Words that would have consistently rang out during the year of 1955 if you were one of the then unfortunates to be stuck in class with the distracting and disrupting influence of one 'John Lennon' at the Quarry Bank High School for Boys, in Liverpool. Learning? no chance.
At the age of 15, John Lennon had obviously reached a zenith of his dissatisfaction of being still stuck in school and along with being renowned as a "class clown" he obviously offered little hope of conforming to the school regime, from the "bad behaviour" to the laughable disruption of "silly noises in an examination" (in an exam mind you... ha ha ha) to the curious entry of "sabotage", (wouldn't you just love to know what that was about) and to the exasperated teacher note "just no interest whatsoever" he collected a string of detentions as he ended the school term as a 3rd year student and moved to 4th from September 55.
Parents warned their offspring that "you could end up like that Lennon".
Oh the irony. The irony.
It should always be remembered though despite his absolute non interest in the academic he loved art class and went on to art school (see post) after Quarry Bank.
Here is the full list of Lennon's misdeamours.
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Detention Sheet. May June 1955
John Lennon Class 3b
12 May : Nuisance
16 May : Very bad behaviour
23 May : Chewing in Class
25 May : Misbehaviour again
6 June : Talking in class
8 June : Talking class
15 June Repeated misconduct
16 June : Silly noises in examination
15 June : Very bad conduct
16 June : Sabotage
20 June : Just no interest whatsoever
Detention Sheet. November 1955 Class 4c
25 Nov : Talking in class
2 Dec : Nuisance
6 Dec : SHoving
9 Jan: Misconduct
16 Jan : Silliness
9 Feb : Impudent answer to question
10 Feb : Late for lesson
10 Feb : Nuisance
The prized documents go for auction on November 22 via TracksAuction.com at an estimate of 2000 and 3000 (UK pounds). It's a good bet they'll go higher.
