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RE: Dpoll 54: How was your time at school?/Is school needed to be successful in life?
Generally, had the best time of my life in school. Not because of study, but to have friends. We have this undercover cop teacher in my class. After school he often took us to his studio and coach us to start a band rather than smoking crack and hangout at the arcade. I didn't get good grade, but I had loads of fun, and that philosophy continue to shape who I am 🙃
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Good to hear you had a great time. A teacher makes the difference. With us schoolbstarts at the age of 4-18 (law) all those years were great for you? 💕
I can't remember much in my kindergarten, but generally it was alright.
My first grade teacher is very fierce, but now I think it's just the way it is. It's not kindergarten anymore, I'm facing bigger crowd and bigger kids around. By right the teachers supposed to act different compare to kindergarten? But it was alright, at least I didn't ran out of school and gotten run over by a truck.
4th grade was a nightmare. The teacher has a same surname as me, but I think she doesn't like me. He complaints the shit out of me and got my mom had my ass whipped. Few years ago, I met the teacher again, after 30 over years she can still remember my name. She was saying she does that because she has high expectation in me since we're from the same root(Chinese stuff, we see same surname as close relatives). Now that I think of it, I should thank her for keeping me in school and informing my mom on all my wrong doings.
Some of the years, I got to the worst class of that grade, and the teacher doesn't give a flying fish to us and leave us do whatever we want. So, those years I have some good sleep in school.
I can remember one Kindergarten hardly... I know it was the first year. I walked home alone a long distance (years later I went back and drove it by car) and I sat crying on the steps outside because my mother was not at home/opened the door.
I do not remember kindergarten but that plus my sister and I had to walk to my granny. It was even a longer way plus lots of traffic.
We moved and went to a new kindergarten. That teacher was kind and had the task to take care of three sick children. I remember the schooling, the plastic blue bekers, playing outside, sleeping on mattresses after she told us a story...
We do no longer have kindergarten. At that time you had to go to school at the age of 7 now it is 4 years old.
The next school was very old fashioned. I remember the first year... Too many children. A part of them had to leave with a terrible teacher to the auditorium. We had her for two years. She was old, drilled us, set us up against each other... I never had the kind teachers plus I was on a white school. The only foreigners they knew at that time were gypsies and gypsies were famous for stealing.
The headmaster was extremely fat, did beat you up. Years later an old schoolmate told me he left his family because he is gay and lived in a caravan. That man was the first who said I was too stupid to learn, couldn't even make it to housekeeping school (that school no longer exists). It was one of the few times my father went to school - furious - to tell that terrible man his opinion.
Highschool was better. I visited three different schools. The last one was in the South of the Netherlands and Catholic. The principal told me I would have a hard time because I didn't speak the dialect and the people are hostile against people out of the west part of the country. I thought he was kidding me but he was right.
I was happy I left school After I had my diploma I mainly did home study and worked next to it. 💕