How bad were you in school?

[Stephanie]

Too many things that I will ever admit to you guys.....

Aw, c'mon Breeze!!!!

[pojo]

I was a boring student too. My grandmother used to be the secretary at my high school, so my cousin (who is a year older than me), myself and my little brother were on "watch". My brother is still on watch because he is a junior. If we were in trouble...we were reprimanded by the Principal, my mom, my dad, my step-dad, and then my grandmother! So...it was a bad idea to get in trouble. Most of the other secretaries remember my grandmother, so we HAD to behave...NO IF ANDS OR BUTTS!

I was mainly the angel, but on the other hand, by little brother was the nuisance! I'm not going into detail about what he did, but it was bad (All during Kindergarten through 2nd grade!) now a days...he's pretty much an angel.

There was times that my yearbook was passed around, with only a few signatures when it returned back to me.

[Guest]

Yea come on Breeze.....Nothing could be worse then what i did. :o This goes for everyone else as well....

[breeze]

Oh, ok - I'll just casually mention....smoked ciggies and signed my mom's
name to the permit cuz I was so good at copying her sig...got caught smoking POT outside the high school gym...got caught helping
friends who brought BOOZE in...(*and, helped them drink it)....got caught
skipping school with older friends who had vehicles......sat in
detention hall and slipped out teacher's mail and BURNED it so noone
would ever find it.....ahhhh...those days of being a C student.....got me
by and I graduated and made a nurse.......... LoL!

[Stormsfury]

Now until high school did I show the rebellious stage ... and at times, badly ... I wasn't violent or nothing, just had a problem with certain authority figures because of their prejudices in regards to not being actively involved in school activities ... Summerville was very bad about that.

[Guest]

What??? Am i the only person here who attended a school who let you smoke?? Well we were allowed to during lunch outside where the busses picked you up. You could sneak one in as well when you had to walk across the bus pick up area going to another class...I will add that they changed it a few years later after i was gone...
And by the way it was this way untill the early 90s
I am intrested in knowing this....Thanks everyone.

[Stormsfury]

What??? Am i the only person here who attended a school who let you smoke?? Well we were allowed to during lunch outside where the busses picked you up. You could sneak one in as well when you had to walk across the bus pick up area going to another class...I will add that they changed it a few years later after i was gone...
And by the way it was this way untill the early 90s
I am intrested in knowing this....Thanks everyone.

All the schools I went to did not allow smoking and up until now, your school is the first one that I've heard about that allowed smoking.

[breeze]

KOW - if a parent signed the permit to smoke, we
could. I always graciously forged my mother's signature.
Of course, that didn't include drinking booze and smoking
the illegal stuff.....

[pojo]

I guess I'm not the only one that has forged my mother signature (It's really easy!)

[breeze]

Oh, rats....it's just too easy....... 8)

[CajunMama]

I did the smoking in the bathroom. Other than that I was a goody two shoes. No sneaking out, in the house for my curfew. But then COLLEGE HAPPENED! Learned to cut class despite the fact that my dad now was paying for my education. Learned how to drink! 4 drinks for $1 on Friday afternoons (the semester I had a 2pm Biology lecture was a bummer, did bring in a drink or 2 tho!) I majored in sorority life & partying! WhooHoo!

[weatherlover427]

My school did a crackdown on that in I think either 9th or 11th grade, can't remember which. I never did it, but many others did.

[streetsoldier]

College was, for me, a much different story; I "owned" the campus, straight A's, and was a member of three Greek societies (one scholastic honors, one business, one social) and an officer in all three.

I also spent more than my fair share of time partying (!), including the infamous Pepsi dispenser in the basement of my frat house, which was loaded with BEER...one button was called the "suicide slot", unmarked, because "you pays your quarter and takes your chances"...whatever came out, that's what you drank.

At the same time, I had a part-time job as an assistant curator in the Art Gallery AND ran a Civil Air Patrol air-ground SAR squadron as its Commander..when I wasn't at the Varsity Theatre in the stage cast of the "Rocky Horror Picture Show". :o

[vbhoutex]

My high school allowed smoking in one certain area in 1968! It was considered a very progressive College Preparatory School when I started there my junior year, second only to Nova High School for you Floridans! My senior year it was just a regular school imo and nothing more. It changed a lot after the teachers strike in '68.

