchers don't accumulate. They expire."
Me: *collapses*
My friend: "Didn't seem that cruel at the time."*

*Dramatisation, may not have happened, may have been ripped off from an episode of Dilbert.