This will open a can of worms.

[TWR]

Education at School, were you interested? did you get encouraged? did you get any help? before the Smart @rses condemn myself, "as many do" do you think this question is in the right place? or will the smart @rses require this to be put on somewhere more appropriate.

[LoftyLottie]

Loved Primary School, got my 11 plus, went to Grammar School, worked hardish until I reached about 15 but still got good results. Parents wanted me to go to Uni, but we compromised and I went to Tech for 2 years, didn't work hard because of boys and parties but still got good results and a good qualification. Was lucky because I didn't need to work hard to pass exams.

(Didn't enjoy school after Primary School - hate being regimented definitely not the best days of my life!! Glad I had parents who expected things of me but didn't push - without them I might well have gone off the rails)

[yogasun]

My story similar to Lottie's. Happy at primary and was only one of only four to pass the 11 plus and went to a grammar school. Did really well but definitely under achieved after 15/16 as I became very interested in 60's music! Big regret not going to university (only child and a little shy/homely)
However have had good jobs and feel I had a great education. My parents were not well off compared to others in my peer group but it didn't make any difference.

[China Doll]

Very bright at school but only ever applied myself to subjects I was interested in and was a distraction to others when I was bored, (frequently) much to many teachers distress. Often encouraged but far too bone idle to listen and I hated homework, I still hate homework. Never a naughty child but often quick with the back chat, lots of detentions and very good at debating but invaribly took the devils advocate side as that was more fun. I enjoyed school.... looking back I know the teachers were right and I was bright and should have applied myself more. But hindsight is easy. I still went on to college and uni and did pretty well. At best if I'd applied myself, I might have chosen to something vocational rather than an english lit degree, but I enjoyed my degree and doubt I'd change anything. I don't think I'd ever be a 'career' thinking person, mainly cause I'm still bone idle and hate homework! :c)

[LoftyLottie]

Homework was something I did on the bus to school and it was always late. But I loved English and Maths and Art and really they were the only subjects I was interested in at school. My parents were far from wealthy. Lived in a council flat in London until I was 15. Never made any difference to me that I didn't have wealthy parents. Dad worked himself up the ladder and parents ultimately were financially stable - people tend to think I come from a rich background for some reason.

[LoftyLottie]

And like China never career minded and since school have become interested in everything around me and have learned far more from the University of Life!!

[China Doll]

<Chukle> Much the same Lofty... I also used to do my homework on the bus. I liked English, Music, Drama and Biology. Everything else went to pot... As I've got older I find I now enjoy history, particularly the tudor period, but I have no memory for facts, just an interest in how people lived then and all the double dealings and politics. My family were also never wealthy, they still are not but I would think financially stable but that never held me back either. I earn more now than probably either of my parents did at my age and am content in my job, I only ever want to be comfortable and to not sweat the small things. I know I could earn more in the private sector... but imagine the amount of work I'd have to do in my own time, bleugh! Work to live and not the other way round for me! (I am still worried about my old age though, I need to win the lottery for that :c)

[firewatch]

To be fare school was my safe place and i didnt want to leave.
I was classed as special needs despite not having any problems,jst a case both my sister and brother had dyslexia so they thought i had it too. I do but not to the same extent,mostly down to the fact i made myself read books way above my reading ability.
I was bulliead senselessly through out my school life so i dont know why i enjoyed it so much.
Only a few teachers encouraged my work, mostly art and creativity as thats how my brain works.

[LoftyLottie]

Forgot China I loved Music and Drama too, and anything to do with dance. Sport was a nightmare, except having long legs I could run fast. I hated anything to do with 'teams' and detested wearing a school uniform.

[LoftyLottie]

.................. oh, and am very interested now in history, geography, biology - most things really and it is so easy these days to teach yourself in subjects that interest you, especially with the advent of the World Wide Web and the ability to travel to far flung places!!

[craft1948]

My parents expected my sister to pass the 11 plus, but she didn't. When I was successful I got the impression they were both astonished and dismayed (by the cost of the uniform).

[Baldric]

Why should a perfectly straightforward question 'open a can of worms'
Why would it not be in the right place?
What concerns me more is why the OPer feels the need to be so confrontational in his post.

[Mosaic]

I was a very bright overtly compliant child. Enjoyed the later years of primary school - learned to dislike the system as represented by the grammar school ie spiteful twisted adults being left in charge of young minds. Learned to be covertly disruptive and destructive, with a blank face. Nearly left after GCEs but stuck with 6th form to get to uni. Most of what I learned in lessons at the grammar school is now utterly redundant but I have often used the blank face and got away with mayhem.

[JonnyBoy12]

Our favourite subject at school was English and especially spelling and grammar. That is why we hate people who can not spell.

Signed

The Spelling Police.