There goes my little girl...

[Winston001]

I'm feeling all soppy from reading this. My youngest finishes primary school in a few weeks and you have reminded me I must go into class with her one more morning, just to say hi to her friends and teacher.

I well remember our oldest daughter starting school and what an angel she was then. It was a poignant day 10 years ago. Now she knows everything, mum and dad are oldies, and her friends are either bitches or best mates......

[martybabe]

. I believe the number of children you have shouldn't exceed the number of hands you have

Aha, maybe that's why they called me 'seven hands' at school.....or was that seven bellies Kids can be so cruel.

Coincidentally, I've just visited an old time school with ink pots, splintery seats and Janet and John books, anyone remember them? took me right back. Happy days, well some of them.

[PrincessBandit]

Time has flown. So many precious moments. I know there are more to come but it is like a chapter is closed and I can't go back.
She is my eldest but will always be my little girl.

The time sure does fly; keep those precious memories tucked away to treasure (especially when they have their "not so lovable" moments!)

Can't wait till the menace and the tantrum get packed off to school, Pity they got rid of the strap.

Edit.

Dawned on me that capital punishment wasn't what I was meaning to refer to, Just a tad harsh.

Um yes, capital punishment is a weeny bit on the harsh side for school! I would love to see corporal punishment reinstated sometimes (but for some students, one of whom put on an epic display of tanty throwing complete with language to scorch the air, capital is might tempting....) She was a 3rd former too!

[Headbanger]

Um yes, capital punishment is a weeny bit on the harsh side for school! I would love to see corporal punishment reinstated sometimes (but for some students, one of whom put on an epic display of tanty throwing complete with language to scorch the air, capital is might tempting....) She was a 3rd former too!

Must be time for me to reminisce.

I went to a nice school, Most of my fellow students are no doubt in jails all around NZ, I remember in science when a young lass thought it would be funny as all hell to fill a syringe with acid and squirt it into a young lads eye, Now, he screamed a fair bit, and the science teacher snapped, and grabbing his cane struck the young lass repeatedly across the face.

He then went on to teach at an all girls school.

Young lass in question was an excellent rugby player. I would assume by now she has grown a penis and joined the Black Power.

I also remember getting caned so hard on the arse I had 3 deep grooves that were oozing blood. And another time I was taken into the staff room and caned in front of all my teachers.LMFAO.Probably explains a lot.

[Hitcher]

I also remember getting caned so hard on the arse I had 3 deep grooves that were oozing blood. And another time I was taken into the staff room and caned in front of all my teachers.

Pah! Pussies. At the school I went to, people were regularly caned until they died. Sometimes repeatedly. I know this cause I was.

[martybabe]

Pah! Pussies. At the school I went to, people were regularly caned until they died. Sometimes repeatedly. I know this cause I was.

Meh, that's more like a hotel than a school. I once missed an apostrophe out of an essay, so they repeatedly ran a truck over my head, picked me up and caned me ,then put my whole body in a blender and fed me to the school cat.

It's all' goo'd thou'gh, I' le'arn't m'y les'son, 'I d'on't mi'ss e'm o''ut any' mo're.

[FJRider]

Meh, that's more like a hotel than a school. I once missed an apostrophe out of an essay, so they repeatedly ran a truck over my head, picked me up and caned me ,then put my whole body in a blender and fed me to the school cat.

It's all' goo'd thou'gh, I' le'arn't m'y les'son, 'I d'on't mi'ss e'm o''ut any' mo're.

I never had teachers like that, but I lived in a rural area... and we had it tough. I had to walk five miles to school, each way uphill, barefoot, in the snow. To pass the time, I read books...that way, by the time I got highschool, I knew everything...

[slofox]

Coincidentally, I've just visited an old time school with ink pots, splintery seats and Janet and John books, anyone remember them? took me right back. Happy days, well some of them.

I went to one of those. I was disappointed that I was just too late to use the inkwells - they had been made obsolete by the dawning of the fountain pen age.........I DID blink, didn't I.....

[slofox]

Meh, that's more like a hotel than a school. I once missed an apostrophe out of an essay, so they repeatedly ran a truck over my head, picked me up and caned me ,then put my whole body in a blender and fed me to the school cat.

It's all' goo'd thou'gh, I' le'arn't m'y les'son, 'I d'on't mi'ss e'm o''ut any' mo're.

Huh! Pansies! Pantywaists! Wrapped in cotton wool and stored in glass cases!!!!
Now when I made a spelling mistake, they used to tie me to a stake out in the playground for seventeen days per mistake, burn my clothes off, plant bamboo under my feet so it grew up through them, coat me in honey so the ants would eat all the flesh off my bones, set the dogs on me, put the sprinkler on so I was wet all the time, light a fire round me (as well as the sprinklers you fools), set the cadets up to use me as daily target practice with live ammo, make me drink all the chemical waste from the chem lab, starve me, make the sun shine 24/7 so I developed melanoma, make it snow permanently for the whole time so I froze and when that was over, hang me from the goal posts, cut out my guts and use it in the compost heap and get the horses to pull off my legs and arms. THEN they would growl me (the worst bit!) "You didn't do your homework did you!!!! BAD BOY!!".....and that was on their good days of course....

[martybabe]

I went to one of those. I was disappointed that I was just too late to use the inkwells - they had been made obsolete by the dawning of the fountain pen age.........I DID blink, didn't I.....

Ah yes the Fountain pen era, it was like the coming of the space age, a pen and an ink squirting weapon in one.

Start your homework with a leaky Fountain pen till it ran out, continue with a pencil till it broke and finish off with your sisters purple/pink felt tip and it still wasn't good enough for 'em. Fussy bleeding Teachers.

[doc]

Ah yes the Fountain pen era, it was like the coming of the space age, a pen and an ink squirting weapon in one.

Arrgh, yes I remember the male teachers with the dotted racing stripe down the back of their white shirts.

[martybabe]

Arrgh, yes I remember the male teachers with the dotted racing stripe down the back of their white shirts.

We may have been 12,000 miles apart in them days but boys will be boys everywhere it seems.

Anyway, it was perfectly justified in retribution for all the bloody chalk and blackboard erasers that bounced off my bloody head, man they were good shots.

[GIXser]

yeah man remember my little girl going to school for the first time last year.. wow you;ll see big changes in her the next six months , they seem to go from 5 to 15 in about six months .. all of a sudden they know everything.. its kinda cool, but youre right a chapter is gone and ya cant get it back.. its sad..