Big protest in accy centre? - Page 3

jaysay · 30-06-2010, 17:33

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Thank you. You have just confirmed what I said about these so-called exams. In my day we had real exams, 3 hours a time, twice a day, right up to the last few days of term. We went into the exam room with a pen, pencil, ruler, maybe a set of log tables and whatever was in your head. However hard you tried, the absolute maximum mark was 75%

Unlike the little brats of today, who will go into an exam room with laptop and mobile phone, and then having phoned a friend will proceed to put their name on the top of the paper in order to obtain 95% marks. They will then spend the rest of the exam session listening to whatever junk is on their i-pods. But even then, the nonsense does not finish there because the exam itself will count for only 10% of their overall mark because the rest is made up of 'continuous assessment'. The only continuous assessment in my day was a leather strap, applied liberally on failure to do your homework. This lot today do not know the meaning of that word. No wonder we have produced a generation of dumbed-down idle layabouts.

Well my other half invigilates at these exams in Wigan and she's been on duty for eight weeks, most days, finishing last Friday

cashman · 30-06-2010, 17:38

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Well my other half invigilates at these exams in Wigan and she's been on duty for eight weeks, most days, finishing last Friday

ya mean miss longhurst?

Tealeaf · 30-06-2010, 17:39

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Well my other half invigilates at these exams in Wigan and she's been on duty for eight weeks, most days, finishing last Friday

What is there to "invigilate" these days? The kids know the questions in advance, they take textbooks/laptops in to the room with them and then they write out their prepared answer. Still, I suppose someone has to keep them in order when they get bored after 10 minutes or so.

Eric · 30-06-2010, 19:04

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

There's nowt wrong with field trips...to museums, galleries, geographic features. The object there is to learn.Everything is wrong though with throwing open the school gates in order to let the little buggars run rampant through the town centre with the excuse that it is a recycling exercise. The teachers must be either lazy, bonkers - or more likely - both.

When I was writing my "O" Levels and my "A" Levels, I spent most of my free time in the boozer

... the only recycling I did was in the can.

I vaguely remember a geography field trip to Pembroke, where I was drunk most of the time

I did find that the beer in Wales is garbage. But it wasn't all about the beer. Spent a lot of time in the betting shop with Ray Barker ... that lad knew his horses

Usually made enough to buy more beer.

Wynonie Harris · 30-06-2010, 19:39

Now then, Eric, here's a memory tester for you...do you remember the AGS pupils' protest march to the town hall in '62?

Eric · 30-06-2010, 19:49

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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

Now then, Eric, here's a memory tester for you...do you remember the AGS pupils' protest march to the town hall in '62?

If that was the one during the Cuban Missile Crisis, I remember it. Was in 5 R, that year. In the classroom next to Ben's office. If you stuck your ear to the wall you could hear the thwack as some poor sod got six of the best.

Wynonie Harris · 30-06-2010, 19:57

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Originally Posted by Eric

If that was the one during the Cuban Missile Crisis, I remember it. Was in 5 R, that year. In the classroom next to Ben's office. If you stuck your ear to the wall you could hear the thwack as some poor sod got six of the best.

I was a young, naive first former, but I recall standing at the bottom of Willows Lane watching in amazement as "Gobbin" Owen, my maths teacher pleaded with a crowd of over-excited lads to turn back to school, before they swept past him on their way to the town hall. I reckon that's the point when the swinging sixties really started for me.

Tealeaf · 30-06-2010, 20:16

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Originally Posted by Eric

If that was the one during the Cuban Missile Crisis, I remember it. Was in 5 R, that year. In the classroom next to Ben's office. If you stuck your ear to the wall you could hear the thwack as some poor sod got six of the best.

Exactly, Eric...this is what proper teaching was all about..the three R's reinforced with leather and cane.

Anyway, what was everybody protesting about back in '62? For the Yanks to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the Russkies? For the Russkies to do the same on the Yanks? For the Brits to do 'em both?

By the way, I assume you saw that disgusting insult the Yankee navy made to your Queen earlier on...we should have sunk 'em on the spot.

flashy · 30-06-2010, 20:34

i was in Accy this morning and i heard the drawling noise coming from outside the town hall, i asked the shop keeper if they could close the doors because it was hurting my ears.....that kid really can't sing

Eric · 30-06-2010, 20:47

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Exactly, Eric...this is what proper teaching was all about..the three R's reinforced with leather and cane.

Anyway, what was everybody protesting about back in '62? For the Yanks to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the Russkies? For the Russkies to do the same on the Yanks? For the Brits to do 'em both?

By the way, I assume you saw that disgusting insult the Yankee navy made to your Queen earlier on...we should have sunk 'em on the spot.

We usually ignore our noisy, ignorant neighbours. And Her Majesty got a great welcome from Canadians. Tomorrow, she will be in Ottawa to help us celebrate our birthday

Back in '62, the Cold War was a stark reality. And everyone in Britain was aware of the four minute warning: this meant, that in the case of a nuclear attack, the warning sirens would go off just after the bombs landed. Those who didn't live through those days don't realize just how close we came to the "unthinkable". So, I guess we were protesting about being dragged to the edge of extinction ... and until the Russians backed down in the craziest game of chicken ever played, it was definitely touch and go.

Wynonie Harris · 30-06-2010, 21:04

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So, I guess we were protesting about being dragged to the edge of extinction ... and until the Russians backed down in the craziest game of chicken ever played, it was definitely touch and go.

Was a little bunch of CND/beatnik types in your year who organised it. The vast majority of youths who participated had very little idea of what it was all about...it was just a lark to them.

Tealeaf · 30-06-2010, 21:05

Yeah, I remember the headlines:

Accy Grammar School Protests:

Kennedy says: We will listen

Khrushchev replies: AGS speaks - we shall withdraw our Missiles

cashman · 30-06-2010, 21:18

Hey Tealeaf, knowing some of them little toe rags it probably was that that did the trick.

Wynonie Harris · 30-06-2010, 21:27

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Hey Tealeaf, knowing some of them little toe rags it probably was that that did the trick.

...and, of course, as you, me and Tealeaf know much worse things happened in 1962!

cashman · 30-06-2010, 21:51

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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

...and, of course, as you, me and Tealeaf know much worse things happened in 1962!

So ive been told.