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Re: What do you remember about CSEs from school?
you could do both if you picked the other one as one of your free options.
I hated my history teacher and had a serious crush on my Geo teacher, so no contest! |
Re: What do you remember about CSEs from school?
Originally Posted by bats
(Post 11556685)
Oops, assimilated moment. Loon trousers
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Re: What do you remember about CSEs from school?
Originally Posted by Souvy
(Post 11556705)
What is this thing with History and Geography? It was the same in my high school. You did both for the first two years but in the two years running up to O-level, you had to pick one. That's a shame. I would have liked to do both.
I found history, either on it's own or paired, to be dead boring. Tudors and Stuarts; Chippendale furniture (the strippers would likely have been more interesting) and someone or other's Fireplaces; Boston Tea Party...that's really all I can remember. I recall actually having to draw some Chippendale furniture as part of the lesson. :blink: |
Re: What do you remember about CSEs from school?
Originally Posted by Zoe Bell
(Post 11556701)
I had a mildly unusual education in that I attended a middle school until the age of 12. When you went to high school , you went straight into third form ( there was no first or second form)
I did Latin for the last two years of middle school and for the first two years of high school, until you took your "options" when I dropped it quicker than a red hot coal. The national curriculum was just coming in, limiting what options we were allowed. Basically you picked History or Geography. Then a "technology" subject ( I ended up doing child development , don't ask , just don't!) then you had two "free choices" I opted for business studies and what was called " keyboarding" ( was really typing and transcription) I was told in no uncertain terms that "people of my ability didn't take those kind of subjects" so I ended up doing German and another course that escapes me at the moment. All GCSEs So now I can order a beer in German but can't touch type. Just remembered , it was religious studies" - again tres useful! I wanted to go to evening classes to learn typing but was told that "no girl educated in this establishment should ever have to earn a living by typing" a little short sighted of them. |
Re: What do you remember about CSEs from school?
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 11556713)
Actually, loons were generally advertised as loon pants anyway. At least in the NME, spunos, Melody Maker etc
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Re: What do you remember about CSEs from school?
Originally Posted by bats
(Post 11556729)
Ah yes! You ordered them from NME,
I bought jeans called Jingling Joe's (a bell on the leg) and pink trousers from there. |
Re: What do you remember about CSEs from school?
Originally Posted by bats
(Post 11556727)
I did both History and Geography. The History teacher was amazing and left me with a lifelong love of the subject. The Geography teacher we had for O level told us that she wasn't going to teach us Geog but how to pass a Geog O level.
My parents were understanding about my reasons for not choosing history, but believed it was a Very Important subject & so homeschooled me in it. I wasn't too keen on that at the time, but appreciate it now :). (My (quite academically oriented) family were big on home-tutoring: I chose Spanish over German, reasoning that it was a) an easy option, & b) if I did German & didn't get good marks, I'd be stuck with "extra lessons" from Grandpa. Much goofing off & bad reports in Spanish (& Latin to a lesser extent) eventually led to the discovery that Grandma was more than capable of sorting out my Spanish & Latin... ;) Despite my resentment, her Spanish lessons were made amazing through her anecdotes & reminiscences of working in Spain in the 'twenties! Latin? She was such a "Drill sergeant" that I buckled down & worked my arse off to avoid ever having to study with her again!!!!). I wanted to go to evening classes to learn typing but was told that "no girl educated in this establishment should ever have to earn a living by typing" a little short sighted of them. |
Re: What do you remember about CSEs from school?
Originally Posted by Shirtback
(Post 11556755)
History was my all time favourite subject. Until an horrendously awful & incompetent teacher killed all the joy. I chose geography to get away from her. That teacher was boring, but I ended up liking geog.
My parents were understanding about my reasons for not choosing history, but believed it was a Very Important subject & so homeschooled me in it. I wasn't too keen on that at the time, but appreciate it now :). (My (quite academically oriented) family were big on home-tutoring: I chose Spanish over German, reasoning that it was a) an easy option, & b) if I did German & didn't get good marks, I'd be stuck with "extra lessons" from Grandpa. Much goofing off & bad reports in Spanish (& Latin to a lesser extent) eventually led to the discovery that Grandma was more than capable of sorting out my Spanish & Latin... ;) Despite my resentment, her Spanish lessons were made amazing through her anecdotes & reminiscences of working in Spain in the 'twenties! Latin? She was such a "Drill sergeant" that I buckled down & worked my arse off to avoid ever having to study with her again!!!!). :lol: We *did* go to very similar schools: I was refused the evening typing class option because my "calibre" made them "unnecessary"! :rofl::rofl: I still have all my school reports. There is a classic from my first year at high school, when we were forced to do things like woodwork, metalwork and pottery (until our parents forced a change). The woodworking teacher remarked that I did not enjoy the subject much. That makes me laugh. It's now my hobby. I've made a lot of the furniture in my house. |
Re: What do you remember about CSEs from school?
Originally Posted by Shirtback
(Post 11556755)
:lol: We *did* go to very similar schools: I was refused the evening typing class option because my "calibre" made them "unnecessary"! :rofl::rofl: Of course the German I was forced to learn comes in useful everyday - NOT |
Re: What do you remember about CSEs from school?
Originally Posted by Zoe Bell
(Post 11556778)
seems to be a theme. I never learnt to type properly. I am now in the awkward situation of being reasonably fast with two fingers so that if I attempted to learn "properly" I'd be so slow as to be unproductive for far too long.
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Re: What do you remember about CSEs from school?
I dropped German as soon as I could. The French exam was so complicated that I did no revision and thought the time would be better spent revising other subjects. I passed them all except French. Later I moved in with a German girlfriend, in Augsburg, never learned much German as all the locals wanted to practice English. After that, I moved in with a French girlfriend, Dordogne this time. The lady and her kids only ever spoke French to me and I picked it up quite well. Now in Canada, where my French puts the Quebecois to shame and they speak to me in English. C'est la vie!
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Re: What do you remember about CSEs from school?
Originally Posted by Zoe Bell
(Post 11556778)
seems to be a theme. I never learnt to type properly. I am now in the awkward situation of being reasonably fast with two fingers so that if I attempted to learn "properly" I'd be so slow as to be unproductive for far too long.
Of course the German I was forced to learn comes in useful everyday - NOT I type fast. I have no idea which fingers I'm using. They seem to know where to go, even if it is at the other end of the keyboard. |
Re: What do you remember about CSEs from school?
Originally Posted by Souvy
(Post 11556836)
Only two?
I type fast. I have no idea which fingers I'm using. They seem to know where to go, even if it is at the other end of the keyboard. |
Re: What do you remember about CSEs from school?
Originally Posted by Souvy
(Post 11556836)
Only two?
I type fast. I have no idea which fingers I'm using. They seem to know where to go, even if it is at the other end of the keyboard. |
Re: What do you remember about CSEs from school?
Originally Posted by Almost Canadian
(Post 11557009)
I was taught to touch type in the Army. They had a Mavis Beacon type of lesson approach and one had to reach a speed of 60 wpm with a 98% accuracy. It took me a number of attempts to pass. The keyboard they used for the test was blank - nothing on it at all, and the text we had to type used just about every shift key there was
The founder of the company I work for had a savage test for people back in the 70s, apparently. You had to add up all the phone numbers from a page in the directory without looking at the calculator. |
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