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[miles]

although the new headmaster is slowly destroying it

Headmaster. Did you go to school in Manchester?

The idea of nostalgia for elementary school or high school is fascinating to me.

I can't blot out most of those memories fast enough.

Most of the people I care to know of from then, I'm still in touch with.

There is just so little nostalgia.

I'm with you. I'm kind of over this now, but I use to fantasize about becoming rich, but not so I could live the Good Life or become a philanthropist or anything like that, but so I could buy the properties that caused me misery when I thought of them. And then I'd bulldoze the fuck*ng buildings and like develop peaceful parks with creeks and walkways and shit like that. So, that would include my Jr. High School, one of the places I worked at in college and an apartment complex I lived at when I was also still in college. Somewhere along the way I got some therapy and grew up, so I'm good now.

[pmcd9]

The idea of nostalgia for elementary school or high school is fascinating to me.

I have this great memory of listening to Seasons in the Sun on the radio while sitting in the car outside the school waiting for my brother to come out.

[Doc]

As a total nerd I don't get the high school hang ups that a lot of people have. Even people I went to school with have some vendetta against the place that I half remember as being quite pleasant and have half totally forgotten. I liked the place but I think it failed to make a big impact on my one way or t'other.

On the other hand I went past the other day and discovered that they'd sold the playing fields to the hospital next door so they could make a multistory car park, which kind of bugged me. But apparently they're going to put a new field on top of the car park (this is less insane than it sounds because the school was on a cliff and the fields were many stairs lower than the school buildings) which I admire for being weird but am still kind of put out because the the loss of continuity. I like old crumbly buildings better than shiny new ones is what I'm saying.

[theinevitable]

I went to school in the US, but it was a rich-kid private school.

I felt nostalgia for high school until this one day where I went back, and spent 20 minutes walking around looking for people I knew, and then I thought "wait, this is what high school was, wandering the halls looking for the few people I liked. High school sucked."

[pmcd9]

I checked google earth to see that my elementary school is still there.  It appears they've built a much larger school on the same property, probably a middle school.  I also noticed that the school grounds didn't have a fence around it which is pretty uncommon these days.  I also also noticed that the building is sorta wing shaped which is cool.  I always thought it was just straight.

Reminds me of Charlie Brown for some strange odd reason.

[herofix]

I recently returned to the US after a long absence and I found the sight of all the schools with heavy fencing around it quite chilling.  I suppose you can get used to anything, but during my time there I couldn't help looking at that and thinking, 'how does nobody see this as an indicator of a massive problem?'.  I used to frequently leave high school at around lunch time if I was getting fed up or wanted to go smoke Marlboros in peace - I guess the kids these days are locked in?

My old high school was also fenced-up, which was a bit redundant really since it is already mostly surrounded by a moat.

[jaydub]

Was there a drawbridge to cross the moat?  I've always wanted a house with turrets.

[Choop]

i think it's just as much to keep the pedophiles out

[greenkoolayd]

i went to the elementary school with all the white trash/ghetto kids.  the original building had burned down in the 60s and was rebuilt smaller, and as a daily activity center for senior citizens.  they rebuilt the school about half a mile up the street soon after, so i went to the new one(it was new in 1969, but by the late 80s, it was not so new, yet not so old).

really, the biggest impact i can remember making in those days was that i was known as "the kid who will cry if you pick on him long enough".

[Arachno-capitalist]

I used to frequently leave high school at around lunch time if I was getting fed up or wanted to go smoke Marlboros in peace - I guess the kids these days are locked in?

There was a graveyard on my high school campus for the dead Brothers. That's where people smoked Marlboros, in the graveyard for dead monks.

[wombat]

The school building I was talking about that got torn down was actually an office building in midtown Manhattan. For most of the time that I went to my school, from 7th grade to maybe 10th, we did not have a building, and the school was on two floors of an office building. We had no gym and what I most fondly remember is taking the subway to a creepy bowling alley on 14th street, which counted as gym class. We played a half-assed game as fast as we could and then spent the rest of the period going shopping before we had to get back to school. Those were the joys of a decrepit New York City in the 1970s.

[theinevitable]

oh man, the best era of NYC. Decrepit.

I keep being told that the NYC I see now is disneyland, and damn, it is still pretty cool seeming to me... I get to go there for radio station stuff in 2 weeks, which is exciting as hell.

my roommate grew up in brooklyn and went to school in manhattan, and because of years of subway rides to school he can fall asleep in any position, and set mental alarms for himself to wake up at a certain time.

It is funny that he grew up in NYC and can find his way around there, but gets confused about which direction from our house downtown St Louis is.

update: my roommate went to your high-school, wombat.

[wombat]

update: my roommate went to your high-school, wombat.

Now how did that come up? Do they all know the nostalgic stories of the days before they were born when we could go bowling for gym class?

[theinevitable]

1. yes, I told him and he was like "oh man, I've heard about that, when it was in an office building"
2. I suddenly just KNEW that you guys went to the same school, and checked your facebook.

[R2DTrousers]

School is great, but I think the sudden demise of assetbar is more interesting. Say what you will about it being a morass of gibbering, but I quite liked the clusterfuckyness of it. Other achewood discussion forums can sometimes be a bit like a private chatroom for old regulars, some of whom are maybe a bit too into themselves.

Isn't it deeply weird that the plug appears to have been pulled with absolutely no acknowledgement from the Stadmeister? I feel like I'm at a dinner party and there's muffled screaming coming from the next room that noone is acknowledging.