Transcript for: schools
Interviewee: Asghar Ali
Subject: Schools
Basically, I had a few friends there, and I went first of all to Spring Grove School. I think I spent two or three years there, and then I went to Rashcliff Junior School and then on to Mount Pleasant School and we had friends there. But, one thing I didn't like about growing up there was there used to be bullies, especially when we went to Moor End School, Mount Pleasant, sorry, it was Mount Pleasant and then we moved to Moor End. At Mount Pleasant there was quite a few bullies, they didn't used to pick on me, but they used to pick on my brother and I used to have to defend him. That was the only bad thing about school, but otherwise I enjoyed school. Even the teachers got quite fed up of it, one of our geography teachers would just come into class, and he'd just sit on the table and say that he'd not start teaching until everybody behaved themselves; and that encouraged them to be even more disruptive, because they didn't want the lessons to start, it didn't benefit anybody. If you were naughty the teacher could send you to the headmaster and the headmaster would take out his cane and he would ask you to put your hand out and he would hit you with the cane. I remember being punished myself once, because we went to the swimming pool, and it was a double decker bus, and the window was open and there was a branch sticking inside. I was about to push the branch out of the bus when the teacher came upstairs and saw me, and he thought I'd pulled the branch, and anyway he said, "Right, I'm going to send you to the headmaster." He sent me to the headmaster and the headmaster asked me what I'd done and I said, "Well, there was a branch, I was trying to push it out." and I don't think the headmaster believed me, he said, "Well, that can be dangerous, so I'm going to punish you for that." and he asked me to put my hand out and he slammed me with the came, and it was really painful. That was enough to put me off doing anything wrong.