Were You Popular At School?

[poodicat]

I moved around, due to my fathers postings,and got a bit of a hard time,so hardly had time to find out...

[benny3008]

no i was a goodytwoshoes! i only ever got one detention and i managed to wangle my way out of that one, it was for propping a fire exit open with a bottle lid, me and a group of mates would go to the same place every lunch and i consider myself to be the smartest out of all of us, i was the quiet one.

[milly143]

Nope and I'm still not now. Saying that, I was a prime target for bullies: red hair, chubby kid, had acne but I never got bullied. I just didn't get on with many people.

[karenmac60]

Nope, never was and still not now. Like Benny I was a goody 2 shoes - I got one punishment exercise the whole time I was at school and the teacher who gave me it is now my sister in law - she still hates me too :)

[B00]

No, not really.

I had a few close friends, but that was about it. I was a bit of a weirdo at school, I wore strange clothes (I loved charity shops) and i kept horses which didn't give me much time to do the out of school stuff with friends.

[ttfn]

Hi poodi - well at primary school I think we were all good mixers, cannot remember any child being left out. When I moved to the grammar school I applied myself to all subjects to a good level (yes, really) excellent at sports (yes, really) and quite sociable (yes, really)! Never made out-of-school friends with other pupils as I had a very close and busy family way of life which fulfilled my time away from the seat of learning. Unlike yourself I never moved between schools. However, I would not consider myself as being popular - in fact I would never have considered the question without your post :o)

[woofgang]

no idea if I was popular or not...I was a loner and didn't take much notice

[sg]

No,
I was shy and awkward which classically was perceived as antisocial, or just awkward.
I had a few close friends, but also moved about a bit so never felt like I belonged, wherever I was.
BOO I didn't know about you and horses.. (but then, why would I?).

[poodicat]

Well you are popular at least on herex

[poodicat]

Cant say i really liked school, no one inspired me...

[benny3008]

im glad i wasn't popular, the popular ones are always the ones that did fairly sh!t in exams etc... i have no sympathy when all they care about is looking good and cr@p like that, i like it the way it was for me, a few close friends to hang around with at breaks and lunch and have a laugh and then when it came to lessons etc... as much as i didn't want to be there, i still aimed to get GCSE's unlike some, who spent their whole school life gossiping etc. getting no GCSE's and then when leaving school, have no clue what to do!

[poodicat]

Used to hate head boy and girl,and the friggin prefects,badge of terror...

[B00]

lol yeah sg (hiya by the way), my mum kept horses, so i grew up with them uptil i was 18. Never been able to afford one since, but my dream is a plot of land, a stable and......

[askyourgran]

Sort of...... I was in the school netball team, I also did the high jump, hurdles and relay racing for my school on sports days, up to leaving school.

[Greedyfly]

We moved at least once a year and I never fit in. I never really had any friends because I found it really hard to fit in and we moved so often. I must admit as an adult I still have the same problem - minus the moving house all the time.

[ttfn]

I agree with you benny, and I have never seen a Head Boy or Girl that didn't have the most supercilious look on their face LOL.
That is a shame poodi - I always think children who have to move around and change schools are missing out quite a bit, especially on having any depth of friendship with school mates. I should imagine that is very important for single children. It is just well that education ends when it does and the real world allows us more choices of freedom and hopefully stability too

[benny3008]

Ha, i was a prefect although i never put the badge to use, i just liked to be higher up than all the chavs!

[benny3008]

Greedyfly, you fit in here, we're all your friends. :-)

[Greedyfly]

Thanks Benny. I fit in when I try I think. I'm just not very social!

[askyourgran]

I went to an all girls school so we didn't have Head Girl and Boy etc. I made it to milk monitor. lol

[poodicat]

Hi greedy i dont have that problem,i can interact quite well,but used to get the urge to move alot..