Would you really go back to school?

Hotspur
Sounds like a lot of fun.

The problem I had with school (six different schools) was that it was never a good thing to be clever or wish to learn. Being good at sport had a certain amount of cache and I was hopeless at sport but among girls, the most desirable thing was to be pretty and fashionable. We had uniforms but you could see who had bad haircuts, wore their tie or their socks in an unfashionable way, didn't know about the latest pop music, TV, slang... I was always considered a weirdo. University was a pretty good time (although it had its downsides like a lot of sexual harassment) because there it was possible to find a group of fellow weirdos.

Interesting that nearly all the comments here are from those who attended European schools.
No, I would not want to go back to school and have to go through all the turmoil of adolescence.
Have to say though that my own school room experience was for the most part not unpleasant except for maybe a couple of years, like the 4th grade(mean teacher) and 8th grade(making the transition to high school) and struggling with math class in particular.
As for the paddle, i was a pretty well- behaved kid and never got in trouble. It was not used at the high school level, and at the grade school level, usually only for really bad behavior or serious offenses.
This topic brings to mind a country song by Jimmy Martin called "I'd Like To Be 16 Again(And Know What I Know Now). Alas, impossible.

As a schoolboy in England during the late 60's I had some good times and some bad times (somewhat bullied because I was one of only 4 music students doing O levels (now called GCSE's)).
Yes, corporal punishment was still a thing though I only got the rules across my bottom once (sadly from a male teacher) but it was ever a fascinating subject for me.

School role-playing? HECK YES!!!! (manic exclamations lol)

If any lady 'teachers' want to join in with Hotspur's online role-play suggestion.. please count me in!!
Either way, I would suggest you use the chat room right here.

My second prep school was the best of all the schools I attended. Slipperings and canings were, if not frequent, hardly rare occurences but very little bullying because our housemaster never turned a blind eye to it. I think in the early sixties it was fashionable to pretend it was character building for small boys to be bullied. The bullies were aided by the strict code of no snitching. Nowadays I am sure it is worse with online bullying even causing suicides. Something serious should have been done about it years ago. If I could be young again I would of course like to attend my fantasy school staffed by extremely stern but attractive schoolmistress's but a real school no way! No one really believed in that happiest days of your life rubbish!

I went to school in the USA during the 1960´s. There was no corporal punishment.

I was OK in grade school. But in high school I was extremely unhappy. I understand now, after reading Ayn Rand´s essay The Comprachicos, exactly why I was so unhappy during high school. My parents had sent me to an elite private prep school just outside of Boston. This prep school gave me a "better" education than the one I would have received in public high school back home in New Jersey. But just exactly because the education was "better" - in the sense that the prep school was better at communicating the ideas to me which it was teaching - precisely for that reason I was damaged by my education. For the prep school was busy feeding my mind an awful lot of falsehoods, instead of feeding my mind truth!

I wound up developing a psychosis when I was 18 - largely as a result of the content of my education (I spent fifteen months in a mental hospital with a diagnosis of schizophrenia).

I heartily recommend Ayn Rand´s essay The Comprachicos (available in Return of the Primitive, edited by Peter Schwartz) for anyone who wishes to understand the state of education in the western countries (the USA and Europe, primarily) today. I had an "aha" experience when I read this essay for the first time, and the essay relieved me of the guilt which I had felt for my "failed" education.

I was educated in public schools in an American suburb that had a good school system with high standards. Needless to say, it along with the community has gone way downhill in the years since I graduated. I liked high school because we were finally treated as responsible individuals and some of my teachers were excellent. I didn't like the junior high and before that, the elementary school I attended because it was a very rigid atmosphere. In fact, this is where many of my fantasies about strict young female teachers started because I had a few of those. By the way, these teachers were usually even harsher in the way they treated us girls than they were with the boys. I do recall, however, that in junior high, my brother forgot his PT kit one day and the "coach" made him wear a girl's kit. So many fantasies could start in junior high in those days, even without corporal punishment, which had long been abolished, although one elementary school music teacher who struck a boy managed to get off after a civil suit against him went to court. So there was no spanking, caning, strapping, etc. I like the English school stories because I lived in the UK for a year when I was just out of university--I'm not au courant on slang any more but I remain familiar enough with many aspects of school life there.

I grew up in a rural area in the US, (California) and liked parts, despised others, including some bullying toward the end. CP did happen, but not a lot. (I'd have preferred having it from a pretty teacher or principal, so the stories with those things in them are appreciated.) I don't care to read about severe punishments at all.

I find many of these experiences extremely sad and quite unlike my own. When I started school in 1961, corporal punishment had been banned for 25 years, and although we occasionally heard wild stories, I never saw a teacher use any kind of violence against a student. Not all my teachers were brilliant communicators, but I consider them all to have been fundamentally kind and well-intended. In high school some of the older teachers could have a quite brusque verbal style, and some of them would even appear quite intimidating in an almost military way, but they were fundamentally fair to the students, and they were quick to stop any sort of bullying. They could definitely have done more to help "odd" students like myself, but people hadn't started thinking that way yet.

I most defintely would not wish to go back to that school or revisit the experiences i had at that school.

Hate is a strong word, but i truly hated my schooldays from age 11 onwards.

i would not want to revisit that school, see majority of those staff or virtually all the other pupils at that school again.

To put that in very much present days terms, i self isolate and socially distance myself from the above.