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Things you’ll remember if you went to a Scottish primary school

Had to wear gymshoes indoors, always lost mine. – Baito Plush the first for Scotland Segregated (boy/ girl) playgrounds and classrooms. Belt for the boys and lines for the girls. – Hectorman I go back much further: learning to write beautifully on slates; bringing gas masks to school, Blakey tacks in boots making the playground surface lethal for PE, the Bargery family English text books, rote learning of tables. – Andrew Macaulay Bullying, persecution, racism, religious intolerance, paedophilia, and teachers who should never have been allowed within a hundred miles of young, impressionable children. – Sir Fred We got a real education – now it is about which parent can build the best castle out of old cardboard. Sturgeon has failed a generation. – Steve White Covering your new schoolbooks with wallpaper... scary wallpaper from the 1970s. –Edlass