i smoked heaps of weed and played in a metal band

i would have been friends with you shaun.

very glad when it was finally over. wouldn't want to go back to some school reunion.

In a word, AWESOME. Met some awesome people who are still my closest friends to this day, had a lot of awesome parties, went to a lot of awesome parties, went on an awesome exchange trip that is probably my most memorable experience to date, had some awesome teachers. Life was so much easier in high school.

Wow Judy that sounds like everything high school wasn't for me.

It was like living in a kind of paradise city, where the grass was green and the girls were pretty.

I had a boring but not unpleasant high school experience. I went to the same school from grade 1 to 12, and it was quite a new school (I started grade 1 the third year it was open) so I probably got away with fair bit more than I would otherwise as I’d been there for longer than most students or teachers. I kind of slacked off in class, and got invited to parties/social thingys but usually preferred to stay at home, play guitar and watch rage. Didn’t drink as I had stomach issues but occasionally had jazz cigarettes. I got along with pretty much everyone in my grade and liked them enough, but had no intention of seeing them outside school, let alone after school finished.

I was CAPTAIN of the fucking debating team. Oh yeah!

meh, High School was okay for me, probably because I was incredibly oblivious to how uncool I was. Nobody seemed to particularly hate me and I had some pretty awesome friends.

Met my friends there, still friends today (lived with 2 of them for a while).
Got a decent education.

Had to deal with the rich coolsie types (who got 911s for their 18th birthday)

I remember the time fondly, but not the institution.

I remember those coolsie types crying on the last day of school because they inately knew that their time as top dog was over. I still remember seeing them wearing their school sports jackets and stuff at Uni.

Overall i loved hanging with my friends, being able to learn cool stuff, having little real stress, having my sports and stuff organised for me and really just being able to be free.

Pity there were enough dickheads to there to cast negatives over the experience

pretty crappy. i had 'problems' apparently and was a horrible teenager to deal with. bit of an outcast, but with a solid social circle. some teachers i got along with. others i made life hell for.

and i had tammy morgan pick on me every single day for a three year period.

i hated school.

a pretty nerdy/daggy affair up until year 11's bong-fuelled descent into isolation, averageness and mariokart n64. i still kinda liked it, though. missed the order of highschool when i got to uni.

most of my mates now are from high school, so thats a plus. i spent every lunch-time in the music room, sometimes after school too. I hated the jocks, got along better with the nerds, though was too scared to be friends with them for fear of being ridiculed by the metal dudes. smoked a lot of weed and hash from year 9 to year 12, never got in a fight.. still have never been in a fight actually. used to take great joy in playing inappropriate songs in weekly chapel - like fade to black by metallica, or one or something. had some good times, had some super shit times. glad it's over. i went to a reunion recently (13 years or so) and actually most of the guys (all boys school) were pretty cool to talk to. still a couple of wankers though.

I went to 4 high schools.

One included a Fijian boarding school where I had to wake up at 4am each morning to cane knife the weeds from the school swimming pool. We all had chores (slavery) to do. There was corporal punishment and I lost 20kgs from the poor diet I was forced to eat. I lasted only a few months. Ended up transferring to the international school which I loved. I miss Fiji.

When I came back to Oz after 3 years in Fiji, I was the book nerd that hung out with the stoners. I quit high school a week before the HSC and havent looked back since.

High School? Lots of this:

It was pretty hideous. The only plus for me is that my best friends are all from high school.

But yeah, it was an all boys English school, full of evil bullies and mostly sadistic teachers. I was kind of an outcast a bit, but because I was always getting into trouble with teachers for not doing enough work, I think I got spared from being beaten up by the jocks too much as I was regarded as a bit of a weird nerdy rebel.

what JRB said.

that, and learning how to shred.

i went to a selective high school - the same one as hillbong, oddly, although we were in different grades and din't know each other - and for that i'm eternally thankful. i wouldn't have survived six years at my local high school, nor would i have enjoyed the private school experience (not that my parents could have afforded that shit).

i had good teachers (mostly) and got decent (although not spectacular) marks. i got along with pretty much everybody. i didn't get beaten up - nobody really did. (although ian conn did try to cut my hair a few times - i think my long locks threatened his sexuality.) my group of friends slotted squarely between the ''popular kids'' and the ''geeks'' (although those terms are relative; we were all geeks in a way, it's just that the popular kids wore cons and listened to sonic youth). i even got to go to the year ten formal with the girl everyone considered to be the hottest in the grade.

so yeah, it was okay. primary school, though... don't wanna talk about it.

