School was a routine we were subjected to for so many of our formative years.

Was it a fair system? Was it fun? How I can on answer that? The rules were set and applied by the paid employees of the education department. Such individuals came from all walks of life. They had many different personal standards and values. Like with all things in life, luck played a part in deciding who the controllers of our days were. However one thing was certain, the power was with the teachers.

I attended the...

I attended Elwood High School from 1974 to 1977, after completing Grade 6 at St.Kilda Park Primary School. The years I spent at EHS hold some of the best memories of my life. Not that they were all good, of course. These were really the formative times, where all the usual stuff that happens in a teenagers life, happened. A lot of what I'm talking about has come flooding back to me by watching Puberty Blues on TV!

I remember the quadrangle and the buildings that surrounded it very clearly...