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[cypezokyli]

i tried to make a google research but with the term "student parades/ marches" , i mostly get anti-war, anti-gpverment ones.

the parades i am interested in, are the ones that students from public school march once or twice a year to celebrate a national holiday (or a workers day) .

if you have any info as to if student parades exist / existed (if existed when were they abolished) in the coutry you come from or you are currently a resident, i would appriciate it.

thanks.

[thebrix]

cypezokyli wrote: i tried to make a google research but with the term "student parades/ marches" , i mostly get anti-war, anti-gpverment ones.

the parades i am interested in, are the ones that students from public school march once or twice a year to celebrate a national holiday (or a workers day) .

if you have any info as to if student parades exist / existed (if existed when were they abolished) in the coutry you come from or you are currently a resident, i would appriciate it.

thanks.

They still exist in the North of England and Scotland. "Gala Days" date from times when there was, bluntly, grinding poverty and no holidays; there was a half-day taken off work (on a Saturday!) and schoolchildren and the local workers (primarily steel workers and miners where I come from) marched for what seemed like miles round the town, led by brass bands, then sat down in the middle of the local park where the local Gala Day Queen, typically the head girl of the local school, was crowned. Things fizzled out rather anti-climatically after that; everyone went either to the pub or the fairground :D

The best known one (local to where I was born) is The Bo'ness Fair which has caused some disquiet recently as it has been commercialised to some extent.

Grangemouth Gala Day (my own Gala Day) is a much more low-key and, I have to say, untainted event. It is held on the third Saturday in June.

[CY]

I don't know if this qualifies as a parade as such but at Warwick university there is something called One World Week.
Quote: Recognised as the world's largest student run international event, OWW is a fusion of cultures and traditions, converstation and debate, unique to the University of Warwick and the 800 students or more that participate each year.

http://www.sunion.warwick.ac.uk/oww/website/index2.htm

[cypezokyli]

thanks CY , but i was mostly reffering to "organised by the state" parades. you know, the ones where junior and high school students have to walk like the military in front of the emperor, in order to stimulate national pride. :wink:

[CY]

oh right. sorry :wink:

[boomerang]

cypezokyli wrote: thanks CY , but i was mostly reffering to "organised by the state" parades. you know, the ones where junior and high school students have to walk like the military in front of the emperor, in order to stimulate national pride. :wink:

not in oz...no student parades and no hardware parades...just the way I like it...

I always associated these parades with third world mentality...yes I know they run these parades in the Republic of Cyprus, Turkey and Greece...

[cannedmoose]

Not in England either. The only big state organised national parades we have are theTrooping the Colour which involves army soldiers dressed in ceremonial garb, and the Remembrance Sunday parade which involves a march past of old soldiers past the Cenotaph in London.

Neither of these are particularly militaristic and we only seldom have parades of military hardware rumbling through the streets. To be honest from an English perspective all such parades remind me of those in front of the Kremlin or North Korea. The last such parade in England that I can remember was to mark the 50th anniversary of D-day, but that was a very limited affair and certainly didn't involve main battle tanks, rocket systems or anything in our arsenal beyond a few landrovers and APCs. I certainly can't ever imagine us parading a few Trident missiles through Whitehall :shock:

As for student parades, students in this country can barely organise a piss-up in a pub, let alone a mass parade down The Mall. :lol:

[city]

cypezokyli wrote: ....the parades i am interested in, are the ones that students from public school march once or twice a year to celebrate a national holiday (or a workers day) ...

we had those in the former GDR :-)

May, 1st - International Workers Day
October, 7th - day when GDR was founded in 1949