Were you one of the good kids or bad kids at school or just average?

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1. I was definitely a swot and one of the good kids but never really got any shit for it. I remember one arsehole who I felt was trying to (verbally, socially, not physically) bully me, but I vaguely think I gave as good as I got. I disliked him but was never afraid of him.I could be suitably gobby when the need arose.

   The boy who most people would have considered the roughest kid in the year – I got on fine with him for some reason. We weren’t friends, but were able to joke with each other.

2. I was a good kid, I never got into trouble. I wish I had tried harder too.

3. I was an exemplary student all throughout school, top grades, perfect attendance, never any trouble etc.

   Then at about year 10 I discovered cheap cider, fingering, and call of duty.

4. 10 A*s, loved school, miss it loads

5. I was bad from day 1. Expelled from 2 secondary schools.

   Funnily I now work in a school helping kids that are just like I was

6. The good, the bad, and the bored. I was the latter.

7. I was a loose cannon if I’m honest. Proper fruit pastel

   My kids on the other hand are exemplary. Think we brought wrongs one’s home from hospital

8. Bad kid, when I was in year 10 I was selling roll ups to year 8 kids and told them there was 5% weed in them. well some of the kids had some bad emotional epiphany or something and they started arguing with each other saying things like “you’re not the same guy anymore since you started the weed”, “you used to know about all the latest songs and movies and now you’re a druggie”. I don’t even think these kids were inhaling the smoke. Any way they grassed me up and I was excluded for **45 days**. Yes 45 days, not normal days but actual school days Monday-Friday. This was in November just before the half term, so I swear to god I left in November and I returned to school in February. I was then dropped from my Art GCSE because my coursework project had gone missing, so I used to just sit in the lesson doing other work. About 3 weeks before the GCSE exams the next year the teacher came up to me and told me the Head teacher had decided nobody will drop a class so I was back on the art GCSE. They had me stay in school until 6pm each day to try and hash some shit together. Then when I had a 10 hour art exam, I finished in 1 hour, said I was going to the toilet, went to the office and said I finished my History exam and they let me out with the history students. In the end I still got a D so if I actually tried I could have passed with a C. In the end I got 7 A-C grades, 1 A,1 B and 5 Cs.

9. Just disinterested and never did any work, regretted it after i left.

10. Somewhere in the middle. I acted up sometimes, worked hard sometimes but the majority of the time I was just disinterested.

    For most of year 11 I barely attended and was put on report and almost wasn’t allowed to sit my GCSEs.

11. I was average in secondary school. I didn’t cause trouble or talk back to teachers but I wasn’t academically gifted either. I just got along with people – chavs, popular students, strange students, no feuds/enemies or anything like that.

    It wasn’t until 6th form when I really put effort in and consistently scored A/A*, essentially becoming one of the ‘good kids’ I guess.

12. I had the classic undiagnosed autistic/ADHD kid thing of being “difficult” most of the way through primary school, but having it bullied out of me when I got older. Got into trouble a lot when I was little for talking back to teachers, throwing tantrums and not paying attention in class or doing the work, but by secondary school I was considered “well behaved” because I was quiet and got decent grades and wasn’t disruptive in class, even though I hated the place and scraped by doing the bare minimum. I was never one of the kids who got into smoking, drinking etc. at a young age purely because the ones who did that thought I was uncool and weird and did not talk to me.

13. Considered good by most teachers, hated by others. didn’t do any work…just skated all day every day and got wasted.

    Was a brilliant time.

    Only failed RE and IT…and got a handful of A’s and B’s.

14. I was mostly well behaved and got good grades, but my teachers hated me because I put in minimum effort and never said a word in class. Copied so much homework the day it was due in, even at A Levels, then the day before the exam learned the stuff.

15. Bad enough that I spent a lot of lessons sitting outside the classroom, to the extent that passing teachers would be surprised not to see me there during some lessons. But it was always minor things like being late to class, talking when I shouldn’t, leaning back on my chair, falling asleep, not having a pen, not wanting to take my scarf off if it was freezing cold in one of the prefabs, forgetting homework, etc, just being disorganised and tired, not being properly disruptive or mean to anyone.

    Actually I did sort of have a couple of minor fights, just the pushing-back type rather than actually hitting anyone, but it was defending myself against people who were trying to bully me, because it was a rough school where practically everyone kinda had to do that now and then (and it did work, and nobody was hurt).

    Probably would be diagnosed with ADHD if teenage me were going to school now, but adult me has learned coping mechanisms.

16. I was really good, my teachers liked me. My older brother was not. So when our poor little sister followed us up the grades she was always asked ‘are you like your brother or sister?’