What were you like when you were at school?

Stonedpilot · 09-12-2016 12:42PM

Shy,timid but very assertive when need be.

Winterlong · 09-12-2016 12:44PM

I was absolutely deadly at school. But perhaps not as humble as I am now.

SEPT 23 1989 · 09-12-2016 12:54PM

Started off alright but then things got a bit hazy

Gunslinger92 · 09-12-2016 12:56PM

I was one of the swots. That hasn't changed

I was happy out at school, wasn't popular by any stretch of the imagination but had my group of friends. Got along with all of my teachers, only got in trouble once for going on the lang and I felt so horrible when I got caught that I never put so much as a toenail out of line since!

I really came out of my shell in uni though, and I'm now in my first professional job and I still am coming out of the shell to be honest! I'm a completely different person now than I was when I left school, in a good way (I think)

Widdershins · 09-12-2016 01:06PM

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I had maybe four or five friends in primary school. When I started secondary school I started falling out with them because I wasn't 'cool'. I started hanging around with complete morons. I knew they were using me because I would do stupid things and give them a laugh but I figured it was better than having no one to talk to. After a couple of years I fell out with them too.

After I did my junior cert and got my summer holidays I didn't return to school because I couldn't take any more abuse. A lot of it was verbal but there was other shit like my 'friends' chewing up bits of paper and spitting them at me. They would suck on these buts of paper for 5 or 10 minutes before spitting them at me. After every single geography class my neck would be absolutely covered in spit.

I've met people I went to school with in the street and they've said hello to me. Most of the time I don't even answer them. It's 24 years since I left school. They may think it's water under the bridge but I still remember vividly how they made me feel. There's no way I'd go to a reunion.

I know so many people who left secondary school because of abuse from other students. It strikes me as wrong that there's no penalty for potentially depriving someone of their education by driving them out.

Shannon757 · 09-12-2016 01:08PM

I am the lad in school who people go to looking for a laugh. I have a good circle of friends, well known but by now means the most popular person in school.

I get on really well with the teachers. They all like me, some more than others. I can get away with nearly anything, such as not doing homework, and the other time I got in trouble was for a fight lad year so I got suspended.

I don't have another paragraph about how I got on after school, cause I'm still stuck here.

pauliebdub · 09-12-2016 01:14PM

Very opinionated and also very much my own person so I was considered a bit odd and not particularly nice by many of the teachers and my peers. I'd often argue with the teachers and would often say what was on my mind without thinking about it. I'm very different now and regret how hurtful I was towards some of the teachers and students.

drake70 · 09-12-2016 01:17PM

I was very shy. Always told I could do better but was too lazy. A bit of a daydreamer.

Still managed to get expelled form two schools during 5th year.

Go figure

mcgrath1992 · 09-12-2016 01:18PM

i was a model student up until end of junior cert , not one detention or missed day or even gave cheek...but after that i kinda changed in 5th year , got fed up with everything and started not giving a damn about my school work , started to get lazy to the point that i even began to ditch classes..i would get the school bus but i would stay up the river park for rest of the day smoking...
then in 6th year me and another lad got into a argument over something stupid and started beating the 7 shades of **** out of each other until a teacher came around the corner 2 mins later..needless to say we both got suspended for a week lol....
Few months later we had a teacher that was a complete prick to most people and thought he knew it all over the years i was there , he got fed up of my carry on one day and told me straight in front of the whole class that i wouldnt amount to anything...now i wasnt a complete failure at exams i got high grades but he was convinced that i was dumb or something cause of my low grade in his class class so to get my own back on him i started to pay a little more attention to my studies just for the leaving exam and ended up getting b's and few a's...so few laters after i finished college i went back and barged into his class with my leaving cert and college degree in tow and and put them right up to his face and said "remember when you said i wouldnt amount to anything mr know it all? i just proved you wrong" and i walked out with hands in my pockets smiling leaving behind a shocked look on his face

scdublin · 09-12-2016 01:26PM

I was really shy and a bit awkward most of the time. I had a few people I was close to but I wasn't popular or unpopular really. I only talk to 1/2 people from school now.
We had a reunion over a year ago and it was really nice to see some people again and almost draw a line under the school days. I'm a completely different person now, much more confident. I'm sure it's the same for most people.

josip · 09-12-2016 01:36PM

I started fires in school.
Every single day I was burning, burning, burning.

_Jamie_ · 09-12-2016 01:46PM

Swotty if a little disaffected.

