We’re are you popular at school?

School was my sanctury I had a difficult upbringing due to my mother becoming a JW and I was not allowed into school assemblys had to stand outside in the corridoor until the hyms were over and sermons so always felt an outsider but i did join lots of after school clubs and played tennis/netball and rounders for the school teams so any opertunity not to go home was welcome and weekends i was one of thoses who volentered looked after the animals we kept at school so popular or not i was needed i didnt care as i said school was my haven

I was popular with my little group of friends but not with the teachers.?

No! Hated school. One or two girls made my life a misery at times. I had a few good friends. I wasn't a happy child for alot of reasons. Certain people picked on that

I was a misfit I suppose. Messed up family background which was extremely dysfunctional but all looked very nice on the surface.

Professional, middle class. 70s teen, in a time of major generational change and a covered up messed up homelife, extended family etc didn't help matters

I was early 40s through a set up circumstances and a long story I got the therapy and recovery I needed which really helped me sort myself

Life for me I only found real peace of mind and serenity within, in my 40s

No, I hated my school days! I had a few friends but remember being sent to Coventry when I was about nine, I can’t remember why but something to do with being a milk monitor! I no longer see or hear from anyone related to my school days. I have lovely long standing friends now in fact they are closer tome than my siblings!

I passed the 11 plus and went to a girl's grammar school which meant a 6 mile bus journey which I was given a free pass. Walking to the bus stop in my school uniform with little Panama hat was a trial of speed to race through the rough estate where I lived. Very few children went to grammars and would throw stones and be horrible. But I was tough and fast and had grown up with them so could hold my own.
At grammar school the girls tried to belittle me but I was good at sports and the lessons so didn't bother me.
Loved the school it was a real life changer for me. Lots of books which we never had at home,hot plentiful school dinners and all the available sports equipment and gym. I had some friends but didn't really care about being popular. Childhood for me was all about survival.

I wasn't popular until I caught the eye of Kevin (2 years older, boy-about-school). I went out with him for 18 months and went from zero to hero.

I dated his older brother a couple of decades later when I was divorced... meh to him!

But now I am married to a "nerdy" ginger called Gordon (remember Jilted John?). My "nerd" is more of a man than the cool guys ever were and he makes me feel popular and beautiful every single day. He's a fab grandad to all 5 of our grandkids too!!

I was a complete outsider at a small girls’ grammar school in Stockport. I came from a single parent family and we were dirt poor. I was sneered at for my home made school uniform, underwear and shoes. My only friends were two girls who were also regarded as oddities. The only good thing was my ability at English: my mother was an avid reader so I was very well read in adult literature. My nickname was “ The walking dictionary” as I knew fairly obscure words. I think I was desperate for attention so would misbehave to get it. There were only two teachers who ever showed any interest in me, the rest, including Miss Chambers, the headmistress, wrote me off. I became a teacher myself after getting qualifications as a mature student: then, after teaching difficult post 16 students at college I understood why I had been so unpopular…

I am a natural blonde - white now - and I was accused by a girl of dying my hair. I denied it of course but she then started a hate campaign! Thankfully I had so much else to think about I just ignored it but she hated me through school.

No - I was the only child to pass 11 plus and went to a very posh girls grammar school - had no friends there at all and never fitted in, they thought I was a bit common - but I was clever, so when they tried to make me leave at 16 to learn shorthand & typing I refused and got 2 good 'A' levels. Was picked on mercilessly by some of the teachers, was crap at sport so the P E teacher hated me:I refused to chip in for her leaving present and got severely judged by the snotty sporty girls - didn't care though - they just couldn't put me on "my place" which always rankled

I was neither popular nor unpopular. When I was younger I always felt "different" and didn't particulary fit in to a group. Later on, things changed when I found I could make the others laugh, I was quite a good mimic. I was at an all girls school and my closest three friends to this day were all from school, so I must have done something right.

tiredoldwoman well you obviously fit in with Blondiescot and myself so I’d say you do! Who needs more than two anyway

Yes, I was like Blondiescot and Platypus ! Still don't fit in anywhere even on Gransnet .

I hated school, particularly secondary school. I wasn't popular but had one good friend, until our form teacher decided to split us up "to help us to mix." I was even more miserable then.

