'Black' Schooling, and Truancy Incorporated

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On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 13:24 +0000, charlottehoneychurch wrote:

> 'I was like I might get a scholarship and she

> felt that was ridiculous b/c I would clearly be abandoning her. I

> settled

> on a state school I didn't even want to go to- I got into the better

> school,

> but couldn't go b/c it would be rude to my whole family to show off

> and go

> to the better school.'

>

OMG if that's white then I am black.

My Yeti had a very fractured schooling. Her father was an incredible

bank manager. He became the bank's " Mr Fixit " , and was sent to various

branches, usually in country towns, to sort out messes. And Yeti was

dragged from school to school. She couldn't board, because that would be

abandoning *her* mother. (So she says, only have her word for that).

So when it came to sending us to school we Went To All The Best Schools.

Secondary school was a Private school, of course. Why ask the people who

are going to have to go there, if they want to go there?

I didn't. I hated that school from the first day. I used to cry myself

to sleep (couldn't tell Yeti I hated it could I?) and then Yeti would

ask the next day if I was happy at school. " You weren't happy at that

[awful public] Primary school were you. Are you happier at this one? " .

Yes Yeti I am ever so happy, I just cry myself to sleep because I can't

possibly contain all this blissful happiness. I actually liked Primary

school, it was where I fled to get away from her. But the unwritten law

[which is etched in stone in BP families, oddly enough] is: You cannot

disagree.

I started going truant. I would go there in the morning to get signed

onto the roll, and then go straight home to have a drink. Ended up I

wasn't there more often than I was there. I still officially hold the

record for truancy at that school, and they only knew about maybe 10% of

it. There were 15 'escape routes' and I knew exactly which class was

where, and which ones I could use, at any particular time. At least I

was a professional truant.

About this time psychologists started suggesting I be removed from Yeti.

HINT TO SCHOOL: there's a problem here.

When they found out I was truant, they rang Yeti. She frankly didn't

care but put on a good performance.

HINT TO MUM: There's a problem at school.

My eldest brother was the one who got into the school on a full

scholarship. When he matriculated he *topped the state*. People used to

say I was more intelligent than he was, but that stopped when I became

CEO of the Truancy Inc..

I started dabbling in substances at 13. Shooting up at 14. Mum actually

saw some of the puncture marks but nothing entered her pretty little

head. BPs are outstanding at denial. So I started shooting up my feet so

she wouldn't see anything.

Craig (white brother) also topped his B.Science year about this time and

was off on his 'Thesis Years'.

Craig Could Do No Wrong, whereas if I did she didn't care and it was my

fault anyway. It was " my way of manipulating her " <exact Yetiquote>. She

was paying MORE money to send me to the school I hated, and just look

how thankful I was. Yeah.....

God. Can't win, cant lose either. Guess who's mum was a BP???????

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, my nada also paid " dearly " for my brother's education. She

split him black and while she threatened not to pay for my

college--and didn't, she and my dad spent their retirement on my

brother's. And, of course, he was totally ungrateful--but who would

be grateful for the way they treated him?

Trish

> > 'I was like I might get a scholarship and she

> > felt that was ridiculous b/c I would clearly be abandoning her. I

> > settled

> > on a state school I didn't even want to go to- I got into the better

> > school,

> > but couldn't go b/c it would be rude to my whole family to show off

> > and go

> > to the better school.'

> >

>

> OMG if that's white then I am black.

>

> My Yeti had a very fractured schooling. Her father was an incredible

> bank manager. He became the bank's " Mr Fixit " , and was sent to various

> branches, usually in country towns, to sort out messes. And Yeti was

> dragged from school to school. She couldn't board, because that would be

> abandoning *her* mother. (So she says, only have her word for that).

> So when it came to sending us to school we Went To All The Best Schools.

> Secondary school was a Private school, of course. Why ask the people who

> are going to have to go there, if they want to go there?

> I didn't. I hated that school from the first day. I used to cry myself

> to sleep (couldn't tell Yeti I hated it could I?) and then Yeti would

> ask the next day if I was happy at school. " You weren't happy at that

> [awful public] Primary school were you. Are you happier at this one? " .

> Yes Yeti I am ever so happy, I just cry myself to sleep because I can't

> possibly contain all this blissful happiness. I actually liked Primary

> school, it was where I fled to get away from her. But the unwritten law

> [which is etched in stone in BP families, oddly enough] is: You cannot

> disagree.

> I started going truant. I would go there in the morning to get signed

> onto the roll, and then go straight home to have a drink. Ended up I

> wasn't there more often than I was there. I still officially hold the

> record for truancy at that school, and they only knew about maybe 10% of

> it. There were 15 'escape routes' and I knew exactly which class was

> where, and which ones I could use, at any particular time. At least I

> was a professional truant.

> About this time psychologists started suggesting I be removed from Yeti.

> HINT TO SCHOOL: there's a problem here.

> When they found out I was truant, they rang Yeti. She frankly didn't

> care but put on a good performance.

> HINT TO MUM: There's a problem at school.

> My eldest brother was the one who got into the school on a full

> scholarship. When he matriculated he *topped the state*. People used to

> say I was more intelligent than he was, but that stopped when I became

> CEO of the Truancy Inc..

> I started dabbling in substances at 13. Shooting up at 14. Mum actually

> saw some of the puncture marks but nothing entered her pretty little

> head. BPs are outstanding at denial. So I started shooting up my feet so

> she wouldn't see anything.

> Craig (white brother) also topped his B.Science year about this time and

> was off on his 'Thesis Years'.

> Craig Could Do No Wrong, whereas if I did she didn't care and it was my

> fault anyway. It was " my way of manipulating her " <exact Yetiquote>. She

> was paying MORE money to send me to the school I hated, and just look

> how thankful I was. Yeah.....

> God. Can't win, cant lose either. Guess who's mum was a BP???????

>

>

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