Talk:Bannerman High School

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Needs topic headings, messy, refs. started. Welcome. Victuallers 14:17, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Neds?
I have to say as a former pupil of Bannerman High School I am completely offended by the suggestion that the majority of students who attend the school are "neds". In my year half of the students, including myself, left to attend Glasgow or Strathclyde University and now have degrees. My accent has never degenerated into slang and I can quite assure you I have never owned a pair of Lacoste "trackies" or "tranies".


 * It is obviously vandalism and you are free to remove it when you see it.

I am far from being a ned and whoecver wrote this article should perhaps complete further research. I'm curious were they an actual pupil at the school? Or is it simply someone "sounding off" about how rubbish the east end of Glasgow is? Granted, a selection of students who do attend the school fall into the "ned" category. I can't deny this any more than I can deny the existence of neds. However, to label an entire school as all being neds shows a lack of knowledge.

A definition of ned please???
I am also really offended by the statement made about the predominance of neds at Bannerman. It would seem to me that the term ned now has no definition other than a youth who is working class, maybe dresses in a particular style or talks maybe in a different way from the person throwing these derogative comments around. It's like they say it as if there has been some survey done which has attempted to both define the term 'ned' and quantify the kids in the school who fit that term - absolute nonsense! Anyone from Glasgow is aware that within some segments of our society we do have problems with violence but in recent years this term ned has really been used as a catch-all phrase to degrade youths in general. I'm really sick of it all. My daughter also attends the school and is a lovely girl (as are all the kids I know who went there from her primary school). She doesn't generally talk slang (although this is no indication of character - neither is the wearing of certain brands of clothing) but that is only because I have always insisted that she talks 'proper' - and only because I am only too aware of the prejudice she will face if she doesn't.(and hate the fact that this is the case). I myself have been brought up in the East End - as was my father - and his mother. I consider myself working class and talk with a broad Glaswegian accent and use slang all the time -it was how we were brought up. What's more I like the way I speak - it allows me to express fully my sense of humour, identity and empathy. I also went to university and got my degree, post graduate degree and work in a professional environment. In a way that fact has allowed me to hold onto my accent as the fact that I have had a good education has gave me some strength in standing up against perceptions that I am somehow less intelligent because of the way I speak - maybe if I wasn't as well educated I would have had to speak more 'proper' in an attempt to detach myself from the negative connotations which accompany the Glasgow accent - and it is clear that this is what loads of people in Glasgow do. I wish people would afford other kids the same respect they give to their own kids. --- Definiton of a ned -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_%28Scottish%29 Hope you understand. Also, I'm a pupil at Bannerman. --Burai 15:54, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

glad to see the offending material has been modified - thanks.

eh Burai - point wasn't if i understood a dictionary definition for term ned.