Liz Truss - the first 100 days....

[BoldonLad]

State secondary modern. Back then, pre-Thatcher, even ordinary schools had playing fields and sports facilities. And free instrument lessons too. And school libraries…

Not in this area they didn’t, most didn’t even have indoor toilets 😊

 

[newfhouse]

Not in this area they didn’t, most didn’t even have indoor toilets 😊

Never did you any harm, I bet.

 

[BoldonLad]

Never did you any harm, I bet.

You are too kind 😊

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Get your lips round this...

ɑ̃.bu.ʃyʁ

 

[Salty seadog]

Your school had a cricket pavilion? Levelled up then were you?

Didn't we all have a cricket pavilion, tennis courts and a swimming pool at school? To be fair the swimming pool was outdoor, like the tennis courts.

 

[BoldonLad]

Didn't we all have a cricket pavilion, tennis courts and a swimming pool at school? To be fair the swimming pool was outdoor, like the tennis courts.

Since you ask… no

 

[Salty seadog]

Since you ask… no

Will we all bloody should have.

 

[newfhouse]

Will we all bloody should have.

This is the problem. It’s been normalised that the bare basics is all we should really expect from state education and if you want more for your kids you should either be paying privately or, if you’re able to buy a house in the catchment, pretending to follow a religious faith.

 

[BoldonLad]

Will we all bloody should have.

I didn't say otherwise. Just stating how it was, in my childhood, behind the Red Wall.

 

[Salty seadog]

This is the problem. It’s been normalised that the bare basics is all we should really expect from state education and if you want more for your kids you should either be paying privately or, if you’re able to buy a house in the catchment, pretending to follow a religious faith.

As with so many of the English ills I lay it at the door of the class system which is so ingrained. Old money and the wannabe new money holding down and punching down respectively.

 

[Salty seadog]

As with so many of the English ills I lay it at the door of the class system which is so ingrained. Old money and the wannabe new money holding down and punching down respectively.

Your turn.

 

[Unkraut]

Didn't we all have a cricket pavilion, tennis courts and a swimming pool at school? To be fair the swimming pool was outdoor, like the tennis courts.

 

[AuroraSaab]

Not in this area they didn’t, most didn’t even have indoor toilets 😊

My infant school had outdoor toilets. Not sure it was that unusual in Victorian schoolhouse buildings even in the 1960's.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Kids today, don't know how lucky they are. And that's before we get to the secondary school compulsory communal showers with the p.e. teacher joining us in them. We did have a sports field and cricket pavillion though. Different times.

 

[Rusty Nails]

We had indoor toilets. They were across the schoolyard but they had a roof over them so technically indoors.

This was my school.