Do you miss secondary school?

No....kip.

No. Remember being told by teachers these were the best years of your life. Wanted to kill myself. Turns out things got much much better.

Nope. Although a few teachers could get their students to learn, most taught without caring if their students learnt anything. Guidance counsellor was crap (my response to his hanging was; pity it didn't happen before I left the place), and thus I don't miss the place at all.

Not in the slightest. From 4th year up till early sixth year I started mitching a lot of classes. Mainly in the afternoon where I could go home and just not go back, and especially where the classes in the afternoon were pointless nonsense ones like religion.

Just pure boredom. Couldn't imagine it now with phones, the temptation to sit down the back of the class and surf facebook all day would be incredible.

Should really look at pushing towards the A-level model like in the UK with a touch of the trades model they have in Germany. Up to 3rd year, give a decent general education. You have to do English and one other language, but it doesn't have to be Irish. And do most of the subjects in a modular form so that you get a proper mix. That is, you might do half a year of geography, then the next term you do half a year of history. Then the next year is woodwork and chemistry. Give everyone a good mix of subjects and information so that they're not spending 3 years going, "Oh god, not fncking history again".

At the end of 3rd year, going into a technical college to do a trade should be a legitimate option and not the option that only the "academically challenged" avail of. This is something which gives you an actual trade and a level 8 qualification after 4 years. Those who want to keep going get to choose any four subjects - things that they actually enjoy - and they do 200 hours per year per subject on these subjects alone. This brings them up to an equivalent second year college education in these topics. With shorter school days - 10am to 3pm or something similar, to give them more time to study and/or work outside of school.

What I remember from doing the leaving cert was how much time was wasted on topics that I couldn't give a fnck about - Irish, English, Religion, etc, meaning that there wasn't nearly enough time spent on subjects that I actually did enjoy. The end result was boredom. And not that typical, "Man, I want something to do", but actual, painful, mind-crushing boredom that sucked all motivation out of life.

I absolutely hated secondary school - bunch of absolute bitches in my year, had to waste loads of time on subjects I hated (languages, religion, accounting - I would have preferred to have done something like the A-level system and taken maths and all the sciences) and so many petty little things like teachers having a canary at you for wearing runners to walk to school when you lived 40 minutes away and they knew that.

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I missed it! hit the house next door instead. :P

Marist College or Aloysius? If it's the Marist College, next time I'll help you line up the sights!

I went there back in the 80s and there are teachers in there that should be in jail with the brutality they meted out on some students. Mind you most of them are probably retired now or passed on.

So no I don't miss secondary school at all in fact it brings back some serious nightmares, one teacher in particular who was one nasty basta*d.

The same fate happened me as did the A-Team, both falsely accused of something that another little **** did and the ****er didn't own up to it.

Anyway, that made secondary school a nightmare.

If I was black I could definitely pull off the B A haircut