(06-10-2025, 07:16 PM)andy06shake Wrote: Where i went to school in the 80s/90s it was either bully or get bullied.

The trick being not to repeatedly pick on someone weaker than yourself.

People that done so, became the next target, of the bigger boys a year up, and so on, and so forth. 

It was not right, and it was not correct, but simply the colour of the day in Glaswegian schools back then.

Some poor sods took all sorts of crap because they refused to stand up for themselfs.

Especially those who attended the place but did not stay in the area. 

And some of the teachers were even worse, with their borderline child abuse.

The place is knocked down now and all wee Barrett type houses, and the world spun, for the better or worse of the matter.

Most American schools have thier moments, you never know, no demographic can't catch it, it's really up to the teachers and administration, they have to nip it in the bud. 

but Ive always had the impression that the UK and Europe took school day stress to another level

(06-10-2025, 07:24 PM)putnam6 Wrote: but Ive always had the impression that the UK and Europe took school day stress to another level

I dont know about that.

Then again, i've not been there in that long a time, that even some of the bad memories i recall about the place, are all rather rosy coloured and innocent.  

The thing i remember about school is that i could not wait to leave at the time, and missed it when i came to the realisation i could never go back.

Probably the reason i did a half-decent Van Wilder impression and went to college/university for as long as they would have me. LoL 

I liked being a student, but life only goes in one direction, eh?

"c'est la vie"