Faither's second social comment feature is now up on BROKEN DOWN HALO.

It's on the Scottish Education system and can be read HERE and comment on it below

A lot of truths in what he says!

I liked primary, hated secondary and quite enjoyed technical college!

Many teachers are too full of themselves. If you ask one what he does for a living (before you know of course), most of them answer back - I'm a teacher, usually looking at you straight in the eye for approval.

Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of good teachers, but there are a lot of chancers too.

My Primary School experience was mixed, dependant on which teacher you were allocated for the year.
If you were lucky you got one that you respected and made learning interesting and enjoyable. On the other hand you could land up with some right weirdos; one who cuddled and kissed their class pets, ones whose preferred forms of punishment were to roll up your trouser leg and whack your thigh. There was even one who would give the kid on the receiving end of bad behaviour or bullying the belt.
We also had a lollipop man who hated children.
In short, it was a lottery; organised chaos at best, anarchy at worst.
In complete contrast, my two benefited from an excellent primary school education...

I'd like to write "And Another Thing #3 : Cones at Roundabouts", but i'll leave it to someone with a bit more experience

My recollections were Parkhill PS quite good, apart from an Auld Craw called Mrs Bennett who seemed to hate children.

Buckhaven HS bit mixed, prob cos we were a generally well behaved bunch at Parkhill whereas some of the BHS intake were from other schools that maybe werent quite so well behaved

I feel short-changed by the education system, it's designed to keep people in their places and sap their beliefs from them.

Just look at the TV schedules, there are no programmes that cater for people who want to learn, it's just brainless mulch, this is what the people want because they don't understand that anything better can exist.

As Eugene said; low expectations...

Primary was OK (I remember that all the young female teachers had big boobies..), but high school was a complete waste of time! (Apart from becoming a member of the Stinky Pinky Club!!)