Fiends Reunited?

Why do people do it -go back to their old school? Meeting people you knew 30 years ago when you were children has no appeal to me but then my school was a cross between Belsen and a lunatic asylum.Alright,I exaggerate -a tad.But it wasn't something I'd want to revisit I can tell you.And they charge you -£7 last count.Shouldn't they pay us in compensation?

The two chief things wrong with it were the children and the teachers.Both seemed in varying stages of dysfunctionality and used their environment to act out their infantile regressions -on me mostly.I learned the true meaning of ennui at school.It was a Catholic secondary and the fag end of the 60's/early 70's and everyone was into Slade and T.Rex.I of course was into the Beatles, forever out of step with the zeitegeist.Well they were part of the backdrop of my childhood so I was just catching up.

Barely a week went by without blood on the playground.Strange hostile environ in which to place a child one would have thought.So all this 'lets trip down memory lane' is kind of sick to me.What do we have in common- morons with whom one was forced to socialise?The only explanation I can offer for Friends Reunited is this: we are talking Stockholm Syndrome here.Captives form strange bonds.You have no choice.

Not one of my former er, inmates has made good.I am the only one destined for fame and fortune and even I am leaving it a bit late.Others haved died in strange circumstances,committed suicide, succumbed to alcoholism,sexual deviancy,and well earned anonymity. And that is just the teachers..

Of course I use the word teachers advisedly.Had someone gone out in the street and picked people at random saying 'you are now a teacher at St#######' they could not have arrived at such a motley bunch of social misfits,failures and pedagogically challenged individuals.

Of course everything is distorted when you are 13,14.Midgets seem like monsters.The small looms large,the petty collosal,the minor,major.

Instead of Meritocracy mediocracy reigned at the old school.The lowest common denominator ruled and don't tell me it is any different now.My nose is to the ground.A freind's child goes there and reports back connote it is more of the same.Bullies hold a sway of terror and get preferential treatment over their victims.Short of murder you cannot get expelled.

You can roll that out across the country.Like a Gulag Archipellago the State Schools hold millions hostage to a clapped out, morally and spiritually bankrupt system that fails and continues to fail countless generations,to blight lives,to stunt growth,to stifle aspiration,to crush the spirit,to destroy hope,in the name of a evil ideology of Socilaism,the systematic dumbing down of minds,the negation of life,and the enemy of promise.