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Oh wow

I still didn't end up with any of my friends on the end

Should have put in the effort and passed

Even as a 10/11 year old, I knew that grammar school was too snooty

Did you have different areas you could apply for?

Areas? I dunno, it would have been one school in particular

"Devonport high school for boys"

My mum wouldn't me apply for the Slough ones because she thought they were too easy and full of silly people

Ahhh

There's a ton of grammar schools around here, they're grouped by area

Slough, Kingston and Reading are the main ones

Oh I see haha

Silly people

my friends were going to Slough

Oof

Ikr

I would have loved it there

I ended up with my best friend fortunately

I passed the one for reading in the end, despite my efforts

In the same tutor group and everything

That's so nice

I feel bad for you

XDDD

Did you make enough new friends tho

It was fine, I needed to be put more in touch with the non multicultural side of England I guess

Yeah, I did in year 9!

Year 7 and 8 were terrible tbh ?

I wouldn't talk to anyone

Ah

That does suck

I said innit once and got made fun of

Noo, I look back on it with a certain fondness

Even at that age I didn't change who I was just for temporary friends

There's a silver lining everywhere

Even if at the time I couldn't see it

Yeah, fair

I was pretty "school"sick for my old one

One of my friends from primary school tried to emulate the cool kids in year 7