Weird things your school did..

Naomi00 · 04-10-2011 06:28PM #1

The other day I remembered that in primary school, in junior infants, when you were finished your work instead of playing with toys etc you 'got to' go around this manky old carpet and pick up tiny bits of dirt and staples with your hands. I think we used to do that a lot, it was how they 'cleaned' the carpet.. seems like a really odd thing to do now.

It wasn't that long ago so idk how they didn't have a hoover

It was such a weird school though.

So AH, do you have any strange things you remember your school doing?

No creepy jokes please.

04-10-2011 06:28PM

pbowenroe · 04-10-2011 06:30PM

none weirder than using 6 year old children as hoovers

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maygitchell · 04-10-2011 06:30PM

They touched me

Through learning and compassion!

mattjack · 04-10-2011 06:32PM

Naomi00 wrote: »

The other day I remembered that in primary school, in junior infants, when you were finished your work instead of playing with toys etc you 'got to' go around this manky old carpet and pick up tiny bits of dirt and staples with your hands. I think we used to do that a lot, it was how they 'cleaned' the carpet.. seems like a really odd thing to do now.

It wasn't that long ago so idk how they didn't have a hoover

It was such a weird school though.

So AH, do you have any strange things you remember your school doing?

No creepy jokes please.

Did you go to school in North Korea ?

maygitchell · 04-10-2011 06:33PM

mattjack wrote: »

Did you go to school in North Donegal ?

FYP

texidub · 04-10-2011 06:34PM

I wish I'd gone to a school for carpet lickers.

phasers · 04-10-2011 06:35PM

In sixth class, every week 2 girls were chosen to go to the staff room jsut before break and lunch. We had to unload the dishwasher, boil the kettle and put out cups and plates for all the teachers

whubee · 04-10-2011 06:36PM

Secondary school - allow open violence by the big guys towards the smaller guys, and then act all altruistic and preachy.

Managed to be incompetent too.......... while acting all altruistic and preachy.

shannie · 04-10-2011 06:37PM

phasers wrote: »

In sixth class, every week 2 girls were chosen to go to the staff room jsut before break and lunch. We had to unload the dishwasher, boil the kettle and put out cups and plates for all the teachers

now thats bad :L

pow wow · 04-10-2011 06:37PM

Bang the dust off the blackboard dusters on the outside wall if we were good. Ring the bell the signal school being over. Bring the milk crates down to the classrooms at break time. Oh, and go collect the photocopying/overhead projector/tv & video from the other building. The fame!

Also, 1 square of toilet roll, even if you were doing a number 2. And people think this is a recession...they have no idea.

Twee. · 04-10-2011 06:38PM

phasers wrote: »

In sixth class, every week 2 girls were chosen to go to the staff room jsut before break and lunch. We had to unload the dishwasher, boil the kettle and put out cups and plates for all the teachers

Same in my school!

phasers · 04-10-2011 06:40PM

Twee. wrote: »

Same in my school!

You didn't go to St Brigid's in Palmerstown did you?

goose2005 · 04-10-2011 06:41PM

Walk a mile to the shop to buy stuff for the teachers. And they never, ever said "keep the change" or "buy something for yourself."

sh1tstirrer · 04-10-2011 06:42PM

Naomi00 wrote: »

The other day I remembered that in primary school, in junior infants, when you were finished your work instead of playing with toys etc you 'got to' go around this manky old carpet and pick up tiny bits of dirt and staples with your hands. I think we used to do that a lot, it was how they 'cleaned' the carpet.. seems like a really odd thing to do now.

It wasn't that long ago so idk how they didn't have a hoover

It was such a weird school though.

So AH, do you have any strange things you remember your school doing?

No creepy jokes please.

When I was going to school weird and creepy were American slang words.

Chuck Stone · 04-10-2011 06:42PM

phasers wrote: »

In sixth class, every week 2 girls were chosen to go to the staff room jsut before break and lunch. We had to unload the dishwasher, boil the kettle and put out cups and plates for all the teachers

Like little servants for public servants.

Son Of A Vidic · 04-10-2011 06:43PM

I remember in National school we had to salute the Nuns..........fecking Nazi's!

Immaculate Pasta · 04-10-2011 06:44PM

At Primary School our playground was right next to a field. We weren't allowed to play with footballs on the playground itself after some girl got her teeth knocked out by one of them. But we were allowed to bring smaller balls to school to play with so people brought tennis balls and bouncy balls and so on.

However as the weather started to get colder the dinnerladies didn't want us going on the grass to retrieve our balls because invariably it was wet and muddy. Now this playground had 250 kids on a playground no bigger than a netball court and at least three quarters of the kids brought a ball to school. There was a line at the end of the playground and if a kid crossed the line and went on the field they got sent to stand facing the wall for the rest of the break. There was a Nazi dinnerlady, Mrs Joyce her name was, who essentially stood on the line next to the field and enforced this rule to the limit. If you stepped over the line but stayed on the playground you got sent to the wall. If someone stole your ball and threw it on the field and you go and retrieve it, you still got sent to the wall.

