The Best Years Of Your Life
 

The best years of your life, Schooldays, well they were theres no denying it.

How well I remember my first days at 'the big school' the year I started my Secondary Education was the first year that Comprehensive schools had been introduced into the area. A great theory that, lets put all the clever children and all the morons into one great melting pot and give them the chance of equal education.

So out went Grammar schools, out went streaming all of us with mixed abilities just lumped together in one over-crowded classroom.

Yes we did get equal education, any-one with an ounce of sense soon learnt that you don't prove yourself keen to learn in front of the lads whose idea of fun was pulling the legs off smaller children.

I did get branded a a 'swat' however, it was my own fault, I was showing off in the newsagents I suppose. One of our classes professional shop-lifters caught me working out how much change I would get from a 10 shilling note when buying 5 Park Drive!
Mental arithmatic! this boys a swat!

Due to this sort of thing I and other boys that were capable of tying their own shoe-laces without it ending up in a knot were DOOMED.

I did thanks to these boys however have some reasonable success with the girls in our class.

When they were asked how come you prefer Less to the rest of us?

The girls would say, "Well compared to the rest of you he smells so fresh and clean."

Well I would like to say a big thanks to those boys. By the way girls I can now tell you the secret, you would also smell clinically clean if you spent your playtimes with your head stuck down a toilet the caretaker had just poured San Izal into. Again all I can say is thanks lads!
Wash and go? I was one of the first!

Yes they were the best years of my life, I hope you have some equally fond memories, the funny thing though even today if I go into a public lavatory and smell disinfectant I still have an almost uncontrollable urge to stick my head in the toilet!
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I think Get a Grip does the same with sticking his head down the toilet. HA

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There are disadvantages with grammer schools as well Less. I found some statistics a while ago which showed that ex pupils of QEGS are more likely to become gay dressmakers than pupils of St Wilfreds C of E.

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20 to 25.

Good job, good salary with all the trappings that come with it :D , happy times for many reasons.

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Every year is the happiest year of my life. I live for the moment and I have my rose coloured spectacles on for most of the time.

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Don't you call quegs to me, my brother went there, some of the warmest knitted jumpers I get for Christmas come from him!

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my youngest son went to st wilfrids school in blackburn,,, it had a realy good reputation..:D

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Is this a stab against you know who which I do not fully understand ??? Think there may be some sort of private wind-up joke here, otherwise, I will definitely get very, very angry with you Neil. !!
My son attended QEGS, and a more well-adjusted, heterosexual, heading for a great career lad you couldn't come across, so explain yourself before I get very, very angry and explode into a tirade of resentment at your remarks against grammar school education and a great school :p

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What about bi's from QEGS, how did they fare?

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Don't be overly worried. I know a lot of ex QEGS students and some of them are straight with good jobs ;)

The old school rivalry still lives on - when i was at school we thought QEGS was a colony for rich gay kids.

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We weren't rich. In those days we only had an outdoor pool heated by solar power.:(

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I was only young but at least I was half right.

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...and now you're old, and still only ever half right.;)

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When did Accringtons Grammer School Close?
It was on Blackburn road wasn't it?

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Yes it was, there are flats on the site now.

Don't know when it ceased being the Grammar School, and joined forces with Accrington High School for Girls to become Moorhead.

1975?