Brays Grove Comprehensive

This is a picture showing the entrance to my secondary school. When I first attended the school the building on the left wasn't there. It was later built as the sixth form block. All of it now has been bull-dozed. A sixties folly! I used to cycle into this gate every morning. The cycle sheds were inside the gate on the right hand side. I've recently been contacted by some old pupils wanting to have a re-union.
I'm sorry but I am not enthusiastic to revisit any of this old landscape. It was a big school and ran an old system of prefects. Because I was such a goodie-goodie and always did as I was told I eventually became a prefect. Then later when elections were held for Head Boy and Deputy Head Boy I lost out to Martin Scott. We were both asked to make a speach at some 6th Form away-day and I declined. Little knowing that that was to be the acid test. So Martin became Head Boy and me his deputy. I have just received an invitation from Martin to attend a re-union next year. In his email he says what a wonderful education we all got from Brays Grove. Most old chums did very well for themselves.
Well sorry Buddy. I beg to differ. Having a B.Ed Honours Degree I'd like to contest that. The Maths teaching was total shit!!! We had a history teacher in years two and three who just wrote history on the black-board which we copied into our exercise books. We had RE lessons where the silly idiot was more obsessed about whether we should use the top line in our rough books and German lessons were just so oblique and unfathomable!! If something has more than 2 syllables the resulting verb will end in d!! I'm prepared to accept that it's my inadequacy here. But I think Brays Grove could have offered me a whole lot more.