School Pupils

[Bazile]

Are there folks that you were at school with that you have never met again since you left ?

I often wonder about some fellow pupils

[davebro]

//User Inactive - how do you get back.//

I think you should just be able to log back in? I couldn't remember my password so I emailed admin & they sorted it.

[pat2604]

I was so glad to escape school. I never went to any reunions. Im still friendly with one though. We are still close friends and enjoyed our friendship with exciting adventures for years afterwards.

[lady-janine]

No. None of them. Never bothered. I'm just a bit anti-social. Or I went abroad to live and work and was too busy learning language and trade to have time. Take your pick.

[jennyjoan]

oh Pat - I loved school, loved my friends, the majority of teachers, the lessons, school dinners LOL - the desserts, jam coconut and sponge and custard etc.

I also never was bullied as I had speech defect, hearing diffs and a special desk in the middle of classrooms, the other girls always knew that it was my seat (had to lipread the teacher) we moved every single class. Absolutely the best days of my life.

[lady-janine]

The very best thing about school was the classes and learning new things. The rest was rather . . . . . . boring. I had friends when i was there but the only one I kept up was told by her traditional husband that he wanted her to come straight home home after work and not meet up for a cuppa (not alcohol, just catch up time) once a week. It was an arranged marriage.

[lady-janine]

Glad you had such a good time jj.

[pat2604]

I must admit the lessons were great and I learned a lot. School lessons gave me a good start. I Just hated wearing a uniform, being part of a herd,and team games. I enjoyed college and being treated as an adult. Left college and went straight to France as an Aupair. School was completely forgotten. Never were the best days of my life. I think we either loved school or hated it!

[pat2604]

Funnily enough I remember far more people from primary school and far more teachers.

[pastafreak]

I liked high school, and had a few close friends that I liked. But we all eventually lost contact as we went our seperate ways. About 15 years later, I could have sworn I saw an old friend in my Brooklyn neighbourhood, but I couldn't be bothered chasing after her. Moving to the UK, meant I definitely lost touch.

This is bizarre...I just googled the name of someone who was more acquaintance than friend. A particular person...an author on women's health...came up. No, that's not her. Then I was a bit more specific, putting in the town we grew up in. That led me to a connection to a class reunion with many names of people who could be contacted. I clicked on this girls name...and she's the author!

[lady-janine]

That is weird pasta.
The lesson from that is to stay from names you can remember.

[davebro]

One of my classmates:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Walne

[Bazile]

Have you got your frock ready for the re-union , pasta?

[Bobbisox1]

My husbands classmate was in Grammar school was John Steele of the Animals

[davebro]

I heard that Graham had the distinction of dating Babs out of Pan's People!

[Bazile]

I must be one of the few people who was said to leave school .

I was said to leave the sixth form

[davebro]

eh?

[rccatnap]

There were three of us who were best mates at school, one of whom, Jim, started work as a civil-servant in Whitehall and I worked around the corner for London Transport at 55, Broadway as a surveyor. We used to meet for lunch fairly regularly until he got fed up with office work and resigned to go to other fields. The second mate, Ken, took on another trade completely and we lost contact until I signed up with Friends Reunited. After a few weeks I was contacted by Ken who was living in the Midlands and I met up with him and his wife at a midway point between our homes. It turned out to be a surprisingly emotional event, as I learned that Jim had had a successful life designing ceramics for various high end firms around Europe, but sadly contracted a disfiguring form of cancer, from which he did not recover. Indeed, he and a few others were the subject of a TV programme some years ago covering these kinds of cancer. I regret not having seen this programme. However I am, thankfully, still in contact with Ken and his wife.