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• 29/08/2008 @ 09:40 Wolfie said

  

  What a shame you don't remember school with fondness ... it can be such a wonderful experience - I really hope that you daughter is happy there Wxxxx

• 29/08/2008 @ 10:09 UMxx said

  

  Oh yes she is very excited about attending the school - it is our local and has an excellent academic record - consistently beats the private schools and some rush to attend. Right now it is about my daughter wanting to be with her friends - I was keen for her to attend a more normal school which has more than academic depth - and co-ed but it was not to be.

  I think I spent too much time with depression as an adolescent and that has coloured my memory. There are some moments that I remember with a huge smile but it was of the people and not of the process or the organisation that the school was.

• 29/08/2008 @ 11:56 inspire said

  

  Oh, I thought I was the only one feeling this way about school. Although I had rather close attachments in the younger school years, as I went up in years, there was nothing huge to hold onto. Like you, the memories are with people and not about school specifically ...
  *Phew* You've made me feel normal once again!
  Lots of love, Inspire xxx

• 29/08/2008 @ 12:36 Jomo said

  

  school. yuk. school awful. yuk. school stinks. yuk.

• 29/08/2008 @ 19:20 harmony said

  

  
  Um,
  I hope your daughter will love her high school when she goes.

  I loved school from yr 3 to yr 10 - it was my escape and I felt safe and I loved all the sports.

  At 15 I brielfy went to a Convert boarding school - which at some point wil be another brick story!
  Love Harmony

• 30/08/2008 @ 02:35 Jomo said

  

  Maid - hope your daughter likes her school - my kids to my amazement, loved school -

  I didn't go to school for a long time - was "taught" at home until I was nearly 13, then sent away to a dreary, dreadful, under-manned, careless and horrible boarding school - which was my first encounter with other children other than my sister - and was NOT FUN AT ALL.

  
  There probably won't be a brick about that. Brrr. It would be too hard. yuk yuk yuk.

  But your daughter, she will find it different, as my kids did - so, sorry Maid, didn't mean to put a damper on that for ya -

  Jo

• 30/08/2008 @ 10:56 UMxx said

  

  I am chuckling Jo - you didn't put a damper on anything by being honest. Goodness knows how she will feel about school - if she is happy I will be delighted and if she finds it tough going then I have been there and think I know what to do.

  I used to dream of living on a property in the bush and doing "school of the air" but I didn't want to live with my family. As for boarding school - I would prefer to be eaten live by rabid rats. I'm sure that I would have died inside - and be a walking shell. The only way I coped as a teenager was to live in the backyard when I could ( ie when it wasn't too cold).

• 30/08/2008 @ 11:08 Jomo said

  

  We never did school of the air - it was Correspondance School - from Sth Aust, as the NT was governed from Sth Aust back then.

  Beguiled by that lying Enid Blyton, I thought that boarding school would be fun - bleah!

  Actually, it was somewhat similar to being eaten alive by rabid rats for a totally screwed up and extremely weird kid from the bush to land amongst a load of almost unsupervised kids - I did not even know how to play with kids. I was never a child. I was treated as an adult, with adult responsibilities and punishments from way back - so silliness, giggling, lying, all the kid-stuff, was foreign. Ah, me.

  
  I didn't understand the slang, the motivations, anything at all. Brrrrr.