[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Ray.

I'm not nearly as deep and tend to treat unsolved mysteries as akin to a good campfire ghost story. Some of them really do send a chill up the spine. That obviously doesn't rob me of my ability to empathise with any victims in such cases, but my motive in watching/reading true crime is unashamedly morbid curiosity.

….ahhhhh, I think though that whatever our specific fascination, it’s a good thought that those stories do find a way of making themselves known, rather than forgotten moments in time, you know…any curiosity that brings to mind is no bad thing…

[Ray.]

Originally Posted by Merry Mockmas

I'm more mixed about them tbh.

I'm more mixed about secondary (leaning negative tbh), but thought primary school was a joyous time. Our class was like one close knit family for all those years.

[Ray.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

….ahhhhh, I think though that whatever our specific fascination, it’s a good thought that those stories do find a way of making themselves known, rather than forgotten moments in time, you know…any curiosity that brings to mind is no bad thing…

Yes, especially the John/Jane Doe cases. There are one or two such cases where I check back every few years (usually when the case rears itself in my mind again tbh) to see if the subject has finally been identified.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Ray.

Yes, especially the John/Jane Doe cases. There are one or two such cases where I check back every few years (usually when the case rears itself in my mind again tbh) to see if the subject has finally been identified.

…it’s strange…(…and random…)…to have this conversation in the random thread……about unsolved cases in general and you then you saying that there are a couple of cases that you tap in on every now and again…?…when I went on my email page earlier and looked at the news section and this story was ‘randomly’ there…

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/aristocrat...170000084.html

…and the randomness of it is that this is a story from 2011 and there are no updates to it so it just felt quite a ‘random’ thing for it to appear at all and at a specific time when we were chatting about unsolved cases…it’s actually a story that I found particularly disturbing and that we were discussing here on the forum …and that I also ‘tap into’ now and again for any possible updates as to if Xavier DuPont was ever located/which he hasn’t been …it’s a bit Lord Lucan-ish in his disappearance …he executed his wife, his four children and the family dogs and buried their bodies under the house and then completely disappeared…if I recall, with one of the children…he called him home from resident boarding school to execute him…it’s a case that stayed with me for a long, long time and one I still think about from time to time…and just so bizarre that it should ‘randomly’ appear this morning as if it was a new story and without it even having any update added to it either…

[Merry Mockmas]

Originally Posted by Ray.

I'm more mixed about secondary (leaning negative tbh), but thought primary school was a joyous time. Our class was like one close knit family for all those years.

I was more in and out at secondary School.

Tbh School just wasn't my jam, I could never socialise with people very well back then.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Merry Mockmas

I was more in and out at secondary School.

Tbh School just wasn't my jam, I could never socialise with people very well back then.

Yeah that was my take on high school

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Ray.

I'm more mixed about secondary (leaning negative tbh), but thought primary school was a joyous time. Our class was like one close knit family for all those years.

Same experience here .

[Merry Mockmas]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Yeah that was my take on high school

Especially when they wanted to talk about Justin Bieber, Zac Efron, or some random Rapper.

[Zizu]

Maybe the vast majority loved their primary school time and had a mixed ( at best) time at high schools ?

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Merry Mockmas

Attending Primary School.

Originally Posted by Ray.

Yeah me too. Miss those days sometimes.

Originally Posted by Merry Mockmas

I'm more mixed about them tbh.

Originally Posted by Ray.

I'm more mixed about secondary (leaning negative tbh), but thought primary school was a joyous time. Our class was like one close knit family for all those years.

Originally Posted by Merry Mockmas

I was more in and out at secondary School.

Tbh School just wasn't my jam, I could never socialise with people very well back then.

…primary school days are often special because our class teachers and classmates remain constant throughout our whole time there, with only small changes sprinkled in…whereas with higher schools, we will have registration/year groups and teachers…?…but we may not share other lessons with them so much so the bonds don’t attach in the same way…each child I’d only really involved in part of the school, as opposed to all of the school…which tends to often be the way more in primary school…it’s a very special time for many and a great foundation to build on…(…hopefully…)…for a child’s school life…..

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…primary school days are often special because our class teachers and classmates remain constant throughout our whole time there, with only small changes sprinkled in…whereas with higher schools, we will have registration/year groups and teachers…?…but we may not share other lessons with them so much so the bonds don’t attach in the same way…each child I’d only really involved in part of the school, as opposed to all of the school…which tends to often be the way more in primary school…it’s a very special time for many and a great foundation to build on…(…hopefully…)…for a child’s school life…..

Plus you start at primary as the big fish in q small pond then the massive change to being a small fish in a huge pond

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Plus you start at primary as the big fish in q small pond then the massive change to being a small fish in a huge pond

…do you mean that you finish as the ‘big fish’…?…I get that as well but I feel that it’s also that the ocean is generally so much bigger and whereas primary school age is more about ‘nurturing’ and confidence building, higher schools are more independent learning…

[Ray.]

Ahem. The issue at my secondary was more that the kids were generally quite *****.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…do you mean that you finish as the ‘big fish’…?…I get that as well but I feel that it’s also that the ocean is generally so much bigger and whereas primary school age is more about ‘nurturing’ and confidence building, higher schools are more independent learning…

Big fish in a small pond - primary school

Small fish in a big pond - secondary / high / grammar school