I was class captain from years 7 till 10 (I changed schools for VCE to go to a more ''progressive'' inner city high school that let me do year 12 physics and literature in year 11) and said progressive high school didn't have student leadership positions of any kind whatsoever. They also encouraged no extra-curricular activities whatsoever besides smoking bongs in the Princes Park and beer drinking competitions at the Empress on Friday nights. Those were the days.

drifter with good value. used to play gigs in syd when i was 17. still couldn't get laid.

Ha ha I was finished with D&D by the time I got to high school. Was still a real nerd though, shy, anxious and generally unpopular with my peers. Only had the one girlfriend for one week in Year 7; played a lot of hand-tennis and cards and in year 11 and 12 spent a lot of time by myself watching videos and reading books.

I knew there was a big world out there and couldn't wait to leave.

Same.

I have contact with exactly 2 people from school and do not care for the rest, who last time I checked, have mainly all bought bogan McMansions 1 suburb away from where they grew up, shat out some spawn with their high school girlfriends or best mates younger sister and are living the time honored WA “cash from the mines” lifestyle (work, sink piss, play footy).

Sounds familiar - Camden represent!

So i bought a bass guitar in year 9 and learnt a heap of Jaco Pastorius and Victor Wooten solos

this gave me a big laugh

The more I think about actually being at high school, the worse my time there was. I'm not necessarily regretful, but I do wish I could give some pertinant advice to high-school-aged me which might have made everything a little more pleasant.

The Mac mansion lifestyle obviously makes some people happy. If they were less energy guzzlers i would have no problem with what they do. It's not like anyone in my immediate family could afford to buy such a luxurious house, but why would you want to tie yourself down in the burbs, unless all your support networks were there?

you just answered your own question...

in other words, if that's someones idea of success, so be it. Just cut down on your carbon footprint.

I am slightly jealous of morons who own there own home. I've always craved that level of security, but its not like i could ever fit in there anyway. Maybe that's how a lot of people feel.

I did alright for someone who was teased for the first 2 years of high school with no respite. I became a music room kid and I think the country town high school experience is much better than what I hear a metropolitan high school experience is.

The high point of my time in high school was when I managed to give so much shit to the annoying jerks at the handball court they all rushed me at once. I got picked up and thrown into a wall, at which point they proceeded to kick the shit out of me. The fact I was laughing maniacally at the time seemed to freak them out and they stopped before I lost any teeth. I do still have some scars from where I hit the wall, though.

I have contact with exactly 2 people from school and do not care for the rest, who last time I checked, have mainly all bought bogan McMansions 1 suburb away from where they grew up, shat out some spawn with their high school girlfriends or best mates younger sister and are living the time honored WA “cash from the mines” lifestyle (work, sink piss, play footy).

Ugh. I hated these type of people... the dreams (home ownership, steady relationship, spawning young) aren't bad in themselves, but despite the fact that this was never what I wanted for my life, these people acted so fucking superior because they were well on the way. Some still act superior, even though their debt is skyrocketing and their husbands are doing the dirty...

I have contact with 1 person from highschool. She tells me what all the other people from highschool are up to. It mostly seems to be, getting pregnant, getting someone pregnant, getting in car accidents, buying houses, all of this still in my home town.

So, who is more irritating, cashed up mac mansion owners or hipsters?

I became a music room kid and I think the country town high school experience is much better than what I hear a metropolitan high school experience is.

Yes.

I tend to disagree, i think going to an inner city school was a much better experience for me than going to a suburban or country school.

pretty shit until year 9. i probably would have got bashed more often if i wasn't under the protection of my older cousin.

in year 9 i punched a girl in the face as i was coming off the school ovals after PE.

everything changed after that. aced tests. sport house captain. captain of the debating team. all that shit.

I was a little fat kid. dirty and horrible.

now I'm a medium muscular bloke. clean and beautiful.

i went to an international school, a private high school and then graduated from a public school. an interesting mix, politically and socially at least. i often wonder what my life would have been like had i not had to leave the international school and the private high school. i think had i not been so emotionally unstable (like 'medication and psych ward' unstable), i would have gotten more out of the high school experience but as it was i avoided most things.

Horrible. The kids wouldn't listen, simply didn't want to learn. I tried my best to teach them the joys of William Butler Yeats but they simple spat at me when I walked the corridors. I thought the drama kids would be open to Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco but they wanted to do an adpation of Harry Potter instead.

Needless to say, I didn't last long. On my last day, in the staff room the PE teacher called me a faggot and punched me in the arm, which forced my piping-hot tea to splash up onto my chest and in my face, scalding me. The resulting tears resulted in mockery and laughter from the other teachers who witnessed the event.

I have been unemployed ever since.

M+N has been great for the laughs today. Must be the full moon.

Two thumbs up, Morris.