Snails pace wrote: » Went to a country school. In 6th year myself and a few other friends drove to school. One friend of mine drove a jeep and the head teacher asked would he bring benches back over to the girls school across the road (we went to an all boys school). We loaded up the benches at 2pm and went across to the girls school. Dropped off the benches. one of the lads is fairly hairy so before leaving we decided we'd do an honorary lap of the school with the other friend sticking his hairy árse out the window at anyone who could see it. Another thing we used do was pick up 1st and 2nd years and leave them at the other side of town so they'd be late coming back from lunch. On wet days a pool of water would gather just before the turn into the school. We'd drive through it at speed and try soak as my people as possible. After 1 or 2 tries a lot of them would get wise to what's going on.
Sgt Hartman wrote: » There was a guy in my primary school class who was huge. At the age of 12 he was 6ft tall and 16st, he could have easily passed for 18. He was also the reason our class won the 6th class tug o war competition on the school sports day back in 1992 in The Brother's Field in Limerick.
the purple tin wrote: » Back in the old days it was next to impossible to sack a teacher. Short of actually murdering a pupil like, they were almost untouchable. I wonder is it still like that nowadays.
Mad_maxx wrote: » Guy in my class in primary school could handle many adults, he was huge and an animal to fight, it's possible nineteen year old might have been small and weak
unhappys10 wrote: » Yeh that's bollox, if he was a year behind that makes him 11 max. No 11 year old could do that to a 19 year old unless he was about 20 stone and sat on him.
Gregor Samsa wrote: » Get used to it guys. Language changes. Oxford English Dictionary has recognised this usage since 2011.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/10240917/Uproar-as-OED-includes-erroneous-use-of-literally.html
weldoninhio wrote: » Bart Simpson, in that episode of the Simpsons where he does the exact same thing. Season 2 Episode 14. :rolleyes:
The Royal Scam wrote: » Classmate secretly ate 3 packets of chivers jelly from his schoolbag
Ush1 wrote: » Literally?
sweet_trip wrote: » Did we go to the same school or was this just a common occurance around the country? lol
Piehead wrote: » F me! Her head left her body? Did she get done for murder? Literally no way you can live without a head
Sgt Hartman wrote: » I saw a first year girl from a really rough background literally punching the head off of a 6th year girl in the hallway one day. The 6th year didn't stand a chance.
joeguevara wrote: » When I was in 4th class, and my brother was in 6th class, one of his classmates literally beat the sh1t out of a 17 or 18 year old in front of all of us. The guy was wearing the uniform of 5th or 6th year (junior cycle wore a different colour) so it definitely could happen.
Gregor Samsa wrote: » Believe what you want lads, no skin off my nose, but the reason I'm telling the story is because it's exceptional. Obviously I can't offer any evidence, but it's a thread for anecdotes, so it is what it is. It was a school on the northside of Dublin, around 1984 or so. I remember the names of the trainee brother and the kid. Everyone else I know who went to the school at the time knows it happened too, it's been often talked about over the years.
Gregor Samsa wrote: » The teacher I had when I was 7 used to make us do competitions where 2 of us had to sit on the boiling hot radiators in the class, and the last one to cry was the winner. He'd physically hold you down on it if he thought you were trying to hop off too early. He had another competition where the last 3 kids into the class in the morning had to stand up at the top, and would be beaten on the arse with a bamboo rod. Again, last one to cry was the "winner". There was no prize. There'd be a stampede in the morning not to be last in, bt someone always had to be. One teacher stripped a 9 year old kid down to his underwear, threw all his clothes out the a second floor window, and made him run down and collect them with half the school watching out the windows - and that was just the teacher having a laugh. Another one in primary school held a kid out a second floor window by his ankle, the kid screaming in fear. That guy would regularly punch little kids full force in the chest, knock them on the ground and kick them, ram their heads into the door. He should have been in prison. Instead, he was just lauded as a "tough" teacher. It was absolutely ****ed up what they got away with. School is so different now.
BrownFinger wrote: » That reminds me, There was a big classroom in our school and there was a folding wall, it folded like an accordian . It was really heavy duty. If we had a free cass we would run the length of the class into the wall to annoy the teacher on the other side. One time a fella sat in a desk (the joint ones) and we slid him up the isle as fast as possible into the wall. the whole thing came crashing down !
joeguevara wrote: » There was a case a year or so ago (in clare as far as i remember) where a principal was demoted to a teaching post after they were found guilty of publicly humiliating and bullying primary school children.https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/principal-loses-challenge-to-demotion-over-emotional-abuse-of-pupil-1.3886628
EmmetSpiceland wrote: » Shame no former pupils came back for him in later life.