[weatherlover427]

My high school here in CA was kick back. The roof leaked and they didn't care, they let students make out in public (which I loved to see ), they allowed you to wear hats to school (and in class, but a few teachers didn't), they let you cuss some in class, etc. My high school in Florida didn't allow any of that.

[ColdFront77]

Odd that you had to get permission to smoke cigarettes in high school. Something that should have been automatically prohibited.

I also never heard of being allowed to cuss. Why would authority figures (at school) allow such things?

[weatherlover427]

It wasn't like we were allowed to regularly say s***, f, etc. They pretty much let occasional slip-ups go. Now if you were a habitual cusser, that was frowned upon. That reminds me, I think I forgot to mention my 5 minute tirade against my algebra teacher in 9th grade (and I avoided detention, suspension, a referral, demerits, everything! )

[Stephanie]

What??? Am i the only person here who attended a school who let you smoke?? Well we were allowed to during lunch outside where the busses picked you up. You could sneak one in as well when you had to walk across the bus pick up area going to another class...I will add that they changed it a few years later after i was gone...
And by the way it was this way untill the early 90s
I am intrested in knowing this....Thanks everyone.

Actually, when I was in NY before moving to NJ, we had a "smoking pit" outside of the school. If we didn't have classes (free period), we were able to roam free and hang out there. When I moved to NJ, we neede hallway passes, couldn't smoke anywhere near the building...I felt like I was in a glorified Junior High!

Talk about culture shock!!!! :o No wonder why I became so rebellious after moving down here!

[Amanzi]

Hmm well I dont think I will be parting with all my school secrets just yet

I was an angel at kindergarten up to my first year of high school. The High schools in South Africa are mostly all, if not all either all boys or all girls. Very rigid and would not stand for one swear word, and if you got caught smoking you were expelled instantly. In my days at school I kept very much to myself but was privy to a small group of girls (went to an all girls High School) In the first term of my High School career, I got caught smoking in the toilet and was politely asked to leave the school, lest I give it a bad name (too late she cried!) So it was off to another all girls High School. I baffled the teachers getting A's in subjects I liked and F's in subjects I hated. In math class I used to read and eventually got a seat outside the class with my name on it, and that is where I spent the rest of the year. When it came to year end exams, I wrote my name on the paper and left the room (they did give me 2 marks for wrighting my name!) I ended up winning the Drama honors blazer and the Biology blazer 3 years running, much to my schools disgust (we wore uniforms, brown skirts,white shirts, long sleeves in winter, a tie and brown hats. If you got honors your blazer was different from the normal brown ones) The schools in South Africa are very very different to the schools here, all have uniforms. Girls have to wear a certain color underware (yes the teachers checked!) your skirt had to be exactly 2 fingers above your knee-cap, your socks had to be 4 fingers from the top of your ankle, nails were not allowed to be over the tops of your finger. No jewelery, No dyed hair or strange hair cuts. If you had long hair it had to be tied up with the school color pony holders, not one hair was allowed on your face. Your school shoes were to be polished daily. The boys were the same, they had hair inspections too, no hair touching the ears or the back of the shirt colar, shiny shoes and ironed clothes at all times. Most girls, myself included went to finishing or deportment school learned how to wear clothes that matched and which fork to use at a dinner party. Quite funny actually. Guess South Africa never really got rid of the old fashioned collonial lifestyle alltogether now did they!

I had a very sharp tongue which got me into detention weekly. It was never disrespectful, but I had a problem with authority and had very different opinions to many of my teachers and refused to keep quiet. So in the detention hall I had a chair with my name on it too! (anyone see a pattern here?) lol

Well in the last term of my Matric year (last year of high school) my parents suffered a huge financial loss, and I was unable to continue high school. Education is not free in South Africa! Those are pretty much my tales of school, oh and you had to do some school sport, it was compulsary. I was head of the drama department and captain of the gymnastic club. The poor school did not know quite what to do with me.