Needless to say it was just chaos. The break was 45 minutes long and out of the 250 kids I'd say there was only 30 kids if that still playing on the playground by the end of every break. Everybody else was stood up against the wall. When I was 8, I must have spent every lunchbreak for about six months stood against a wall. You'd run out to the playground after lunch play with your ball for 5 mins, ball would go on the field, you'd go and retrieve it, get caught and spend the next 40 minutes stood against a wall. It was just bizarre now I come to think of it, 220 kids all stood against the wall like some prisoner of war camp

OneArt · 04-10-2011 06:45PM

I remember we had this one huge bull of a woman as a principal. We were all terrified of her. She even used to thrown kids into this cupboard which was rumoured to have had spikes on the inside walls... F*cking terrifying. Then she disappeared one day because apparently she was chased out after a ghost threatened her.

Creepy ass school...

Where To · 04-10-2011 06:48PM

we learned wreading and riting at our skool.:)

Naomi00 · 04-10-2011 06:48PM

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

When I was going to school weird and creepy were American slang words.

Your username is apt.:p

I think you'll find both of those words in a dictionary by the way..

Pherekydes · 04-10-2011 06:52PM

In my secondary History, Geography, Biology and Home Economics were for girls only, while Woodwork, Metalwork, Physics and Technical Drawing were for boys only.

For sport the girls could choose between cross country and typing, while the boys could choose between Gaelic football, soccer and chess.

Apparently, I was the first boy to opt for XC.

ZombieBride · 04-10-2011 06:52PM

We only had 3 teacher in our school and when I was in sixth class there were only 7 of us but about 20 in the fifth class, so the teacher who was the principal decided not to bother teaching us the 6th class stuff, but to just do the 5th class work again. It's no wonder why the 7 of us were put into the backwards class when we got to secondary.

retalivity · 04-10-2011 06:52PM

our football pitch had a tree stump and big roots protruding out of the grounds, right around one of the penalty spots, and being kids, we used to play 30 a side with everyone chasing the ball. carnage.

was also a little house right next to the school where an old man lived. used to sellotape page 3 (from the sun) to the window so all the kids would go down for a look every day. done it for years, and whether the school didnt know about it or didnt care, ive still no idea

windowlean · 04-10-2011 07:36PM

Every day after lunch two lads from 6th class would be picked to be on 'bin duty', walking round the school with the wheelie bin having to pick up all the rubbish.

Oh yeah also before lunch everyday in 6th class two girls would have to walk down to the shop to get the teachers lunch.

Thing is everyone loved getting picked to do those jobs!

Naomi00 · 04-10-2011 07:39PM

ZombieBride wrote: »

We only had 3 teacher in our school and when I was in sixth class there were only 7 of us but about 20 in the fifth class, so the teacher who was the principal decided not to bother teaching us the 6th class stuff, but to just do the 5th class work again. It's no wonder why the 7 of us were put into the backwards class when we got to secondary.

I think we did the same in my school but there was about 30 to a room.

One time a mouse was killed in a trap in front of every while we were reading a book called Marcus the Mouse or something. The teacher just looked at it and carried on reading..

FloatingVoter · 04-10-2011 07:45PM

In secondary school, we used the newbies (1st / 2nd years) as dusters for the blackboard. They took this as a compliment.

When they asked me or others to stand outside the door in Irish, we'd wait for three to gather and go down the pub. Nobody in "authority" noticed.

Ahhh...sweet sixteen.

In hindsight, I was a teenage Nazi.

stupidusername · 04-10-2011 07:51PM

windowlean wrote: »

Every day after lunch two lads from 6th class would be picked to be on 'bin duty', walking round the school with the wheelie bin having to pick up all the rubbish.

Oh yeah also before lunch everyday in 6th class two girls would have to walk down to the shop to get the teachers lunch.

Thing is everyone loved getting picked to do those jobs!

same here. it's only when you end up telling someone about it, you realise how odd it was.

our duties were ringing the bell around the school yard (that was a huge deal to do), cleaning the blackboards, getting the lunch room ready for the teachers (we didn't have a lunch room), delivering the post to the teachers in each classroom. I remember having to cut up a cake for them once when they had a visitor in, and getting the tea ready.

what I also thought was weird, and was just saying this to a friend the other day, we had to take off our shoes and put on slippers while we were in the school. any body else have to do that?

phasers · 04-10-2011 07:54PM

stupidusername wrote: »

same here. it's only when you end up telling someone about it, you realise how odd it was.

our duties were ringing the bell around the school yard (that was a huge deal to do), cleaning the blackboards, getting the lunch room ready for the teachers (we didn't have a lunch room), delivering the post to the teachers in each classroom. I remember having to cut up a cake for them once when they had a visitor in, and getting the tea ready.

what I also thought was weird, and was just saying this to a friend the other day, we had to take off our shoes and put on slippers while we were in the school. any body else have to do that?

Did you go to school in Japan?

04-10-2011 07:55PM

stupidusername wrote: »

same here. it's only when you end up telling someone about it, you realise how odd it was.

our duties were ringing the bell around the school yard (that was a huge deal to do), cleaning the blackboards, getting the lunch room ready for the teachers (we didn't have a lunch room), delivering the post to the teachers in each classroom. I remember having to cut up a cake for them once when they had a visitor in, and getting the tea ready.

what I also thought was weird, and was just saying this to a friend the other day, we had to take off our shoes and put on slippers while we were in the school. any body else have to do that?

Yes on the slippers. It was to protect the floors apparently, what could be loosely defined as carpet.

Twee. · 04-10-2011 07:55PM

phasers wrote: »

You didn't go to St Brigid's in Palmerstown did you?

Yes! :eek:

Weird things your school did..

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