Olishi4 · 09-12-2016 01:53PM

I was a middle of the road student, not a trouble maker but not a nerd either. I did enjoy school for the most part. There were a few alright teachers and a few odd eccentric ones. There was one evil witch. She wasn't even a teacher, she'd supervise us sometimes if we had a free class. She'd snap at you for anything. She was constantly cranky unless another teacher was around, then she was like butter wouldn't melt.

We were in German class once and we were reading a story about a boy who delivered leaflets on skates. I remember a friend of mine started playing thick and kept questioning the teacher about the skates. He was like "hang on a sec, why would you deliver leaflets on skates?" and we all joined in saying "ive never seen it before", "you'd surely be better going a bike?", "it doesn't make any sense", "the pavements aren't really great for skates in fairness" etc! We went on for ages and god love the teacher, she kept answering the questions until she was like "please would you just forget about the skates, the class is nearly over and we're still talking about skates" and my friend said "well... I just don't buy it"

Also remember in English, we were reading a book and at the end of the chapter it was implied that two of the characters had sex but it was very ambiguous so I remember saying to the teacher "wait, what actually happened in that barn? Why did they go out there together?"

My teacher just laughed and said nothing.

Four Phucs Ache · 09-12-2016 01:55PM

Mr Murphy: Toolface (shouts across the room)
Me:what?
Mr Murphy: The blowtorch was not designed to be used on anything other than steel.
Me:I'm just toasting my sambo
Mr Murphy:Shakes head and leaves me at it.

pragmatic1 · 09-12-2016 02:06PM

A fanny. Had the potential to do well academically but just daydreamed, crammed and smoked far too much hash.

Right2Write · 09-12-2016 02:06PM

Very different person now, though funnily the influence of a few teachers have resonated throughout my life. Was involved in all sorts of student stuff and extra activities in school but little of that now. I can only think of one person that I still know from my year, though I see/ hear bits and pieces about others from time to time. Went to a reunion after 20 years, people were more or less as they were, the same groups and cliques. Was a bit disappointing though, as some of the people whom I'd really like to have met again, didn't show up.

Temptamperu · 09-12-2016 02:46PM

I was the smelly one

Widdershins · 09-12-2016 02:49PM

I don't know what I was like at secondary school. I mean I don't know how I was perceived.
I still see some people from school as I'm back in the area I went to school in. They haven't changed, really. I don't think there's anyone I miss from those days. I was one of the ones who couldn't wait to get out of there.

elefant · 09-12-2016 02:53PM

mcgrath1992 wrote: »

so few laters after i finished college i went back and barged into his class with my leaving cert and college degree in tow and and put them right up to his face and said "remember when you said i wouldnt amount to anything mr know it all? i just proved you wrong" and i walked out with hands in my pockets smiling leaving behind a shocked look on his face

I'm cringing just thinking about someone doing that.

Outlaw Pete · 09-12-2016 04:12PM

mcgrath1992 wrote: »

i was a model student up until end of junior cert , not one detention or missed day or even gave cheek...but after that i kinda changed in 5th year , got fed up with everything and started not giving a damn about my school work , started to get lazy to the point that i even began to ditch classes..i would get the school bus but i would stay up the river park for rest of the day smoking...
then in 6th year me and another lad got into a argument over something stupid and started beating the 7 shades of **** out of each other until a teacher came around the corner 2 mins later..needless to say we both got suspended for a week lol....
Few months later we had a teacher that was a complete prick to most people and thought he knew it all over the years i was there , he got fed up of my carry on one day and told me straight in front of the whole class that i wouldnt amount to anything...now i wasnt a complete failure at exams i got high grades but he was convinced that i was dumb or something cause of my low grade in his class class so to get my own back on him i started to pay a little more attention to my studies just for the leaving exam and ended up getting b's and few a's...so few laters after i finished college i went back and barged into his class with my leaving cert and college degree in tow and and put them right up to his face and said "remember when you said i wouldnt amount to anything mr know it all? i just proved you wrong" and i walked out with hands in my pockets smiling leaving behind a shocked look on his face

lol. To get your own back? You do realise that your reaction was exactly the response he was looking for, right? Classic reverse psychology. You turning things around would have just ensured that he employed those very same tactics with many more students who were similarly not applying themselves down the years.

andekwarhola · 09-12-2016 04:19PM

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pumpkin4life · 09-12-2016 04:22PM

I got in trouble a lot for speaking out on things and had teachers giving out to my folks that I was an underachiever. Went to a poor enough school.

Got a gammy L.C result, took a roundabout way into university and then it was like a switch went off; going from the underacheiver to pretty academically successful over the course of a few years.

