1974 and school leavers
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https://youtu.be/5pFFPsZLdto
A Thames TV 5 min interview with school leavers in 1974 and their reaction to raising the school leaving age to 16.
I saw this on my YouTube feed this morning. These kids would now be about 64. I wonder how their lives turned out and what their reaction would be to see this again. I’ve no point to make with this post but I thought it may generate some interesting replies from young and old alike on here.
I didn’t know raising the school leaving age to 16 came as late as this. I’m 53 for context and this seems like a bit before my time, but only just.
A Thames TV 5 min interview with school leavers in 1974 and their reaction to raising the school leaving age to 16.
I saw this on my YouTube feed this morning. These kids would now be about 64. I wonder how their lives turned out and what their reaction would be to see this again. I’ve no point to make with this post but I thought it may generate some interesting replies from young and old alike on here.
I didn’t know raising the school leaving age to 16 came as late as this. I’m 53 for context and this seems like a bit before my time, but only just.
geeman237 said:
https://youtu.be/5pFFPsZLdto
A Thames TV 5 min interview with school leavers in 1974 and their reaction to raising the school leaving age to 16.
I saw this on my YouTube feed this morning. These kids would now be about 64. I wonder how their lives turned out and what their reaction would be to see this again. I’ve no point to make with this post but I thought it may generate some interesting replies from young and old alike on here.
I didn’t know raising the school leaving age to 16 came as late as this. I’m 53 for context and this seems like a bit before my time, but only just.
I didn't know it was that late either. I would have been 8 in 1974.A Thames TV 5 min interview with school leavers in 1974 and their reaction to raising the school leaving age to 16.
I saw this on my YouTube feed this morning. These kids would now be about 64. I wonder how their lives turned out and what their reaction would be to see this again. I’ve no point to make with this post but I thought it may generate some interesting replies from young and old alike on here.
I didn’t know raising the school leaving age to 16 came as late as this. I’m 53 for context and this seems like a bit before my time, but only just.
I came back to the UK from Australia just after my 15th birthday in 1983, I was the youngest in my class over there but could have legally left school, many of my mates had done so, however back in the UK I then still had to do another year, no way was I mature enough to handle adult life at the time.
Would have been a bit weird to have left, had a job for 6 months over there, then came back to the UK and had to return to school!
I actually stayed on until I was 18 in the end.
Would have been a bit weird to have left, had a job for 6 months over there, then came back to the UK and had to return to school!
I actually stayed on until I was 18 in the end.
It changed on 1 Sept 1972 according to Wiki - I'm 64 so I guess could have left in July 72 after my birthday - I did O levels in 73.
AFAIR only 1 person in my year left at 16, this may be because it was a (state) grammar school and the assumption was if you'd got to the grammar you were going to pass exams, I guess there would have been more left from the secondary modern down the road.
From wiki, leaving ages were -
1880 - 10
1893 - 11
1899 - 12
1900 - 14
1944 - 15
In the early years there were exemptions if you and reached an educational standard and had a job or lived more than a mile form a school!
AFAIR only 1 person in my year left at 16, this may be because it was a (state) grammar school and the assumption was if you'd got to the grammar you were going to pass exams, I guess there would have been more left from the secondary modern down the road.
From wiki, leaving ages were -
1880 - 10
1893 - 11
1899 - 12
1900 - 14
1944 - 15
In the early years there were exemptions if you and reached an educational standard and had a job or lived more than a mile form a school!
geeman237 said:
https://youtu.be/5pFFPsZLdto
A Thames TV 5 min interview with school leavers in 1974 and their reaction to raising the school leaving age to 16.
I saw this on my YouTube feed this morning. These kids would now be about 64. I wonder how their lives turned out and what their reaction would be to see this again. I’ve no point to make with this post but I thought it may generate some interesting replies from young and old alike on here.
I didn’t know raising the school leaving age to 16 came as late as this. I’m 53 for context and this seems like a bit before my time, but only just.
I left school in 1974 aged 16, I don't recall a change in leaving age. My school had an extension built a few years before I left, it was called The RoSLA building, (Rasing of School Leaving Age). Those extra classrooms went into service a couple of years before I leftA Thames TV 5 min interview with school leavers in 1974 and their reaction to raising the school leaving age to 16.
