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Reading about this news article reminded me about my own adventure when I was around that age: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-42057195
I don't necessarily mean play truant, but I mean literally walk out of school simply because the door and the gate was ajar and one decided to take advantage of this unofficial freedom. Almost a la Suzanne Ross in series 7 of Grange Hill, but a lot younger. I suppose it's only seen as truancy if one is a lot older and have most of one's faculties intact.
I was never one of those in Year 10 who used to skive off to the newsagents at break time because Mars Bars were 5p cheaper across the road than the Tuck Shop or the vending machine, but when I was younger, things were a bit different...
I remember that it was close to home time. I was in the Infants, so I was no more than five or six at the time. The school door was ajar... I think that even back then I thought of Infant School was some sort of Fort Knox where the teachers were there in lieu of security guards, and if they tried to put barbed wire over the fences, I would understand why.
I went through the unlocked door, across the playground and through a gate that was open enough for me to get through. The school was just around the corner from the main road, and I think that my main reason for doing this was to look for the lollipop lady who would be going on duty, serving that main road. I remember playing chicken with the cars, and I remember a passer by saying "shouldn't you be in school?" or something... I knew at my young age, there was nowhere else for me to go, and I realised that I would give myself up - just as well a member of staff had ran after me and brought me back again, otherwise things would have probably been a lot different in the long run. I remember the lollipop lady making some comment like "nine lives" or something. Nevertheless, this incident had allowed the school to review its security arrangements. Indeed, perhaps G4S rather than the NASUWT should have supplied the teaching staff?
I never did anything like that when I was older, although due to the compatibility of my peer group, I was always tempted to leave and never come back.. In a nutshell, I hated school, but even more so when I got older into Year 7 territory and beyond.
When I attended a reunion at the same school a few years ago, I spend a weekend wracking my brain thinking of all the memories, good and bad that I remember at my Infant School, and so I wrote them down, including that one. I retold this story at the reunion as I thought that it would be interesting in hindsight, and they did find it interesting. Time is a great healer as they say...
Has anyone unofficially walked out of school, and had a "brief adventure", especially at such a young age? I doubt that anyone would have even thought of taking advantage of such a thing at such a young age...
I don't necessarily mean play truant, but I mean literally walk out of school simply because the door and the gate was ajar and one decided to take advantage of this unofficial freedom. Almost a la Suzanne Ross in series 7 of Grange Hill, but a lot younger. I suppose it's only seen as truancy if one is a lot older and have most of one's faculties intact.
I was never one of those in Year 10 who used to skive off to the newsagents at break time because Mars Bars were 5p cheaper across the road than the Tuck Shop or the vending machine, but when I was younger, things were a bit different...
I remember that it was close to home time. I was in the Infants, so I was no more than five or six at the time. The school door was ajar... I think that even back then I thought of Infant School was some sort of Fort Knox where the teachers were there in lieu of security guards, and if they tried to put barbed wire over the fences, I would understand why.
I went through the unlocked door, across the playground and through a gate that was open enough for me to get through. The school was just around the corner from the main road, and I think that my main reason for doing this was to look for the lollipop lady who would be going on duty, serving that main road. I remember playing chicken with the cars, and I remember a passer by saying "shouldn't you be in school?" or something... I knew at my young age, there was nowhere else for me to go, and I realised that I would give myself up - just as well a member of staff had ran after me and brought me back again, otherwise things would have probably been a lot different in the long run. I remember the lollipop lady making some comment like "nine lives" or something. Nevertheless, this incident had allowed the school to review its security arrangements. Indeed, perhaps G4S rather than the NASUWT should have supplied the teaching staff?
I never did anything like that when I was older, although due to the compatibility of my peer group, I was always tempted to leave and never come back.. In a nutshell, I hated school, but even more so when I got older into Year 7 territory and beyond.
When I attended a reunion at the same school a few years ago, I spend a weekend wracking my brain thinking of all the memories, good and bad that I remember at my Infant School, and so I wrote them down, including that one. I retold this story at the reunion as I thought that it would be interesting in hindsight, and they did find it interesting. Time is a great healer as they say...
Has anyone unofficially walked out of school, and had a "brief adventure", especially at such a young age? I doubt that anyone would have even thought of taking advantage of such a thing at such a young age...
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