![]() I suppose I must have plumped for the office option as I remember sitting at a desk with a typewriter. I neither wanted to be a nurse (we had been shown around the local hospital to see tape worms in jars, etc) or work in an office. The two other streams were for the least able pupils. Woman: ‘In my last year at school we had to choose whether we wanted to go in the class that lead us onto a nursing career or a class for those interested in office/secretarial work. In short, this 11-plus exam wasn’t quite the meritocratic, objective test it was made out to be. On the first day of Year One, I saw her in her grammar school uniform. I remember our class teacher saying something reassuring to the girl on ‘results day’. She was someone who had always finished in the ‘top half’ of the top stream in primary school. The visible display of that at my school was one girl who came to school on ‘results day’, clearly and obviously having failed. They had the ultimate say-so on who would pass. She explained to me several years later that that is what primary school headteachers did. I thought that I would fail but my mother (who was a primary school teacher) assured me that I wouldn’t because the headteacher had told her that I wouldn’t! At the time this seemed odd. I passed and went first to Harrow Weald County Grammar School and then (because we moved when I was sixteen) to Watford Boys’ Grammar School. I came to this subject in several ways: personally, my educational experience began when I was three in 1949, so I hit the 11-plus in 1956-57. Michael Rosen and Emma-Louise Williams explain the background to their website, Sec Mod, which is collecting memories of education at secondary modern schools in Britain. In the final product, your Tri-OS area is still a part of the displayed MFD, but it's dimmed and inactive.Blackwell Secondary Modern School. This is still depicted in some versions of the game manual. That area was highlighted if the player had any Repairing Software installed, with the small dark window displaying the current version of the Software.
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