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I have always heard 'second year being' used in relation to primary school, i.e, year 2.

No these are big kids
It's a grammar school so I'm wondering if that makes a difference

When I was at secondary school it was 1st year 2nd year etc etc

I don't know the knew system
It seems to go on forever these days in the advent of having to stay in education until you draw your pension

Second year is year 8.

Thank you

I see kids wearing school uniforms driving into that school on some mornings

That's not normal in this country is it

When I was in high school, everyone called each year by the number, i.e, 'year 7' or 'year 8' or 'year 9', I never heard anyone refer to 1st year or 2nd year etc.

I guess that each high school must be different?

No, unless they're in sixth form and have to still wear the uniform.

I remember when I was in sixth form this show-off type boy was zooming around in a car by October. His 17th birthday was September so I don't know how he managed to learn and pass so quick AND receive his licence within 2-3 weeks. It took me 3 years worth of driving lessons before I passed my driving test, and my license took about 6 weeks to come through in the post. It doesn't all just happen in a couple of weeks.

Yes, I do have a license but I've never owned a car.

Before around 1990 secondary schools used the first year, second year, etc, system.

I never got a driving license
It never really appealed to me

I know how to drive though

Oh yeah they wear a uniform hear until they're 18 and leave

I think you can learn to drive as a young person as long as it's on private land so he could have had experience as a child

They used to do driving lessons near me from age 13 but it was like in a simulator thing

Maybe, as he was very confident about driving, the sort of "I must drive, it's really really great!" attitude. I wasn't too bothered about driving and I really don't see what the fuss is about, but I still took driving lessons when I was 17 due to encouragement from my parents and having a lot of free time and EMA money saved up. But due to my poor attention span, lack of confidence, and difficulty learning new things, it took me 3 years of driving lessons to finally get a licence.

You did it though and that's more than some people
You should be proud of yourself

I've known a few people who get their licence and then they never drive again

I went to a grammar school but the Labour government made them all go comprehensive so they changed their name to leave out the word grammar. They were supposed to call it a comprehensive school instead but they decided to compromise and just call it a school to avoid offending either side.

I was annoyed because I'd done all that work to get there and then it became just a school so I couldn't brag about it any more. Of course nowadays thanks to the right wing backlash they're doing grammar schools again. I think they only banned them to spite me.

I made sure my emergency alerts on my phone are definitely switched off because I heard the government are going to do another test thing and I know it wouldn't do my anxiety any good as the alert noise would just stick in my head and give me nightmares about WW3.

^
Apparently you can use flight mode as well.

"The alerts will not work if phones are switched off or in flight mode, or if people opt out of the scheme, and it is estimated that they will reach about 90 per cent of mobile phones in a given area, via 4G and 5G phone networks."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 78114.html

I hope and pray our glorious leaders will at least tell us when it's going to happen. I had no idea they were planning to do this.

It's a funny world innit

I kind of like it when I'm fully functioning

It's like a mad painting that keeps changing before my eyes

It's funny how a glass of milk and a jigsaw puzzle would have been enough to satisfy a teenager, yesteryear

Our school was like some kind of post ww2 prefabricated, flat pack thing that they just dumped in the middle of a potato field

I say potato field because that's what everyone used to say and I don't know any better

But all I know is it sank into said field

It's gone now anyway
Not buried BTW just dismantled and recycled maybe