Ncc Policy On School Transport.....

[Malcolm Robinson]

What can anyone say...............

[Adam Hogg]

They need St Benet 's uniforms on for a start Malcolm.

[Keith Scantlebury]

School Transport ? Whats that ? I would have to walk 6 miles to school with holes in my wellies, wearing no socks. I would be wearing a sleeveless jumper (and I mean sleeveless, a jumper with the sleeves taken off, not a tank top). I had no coat on ( didn't have one) , only wearing school shorts. I would be walking over ploughed fields most of the way , head down pushing my way into the wind , rain and snow. ( it was only good weather at weekends in those days). My lunch box, containing a stale jam sandwich, was one that I found in the pit yard. I wasn't allowed to eat with the other kids 'cos I was infested with head lice.

The journey back was often worse because I would have to carry one of the younger kids back home, the long days at school would have worn him out. This was the summer time, Winter was another matter, dark mornings and afternoons meant it all took a bit longer.

But, when I got home, there was real bread, with rrrrrrreal butter, ( for everyone else,never me )

[Malcolm Robinson]

That's what you get for being a teacher keith!!!!!!!

[Malcolm Robinson]

Adam,

Google Rosa Parks.......

[Keith Scantlebury]

That's what you get for being a teacher keith!!!!!!!

YEP !! A proper martyr I was

[John Fox (foxy)]

Keith,

If your jumper was sleeveless then what did you use to wipe your nose?

[Malcolm Robinson]

School Transport ? Whats that ? I would have to walk 6 miles to school with holes in my wellies, wearing no socks. I would be wearing a sleeveless jumper (and I mean sleeveless, a jumper with the sleeves taken off, not a tank top). I had no coat on ( didn't have one) , only wearing school shorts. I would be walking over ploughed fields most of the way , head down pushing my way into the wind , rain and snow. ( it was only good weather at weekends in those days). My lunch box, containing a stale jam sandwich, was one that I found in the pit yard. I wasn't allowed to eat with the other kids 'cos I was infested with head lice.

The journey back was often worse because I would have to carry one of the younger kids back home, the long days at school would have worn him out. This was the summer time, Winter was another matter, dark mornings and afternoons meant it all took a bit longer.

But, when I got home, there was real bread, with rrrrrrreal butter, ( for everyone else,never me )

You try telling the young people of today that..................

[Keith Scantlebury]

Keith,

If your jumper was sleeveless then what did you use to wipe your nose?

somebody elses

[John Fox (foxy)]

somebody elses

Guddin!!!! :rolleyes:

[Adam Hogg]

Adam,

Google Rosa Parks.......

I know who rosa parks was, an african american woman who would not let a white man have her seat so she was arrested, but i stand by want i said they need to be in st benet jumpers.

[Symptoms]

Those of us of a certain age will remember some of the momentous American civil rights stories as they happened. Although I was too young to be aware of the Rosa Young story at the time, the stuff happening in the 60s was certainly reported on the BBC telly news every night. I do clearly remember the film of James Meredith being escorted by US Marshals into the segregated University of Mississippi (50 years anniversary only a couple of days ago), the freedom marches, Martin Luther King, Ali, and all the rest. Those of us with any sense of decency, even young teenagers like me, hoped they would succeed in their struggle.