Stepping Stone · 09-12-2016 04:32PM

I was quiet and shy. Academically, I was good but I had no self confidence. I was rubbish at sport, always felt ugly, fat and boring in comparison to everyone else. Outwardly, I don't know how I seemed. I wasn't popular and wasn't cool, so I think that I was a bit invisible.

I avoid people from school because I always feel crap around them. Ironically, I grew into a very quietly confident person. I have good friends, a good job and a nice home. I met one of the super popular guys from my class recently at a work meeting and I actually couldn't remember his name. I was polite but indifferent because I wasn't worth knowing back in the day but he seemed quite upset that I didn't remember him well or know what was going on in his life. I didn't feel bad about myself actually cos I suppose that I was in my comfort zone.

Life is funny sometimes but not in a ha ha way.

bradolf pittler · 09-12-2016 04:57PM

The class clown.
Was never a bully but stood by and did nothing which i always regret.
Was suspended a couple of times for ducking off cos i detested the place,Left before i did my my leaving cert did still manged to find a decent job.
I still see a few heads around town but not really in contact with any from my time in school which is fine by me.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 09-12-2016 05:07PM

I was always a bit introverted and anti social. I had lots of friends but never bothered with anyone outside my group. I kept myself to myself. I was quiet enough with people I didn't know, which some mistook as being an easy target for bullying but I would come out all guns blazing and was very fiery if pushed enough.

I was lazy enough, I hated anyone fighting or arguing with me into doing things. My art teacher summed it up in a parent teacher meeting with my mom.
"I don't argue with her. If I argue with her she'll do nothing, but if you leave her to get on with things she'll get it done eventually". I was a big fan of burying my head in the sand of subjects I didn't like (maths) and would Mitch a lot with the boys from the school nearby, drinking.

I wasn't bold or cheeky though so my teachers for the most part liked me and thought I was being led astray but I wasn't I just didn't like school.

5rtytry56 · 09-12-2016 05:10PM

A complete Ass hole. Failed 2 of 8 Leaving Cert subjects. but I got what I earned which was still sh!t. That was long long time ago now - my final year was 1990.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 09-12-2016 05:11PM

I was pretty weird. You know that kid who'd never speak and sit down the back drawing on her pants or something? That would be me.

I was really shy and innocent going into secondary school so the first three years were torture. Had a group of friends but really all we had in common was being shy

After junior cycle drifted into a group I actually had things in common with, it was much better but still fundamentally resented having to be there, I was absent a lot. And there was a lot of being physically there but miles away mentally. With the benefit of age and experience I'd say I actually maybe had two bouts of depression, but at the time everyone (me included) just dismissed it as being a teenager.

Good academically but not one of life's overachievers. Wasn't someone who'd act up for the sake of it but did have some run ins with teachers over the years. Only the fcuking eejit ones though.

Still have a couple of people from then I'm friends with, a few more I'd exchange pleasantries with if I ran into them but no way on god's green earth I'd go to a reunion. Half the bastards haven't moved outside a five mile radius since anyways so I don't know what the point would be. Still get a sick feeling in my stomach if I pass the school tbh.

JupiterKid · 09-12-2016 05:19PM

Happy, outgoing and gregarious in primary school and had quite a few school friends.

Bullied, withdrawn and lonely in secondary school. Had hardly any school friends - except for 5th/6th year when things got a lot better. Was strong academically but nothing exceptional.

College was where I really came into myself and I'm still in touch with quite a few college mates. I had a great time in college. I could finally be me!

Went to my 10 year reunion after an old friend from school days pleaded with me to go. It was ok. 10 years is not a long time and the assholes/bullies in school had hardly changed. Haven't been to a reunion since. Might - just might - go to the 25 year one to see who's aged well and who hasn't. Then again, it might not be worth the bother.

My school has an old boys network bullcrap thing going on and I've never been remotely interested in getting involved. I prefer to achieve things on my own merit.

J Mysterio · 09-12-2016 06:45PM

There's so many people who were withdrawn and listless in school (zero craic) who then went to college and 'found themselves' etc. It's almost cliche.

Well, I enjoyed Secondary School and was very disinterested in University, couldnt wait to graduate and get on with my life.

Teyla Emmagan · 09-12-2016 07:09PM

I was happy enough. Bright student. Talked to everyone. Lots of friends. I was one of those annoying kids (from a teacher's point of view) who talked out in class though. Questions and objections and the like. That was about the worst of my behaviour though. Once I mitched (we went and sat in a bathroom) and immediately got caught. The innocence of it.

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