[HPFGU-OTChatter] Experiment

[Shaun Hately]

On 6 Nov 2003 at 17:27, Laura Ingalls Huntley wrote:

> Ahh...little boys in nice, neat little school uniforms always make 
> me...giggle.  Not that I am particularly the giggling sort, mind you.  
> It's just...I don't know.  I saw the Westminster Boys' Choir once, and 
> they made me feel the same way.  I got this wild urge to run through 
> the pews waving my arms and yelling "Run! Be free little boys! Be 
> free!" whilst they all scattered and ran out into the street.  Luckily 
> enough, I didn't.  I don't know what they would have done with me, but 
> I suspect it might have involved getting thrown out of England.

Little boys? LITTLE BOYS!?!?

I'll have you know we were 13 in that picture and we most assuredly were not 
LITTLE BOYS! (-8

It was actually one of our pet hates... our school had an unusual grade structure 
for Australia - we were a preparatory school that ran from Grade 5-Year 8 (age 
10-13) then we passed onto the senior school (the big school) at 14.

Most schools were divided on primary/secondary lines - Grade Prep to 6 was 
primary (age 5-11) and Year 7-Year 12 was secondary (age 12-17).

Now, with our summer uniform in that image, not many schools wore that uniform 
style - but nearly every single school that did reserved it to the primary grades. 
We were unusual wearing it up until age 13 - most stopped at 11.

And in our universe, this was a situation that could be very embarassing. It 
actually seemed to us that our entire school was attempting to keep us as 'little 
boys' when in fact, we were very grown up (-8

I am *SOOOOOOO* grateful I went there. The year of absolute hell I'd endured 
the year before at another school when I was 12, more or less destroyed my 
childhood. This school, for one year, gave me the chance to get it back. And I am 
so incredibly glad I had that.

But at the time, it did seem a bit odd. 


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