Well, don’t leave us hanging?!
I honestly can't remember now where they were going with this. It was presented as some sort of thought experiment but it made little sense to us at the time. I think it may have been something to do with softening us up for the concept of reproduction.
I always wondered what people were actually studying in General Studies. I did five A levels so never had the option of GS, since my timetable was completely full. Was it a bit like Fight Club? You don't talk about GS?
One thing I do remember from my general studies lessons was that one of the official languages of Switzerland is Romansh despite hardly anyone speaking it.
In the a level I wrote an essay about how medicine had replaced the role of the church in UK society.
We used to get a subject one period a week on sex education, it was a waste of time and the teacher chucked a book at you with a young smiling couple pushing a pram on the outside cover
I think we did rather well, all things told, we got a freshly qualified female science teacher, about 22/23, 5 foot 1 at most, petite, very little classroom control (she was usually our chemistry teacher), pink hair, pierced nose, visible tattoos, we thought we'd wind her up for the entire course (one lesson a week for the whole term, 40 plus, 14 year boys in one room, all the girls in another).
First lesson in she gets this big Gladstone bag out and then flips a massive purple rubber appendage with a sucker on the bottom and sticks it to the desk at the front and then starts talking.
Spent the next 10 weeks actually being educated.
And i'll be honest, i was fairly naïve at that age, but some of my contemporaries, Jesus wept, i'm not surprised we had a massive run on teenage pregnancies at the school.
I always wondered what people were actually studying in General Studies.
We didn't study anything, it was a test of what you knew anyway or could work out for yourself, not what you'd been taught.
I have an A level in General Studies (grade B). I remember absolutely nothing about it, so it can't have been that useful.
I was in secondary school from 2002-2007 and have never heard of General Studies
I was in secondary 1985-1992, My General Studies exam pass was 1992....
A question - could General Studies be the reason for so many 'experts'...?
I was in secondary 1985-1992, My General Studies exam pass was 1992…
Hang on, are you me?
It would appear that the modern equivalent may be “PSHE.”
"Pish" wasn't a priority at my school. I think I bunked off a lot. in retrospect, i would probably have been much better in life if I had shown up...
Hang on, are you me?
Only if one of your few regrets is not getting it on with Rose in 6th form and doing more sailing that studying....?