One of my DGDs is starting secondary school at the end of this month. She is a very gentle and trusting girl, very easily hurt, and I can't help feeling anxious on her behalf. I tell her it will be great, of course, and keep my fingers crossed that it will.

I was a scholarship girl at an independent girls' school and took a long time before I found my niche, which was bright rebel. Hopeless at sport, which I hated, I was never made a prefect but edited the school magazine and chaired the debating forum. I had a group of like-minded friends but was not "popular" in the sense the OP means.

I was 18 months younger than my classmates, a "yokel" (according to them), tomboy, immature for my age whilst they were very civilised middle-class grammar school girls in the main.Still I don't regret going to that school, even so young, it was an excellent education and I'm not someone who needs to be the centre of attention anyway.It would have helped if I hadn't gone on to a veterinary degree at a "posh" university where about 80% of fellow students were privately educated. 12 years of being the underdog knocked my confidence a little! But great friends along the way,

I was popular at school and I think it was because I was good at sports, fairly attractive and bright. I was however a bit of a rebel and always spoke up if something was unfair. My report said I was a born leader and although I never ruled the world I did become chair of many organisations.

Don't think I was either popular or unpopular. I just pootled, along. I was the perfect candidate for bullying - fat, wore glasses, rubbish at all sports and brainy. Think I escaped the bullying because I was funny and went to discos and dances (the brainy girls usually stayed at home). I also had a big brother who was good looking and popular so lots of girls fancied him (therefore they were nice to me) and boys were his mates (so I was like their wee sister too). To be honest I don't recall a lot of bullying going on at my school.

no, I was one of only three students who went home for lunch, no friends poor me

I was very quiet and shy and poor at sport so never picked for the teams. I did have friends though and am still friends with some of them now.

I can't say I was popular at primary, secondary, or FE college. I had 2 friends at secondary but we didn't really hang out together as a three. Then onto work. I've always struggled to 'fit-in' and moved about from job to job because I never felt anyone had any faith in me and always felt a failure and somewhat boring. But when I was 49 I took a huge risk, left yet another job, went back to college to retain as a sports therapist and found something I was really good at and really loved. This also brought me lots of good solid friendships which I cherish everyday.

Never popular at school. I was always different and didnt fit in. My mother was odd and wouldnt have anyone round to our house so my social skills were almost non-existent. With hindsight (I had counselling for many years as an adult) its probable mother had autism, and I had selective mutism as a result of her complete lack of interaction with me, but of course neither of these things were recognised or known about in 1950s Britain. I was a highly anxious child and at primary school frequently wet myself with fear. I can still remember the burning shame of it. I was bullied from day one at the girls grammar, but I discovered a store cupboard in my second year and used to hide in there at breaks and lunch time and read books or do my homework. I studied incredibly hard to take myself away from my situation and ended up being the first one in my family to go to university. I finally sorted myself out when I had my own children. No way was I going to let them grow up like me.

I wasn't unpopular, but I was shy and quiet and just liked to get on with my lessons (qualities liked by teachers but not other kids), and that often made me a target. I wasn't good at sports so wasn't one of the first to be picked for teams. But I was good at netball and continued to play for the 'old girls' team when I left school. I did excel in a few subjects, coming first in class, and indeed top of the school every year I was there, and that also brought 'criticism' from other children and sometimes their parents too. But I was a tough cookie and learned to ignore the jibes and comments or turn them back on the bullies. I actually enjoyed my school years (both primary and secondary) and wanted to stay on an extra year to take A-Level Art, my favourite subject which I had had to drop to do the commercial course my Mum insisted I take. Mum wouldn't let me do another year and possibly get into art college, she wanted me to start earning money.

Middle of the road,never got picked on.Had 6 girls who were like minded l hung about with, kept out of trouble.

Blondiescot

No, I was always the odd one out too, something which has stayed with me all my life. Never fitted in...

Me too, I was a bit awkward and have always been a bit different. However I've made some very good friends in my life who value me and my straightfordwardness.
We may be different but we're just not one of the crowd....

I think that I was always seen as a bit eccentric as I was a bit of a bookworm and enjoyed painting and theatre and didn’t go to the local clubs and hang outs with the others. I was the only child in the lower school allowed to go on theatre trips as I had read the plays we were going to see so I know teachers saw me as a bit precocious . I never felt popular or unpopular at school but had enough friends to see me through.