Comments on: Why You Should Keep Your Really Old Schoolwork

By: Ali Burrell

Ali Burrell — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:57:14 +0000

I NEEDED to tell you that I was in stitches laughing about this…particularly the one where the teacher cut you off in the middle of your joke and even spaced out the working for me to read it ‘just-so’
“Is this a Joke
David”

I DO have some of my old school work and I totally laugh at it when I come across it…my sister has NONE of hers…but I do. And, all she ever wrote about in her school work was food…in her childhood journal… food! I guess you know what was on her mind!
Anyway…I totally relate to this post and thoroughly enjoyed it!

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Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:42:32 +0000

[...] year we had to write short stories in grade school. It was one of the few parts of school I loved. Tree and ocean at [...]

By: Ramona

Ramona — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:23:43 +0000

One of the best drawings I’ve ever found of my own was a girl standing next to a giant soda can, which had been knocked over. She looked very alarmed and the can, which was bigger than she was, was spilling everywhere. Scrawled under the image was the title, “JAPAN”.

I can only imagine what impressions I had about Japan when I was six years old.

By: Andy Parsons

Andy Parsons — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:29:31 +0000

A couple of months ago I met someone who had been in my class at primary school in England (I now live in Australia and this was on my most recent visit to the UK).

I had not seen him or had any contact with him besides a couple of brief messages on facebook since we were in primary school together, which was 1985 (so nearly a quarter of a century ago!) and yet as soon as we started to share our memories of primary school, it was as if all those years and all the good and bad things they had brought had never even happened!

Immediately it was like we’d been in contact all that time, and I felt like I was 10 years old again and I think he did too.

For a couple of hours that day, all of that childhood honesty, spontaneity and simplicity came back to us. I intend to repeat the experience on my next visit this May and perhaps also meet a couple more school friends.

It seems to me that I’ve never had such close friends since primary school. Somehow (perhaps because they’re often the first real friends we make) those are a particularly special type of friendship.

By: David

David — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:10:56 +0000

Thanks Andy.

I don’t think I have changed much because a lot of the comments my teachers made still apply to me now, if I’m totally honest with myself!

Haha me too. I still draw in the margins, on the rare occasion I write on paper.

By: David

David — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:06:20 +0000

Wow I missed your comment somehow too. For three months!

You are very nice.

By: Andy Parsons

Andy Parsons — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:53:02 +0000

Wonderful stuff. I do have a few things from my school years including some artworks and artifacts I made, and some exercise books, but they’re all from hgih school. I wish I had some from primary school too.

I will ask my mum next time I see her if she does have anything from primary school. The only thing she has given me is my school reports, and I must admit I occasionally read those to be informed, in very concise terms, of who I really am.

I don’t think Ihave changed much because a lot of the comments my teachers made still apply to me now, if I’m totally honest with myself!

By: Lisis

Lisis — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:03:22 +0000

Hey, D!

I guess I missed this post while I was out on my August road trip! I love it!!! This is the cutest thing ever. Oh, I was so mad at your teacher for stopping you right in the middle of your story (the one that may or may not have been a joke)! Time to move on, huh? When will adults learn to just let kids be?

This post makes you WAY better than my “foreth” favorite blogger. ;)
.-= Lisis´s last blog ..Inspiration from Pema Chodron: Everyone and Everything =-.

By: William

William — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:23:27 +0000

Reminds me of the scene in the movie “Uncle Buck” where Uncle Buck (played by John Candy) sees the principal of the school where his 6-year-old niece goes to school. The principal warns Buck that the niece is not serious about her career and future and is a dilly-dallyer and dreamer. Buck responds in kind by severely scolding the principal that she had better not even look at his niece in a bad way and that he wouldn’t want to know a 6-year-old kid who WAS serious about their career and who WASN’T a dilly-dallyer and dreamer.

By: David

David — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:29:27 +0000

I used to love to write stories. As I got older I tried writing bigger and bigger stories, and finished them less and less often. Eventually I stopped altogether. Nonfiction has proved to be easier for me too, mainly because of the length, but I’m sure I’ll try fiction again one day.