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Originally Posted by chezlaw
Ma school was an almost indescribable mix of degenerate chaos.
No anarchist element? Bright kids being lured by punk/hippy/anarchy/Rock/etc is simply correct. Only the most conservative could possible disagree. What next? You going to suggest drugs sex and rock n roll was a bad thing?
I claim a friend who had a part on Grange Hill.
Very strong anarchist and Rock Against Racism element (including me). Close friends worked in one of the first t-shirt printing shops in North London that had close links with a number of bands at the time (Weller was a notoriously horrible **nt).
All of those were great things. What wasn't great was a bunch of hippy teachers abdicating any form of responsibility for discipline. My very first day there as a 13 year old featured a classmate having a row with the teacher, who came over to his desk, picked up my friend's bag and smashed it down on the floor, breaking some of its contents. Uh, ok.
Later that same week a whole class was given a detention for being unruly. I, as a somewhat naive newcomer, was walking along to it only to be told by another classmate that "Nah, no one's going to that". So i went home.
Interesting times.