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Winchester College
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_College
I'm kind of glad there wern't any boys and most of the teaching was quite good - like they nearly always made us to degree papers for revision so when you got to the actual exams (GCSE and A-Level) they were well easy.
Plus most of my friends now are from school and browsing through facebook lots of people are still in their own little groups from school - I dunno if that was good or bad - i was in the Sad but don't care group in school because I wanted to be friends with nice people not all the bitches. Outside of school I was obviously friends with all the cool people ;p
To be fair, when I started there in '97, they were about half of that. Plus around half the members of the school are on some kind of financial support aswell as the people who hold scholarships. People are there more for their academic record and less for their financial means. If there is a very able candidate whose 'rents can't pay the fees, the school will offer large discounts. Quite charitable I guess.
Well they wouldn't have a good reputation if it was filled with a bunch of thick rich kids.
No point not staying on for the sake of clothes. It was one of the top grammar schools in the country. At least i got to wear coloured shirts. :hyper:
Dunno if I miss it exactly, I more miss being 16 and getting free meals cooked for you and not having to pay rent/council tax and all that :grump:
Cos everyone knows they all go to Harrow and Charterhouse.
I was the opposite, I was a cunt till that age. Once I got into sixth form I settled down, mainly cos I was stoned half the time and I wanted to get my A-levels.
I had to wear uniform all the way up to 18 as well, not too bad, I don't think any schools here let people wear their normal clothes to school.
That's just crap.
I remember one time walking out of the changing rooms and down to the playing field. On the way (out of one of the doors) the head of PE stopped me and asked me where my kit was. I told him that I had a note, therefore wasn't going to be doing PE. He just stood there and shouted at me. (in front of everyone else as well)
Ha, I remember when one of my friends got to sixth form there and he was so excited about his coloured shirts.
We never got that. Whilst we were getting changed, they'd walk around and have a word with anyone who didn't bring their kit. They stopped this in Year 9 and made anyone who didn't have their kit stand in front of the changing room and ask them to see their notes.
TBH, I think there was a bit of fabouritism - there are a set of twins I know who are disabled. When they didn't their kits in, the teachers basically 'oh ok, fine' but if we didn't bring ours in, we'd get shouted at and expected to do work out of a textbook or run around the gym like everyone else had to do if they had thier kit.
We had this as well and it was really annoying because we'd sometimes be doing tests or revising and there would just be some kid that would come in and interupts everyone.
We used to take great delight in telling them shut the fuck up when the teachers where out of the class room. One of the teachers came very close to swearing at a couple of them one day. It was something along the lines of "You should at least respect those that want to learn rather then disrupting the Sixth formers *raises voice* so shut up"
i loved primary school though.. well, all 3 of them!
Got to senior school and people didn't give me any trouble because of the town i'm from (has a rep for hard folk lol) and all of i sudden i was just able to stand up for myself. It was ok, i got on with most people and never really got any trouble apart from the odd twat. I was sexually harrassed once but that's about it.