I saw this on my YouTube feed this morning. These kids would now be about 64. I wonder how their lives turned out and what their reaction would be to see this again. I’ve no point to make with this post but I thought it may generate some interesting replies from young and old alike on here.
I didn’t know raising the school leaving age to 16 came as late as this. I’m 53 for context and this seems like a bit before my time, but only just.
john2443 said:
It changed on 1 Sept 1972 according to Wiki - I'm 64 so I guess could have left in July 72 after my birthday - I did O levels in 73.
AFAIR only 1 person in my year left at 16, this may be because it was a (state) grammar school and the assumption was if you'd got to the grammar you were going to pass exams, I guess there would have been more left from the secondary modern down the road.
From wiki, leaving ages were -
1880 - 10
1893 - 11
1899 - 12
1900 - 14
1944 - 15
In the early years there were exemptions if you and reached an educational standard and had a job or lived more than a mile form a school!
I left my state grammar school aged 15, July 83, I turned 16 three weeks later. I hated the place. AFAIR only 1 person in my year left at 16, this may be because it was a (state) grammar school and the assumption was if you'd got to the grammar you were going to pass exams, I guess there would have been more left from the secondary modern down the road.
From wiki, leaving ages were -
1880 - 10
1893 - 11
1899 - 12
1900 - 14
1944 - 15
In the early years there were exemptions if you and reached an educational standard and had a job or lived more than a mile form a school!
I did pass the odd exam, half a dozen O levels IIRC, but was invited to not stay on in the 6th form.
I seem to recall it was something to do with me being too focused on chasing cricket balls, footballs and skirt.
I left in 74 due to them raising the age limit but that last year was a waste of time for me. All I did was go to work anyway.
The sports teacher used to give a note to my pal asking me to come into school when there was a rugby or football match to play.
I wrote the above before watching the video.
The sports teacher used to give a note to my pal asking me to come into school when there was a rugby or football match to play.
I wrote the above before watching the video.
Edited by Magooagain on Monday 21st February 06:44
john2443 said:
It changed on 1 Sept 1972 according to Wiki - I'm 64 so I guess could have left in July 72 after my birthday - I did O levels in 73.
AFAIR only 1 person in my year left at 16, this may be because it was a (state) grammar school and the assumption was if you'd got to the grammar you were going to pass exams, I guess there would have been more left from the secondary modern down the road.
I did O Levels in 73 too at a boys selective high school - only 1 lad left the year before at 15 and there was quite a big effort to persuade him to stay on, but he wouldn't.AFAIR only 1 person in my year left at 16, this may be because it was a (state) grammar school and the assumption was if you'd got to the grammar you were going to pass exams, I guess there would have been more left from the secondary modern down the road.
I left in 1974.
I remember the announcement and the realization that I had to stay another year.
I didn't enjoy school and all it did was delay me taking an apprenticship in Crewe Loco Works
Having said that, I did mature a bit in that last year and seemed to get on with one or two of the teachers better before I left.
I remember the announcement and the realization that I had to stay another year.
I didn't enjoy school and all it did was delay me taking an apprenticship in Crewe Loco Works
Having said that, I did mature a bit in that last year and seemed to get on with one or two of the teachers better before I left.
)geeman237 said:
...These kids would now be about 64. I wonder how their lives turned out and what their reaction would be to see this again.
I left in 1970 after O-levels, and went to a class reunion in 1994, the year most of us were 40. The range of outcomes was astonishing, from being a Founder and CEO of a large chain of bakeries (from the most unlikely pupil, it has to be said), to serving life imprisonment for murder.
littleredrooster said:
I left in 1970 after O-levels, and went to a class reunion in 1994, the year most of us were 40.
The range of outcomes was astonishing, from being a Founder and CEO of a large chain of bakeries (from the most unlikely pupil, it has to be said), to serving life imprisonment for murder.
Hopefully the reunion was held in a prison!The range of outcomes was astonishing, from being a Founder and CEO of a large chain of bakeries (from the most unlikely pupil, it has to be said), to serving life imprisonment for murder.
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