The Official Nonsense Thread

[Minty]

Yeah Caspin we had that as well, you could do History or Geography but not both. They tried to push the "brainy" ones into doing geography because it was deemed a "science school" (which meant the board of studies all had science qualifications & therefore everyone else should get them). The subversives took Modern Studies, which was removed as a subject for learning unless you took it in 3rd year, therefore few took it because they'd no idea what it would be like. It had been a compulsory class in 1st & 2nd, until the local Labour run council (the old Strathclyde Region) worried it was turning too many kids into Scottish nationalists.

Most of the neds chose history because the classrooms were warmer - the geography department being twinned with the arctic despite being in the middle of the school & so ought to have been the warmest while the history department was at the end & ought to have been the coldest.

Luckily three of the toughest teachers were in that department or it would have been chaos (there was also a young woman teacher the neds all thought sexy, another reason probably they chose history!). That said, they were also good in getting the neds to care about that one subject, making them think & teaching them how to think properly. It was weird, the one subject in the whole school where the no-hopes were scoring high & no one thought about trying to look into where they were going right.

It's always a good idea making course friends at uni StJimmy797, the courser the better!