How are all your primary school classmates doing? Have they changed?

I mean do you still keep in contact now that your in ______ (Uni/Secondary School/College or a job)?

How are they doing academically?

I'm applying to uni and I know most of my classmates in primary school are either in jobs now or have dropped out of school. A small few are going to uni.

I didnt state that just to boast but just wondering have your primary school classmates changed a lot over secondary school and college? I mean I wasn't clever in Primary school- All my SATS levels were below average- (Level 3s) and the people who did well academically in primary school (high sats levels Levels 5) are now in poor jobs or applying to okay universities. It just seems like a role reversal!

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Reply 1

Junker

Good question. When I was at primary school, I wasn't too clever, got level 4s in my SATs and was just average. My group of friends were all much cleverer than I am. My whole group of friends went to a certain school, one to a grammer school and I to a different one. I'm surprised, no disrepect intended, that some of them aren't going to uni and the ones that are are going to metropolitans.

Reply 2

The_Lonely_Goatherd

We had a reunion a while back, which was fairly weird. It seemed to be split down the middle (as one might have predicted even then) to the people at unis or specialist colleges and the people who were working or had already had children. We all added each other on Facebook in the run-up to the reunion but I only actively speak to/meet up with one, and even us two are having less and less in common as time goes by...

:smile:

Reply 3

Laurah5498

I met my best friend at primary school and we went to the same school and sixth form. We still speak at least once a week and she's off to uni in September. Another one is the girlfriend of my other best friend and she's doing an apprenticeship.

The rest are either working, pregnant or on the dole. I did see the girl that bullied me the other week get caught shoplifting in Primark. I laughed so hard for the entire day :biggrin:

Karma is a wonderful, beautiful thing :smile:

Reply 4

Afrotortina

I've been to a fair few schools so it differs:

I'm autistic, so spent my Year R/ 1 in a special needs school. Some of the kids I was with have either died or ended up living in adult care homes... that's really sad.

Then another of my schools (Year 5) was near Portsmouth. One girl was pregnant by 14, most have apprenticeships or working, only a couple are at uni, but none of the top lot...

Then year 6 school- one girl on the jeremy kyle show (!!) but the majority are at unis or like me working at the supermarket (im saving for uni)

Then i went to a private school for secondary school/ 6th form and we are ALL going to good unis (no pressure from them!).... :biggrin:

Ive had an interesting life!!!

Reply 5

Accalia

Well, let's see... there are at least three on drugs, one who has been taken into psychiatric care and the rest are applying for sixth form. The majority of my class were fairly intelligent. It's amazing how people change over the course of high school, no? :o:

EDIT: Oh wait, I forgot the one who moved down South and got pregnant.

Reply 6

never say never

Laurah5498

Karma is a wonderful, beautiful thing :smile:

I do not believe you :biggrin:

.That is just not possible.Shoplifting at Primark?

I thought primark was brought on to the high street to deter shoplifters :confused:

Reply 7

fire2burn

Hmm primary school people...

A couple are in prison
Two of us went to university
And the others all have kids.

:/

Reply 8

Conorrr9

Are people seriously in touch with primary school friends?! The ones I even know of are the ones that have stayed at my school.

Reply 9

248677

The vast majority of my primary school friends all went to the same Secondary school and I was one of a handful that went elsewhere, so I haven't really kept in contact. But I know about a few of them- about half a dozen are going off to university, one is pregnant, one died suddenly a year or two ago, three are enrolled on a childcare course at my local college, and a few others are doing other vocational courses. I would guess that at least three or four are in young offenders or prison by now.

Reply 10

Antonia87

My closest primary school friends - one moved to Australia to manage a bar and didnt go to uni, one is travelling after graduating from Durham and two had children both at 18 and are now working mothers.

Reply 11

concubine

As far as I can remember no one has changed that much. The stupid ones all have kids and crappy jobs/JSA, the more intelligent are pretty much all in education or decent jobs.

Reply 12

Advanced Subsidiary

Half of them don't even remember my name.

Reply 13

VersaEmerge

vivid_

well i moved after primary school from london to the north. i know one guy who still owes me money (3quid was a lot back then!) went to jail cos he had a gun on him. one girl has a 3 year old son and another is pregnant :s-smilie:

tho i did meet one of my old mates at my imperial interview

Reply 14

younglawyer

Most of the kids I was with are either in prison or have committed some crime. Yes, I went to a a rough comprehensive, I'm now on my way to becoming a lawyer...ahh the joys of life :smile:

Reply 15

ligouri

They are all losers while I am godlike

Reply 16

Laurah5498

never say

I do not believe you :biggrin:

.That is just not possible.Shoplifting at Primark?

I thought primark was brought on to the high street to deter shoplifters :confused:

Yep, shoplifting in Primark :yep:

She is the type though, she's proper scum.

Reply 17

Perplexingly_Jaded

I don’t keep in touch with anyone I went to primary school with :sadnod:

From what I’ve heard, several went to young offenders for car theft etc (so are probably in prison for other crimes now), several have children and others have jobs. No one as far as i know has went to University except me.

I did see a boy I went to primary school the other day. I remember being 9 years old and him saying “I’m going to marry you some day” and I was like “eww, no” :s-smilie:

. I wouldn’t be saying that now though :sexface:

Reply 18

Pisces94

Yeah most of them are on my Facebook and some of them are going to the same sixth form as I am - seen a few of them on Open Day, they still recognise me!
Yes most have changed, short people are now towering over me and nerds changing their image!

Reply 19

fidelity_blue

Quite a few ended up at my sixth form, most are applying to average unis. And my best friend is off to Oxford this year, which will be the first time we're not in the same place for education since the age of 3.