I liked school,everything besides the math.I hated it
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I hated everything except maths. Teachers were cr@p.
The high point was that fell for a girl very heavily & were together for couple of years before going to uni (went to different unis & it was end of our WONDERFUL time together). I wonder where she is now.
I was the "geek" type in school
shareNope. Disliked it immensely. I love to learn things, but hate school. I never had a great experience in school. The teachers and students were very rude for the most part, and I didn't really learn much of anything.
Went to college for one year, and then dropped out. Didn't find things too much different there either.
I think self-education is the best thing one can do for oneself, personally. There's lots of free resources available outside of a classroom if one chooses to seek it.
Self-education is pretty good once you commit to it, I think. But I think employers look for college/university degrees, though....
share Kind of the same thing for me in terms of high school. I enjoyed learning but the people aspect was terrible. I gave serious thought to dropping out at age 16 but at that time a high school diploma was the only way to go to college. So I gutted it out and senior year was not too bad as people started to break from their clicks and be their own person.
College was OK but the people aspect got to be problem towards the end. Very cut throat and cold but as some friends said that will just prepare you better for the world once your education has concluded.
Sorry you had such a rough time in school, and that your teachers and fellow students, for the most part, were so rude and nasty. That must've been hard to take. Sorry that college didn't work out for you, either, but glad that you finally found your own way (self-education), to learn things.
As I pointed out earlier, school was a bitter-sweet experience for me, and my grades were basically deplorable, although I did make it through school and high school.
I found it too slow, thus boring. By the time I reached the end of HS i had no interest in continuing school. A poor decision on my part.
share I liked school. Grade school was fun. But it depended on some of the teachers. Some were so strict and "mean". But they were the ones who taught me the most. When I went on to college I always sent up a silent prayer to those tough teachers who drilled grammar, punctuation, etc, into my little pointy head.
I loved my high school. I really did. The only class I remember hating with a total PASSION was phys. ed. We played volleyball almost every time. I hate it, hate it, hate it! LOL
When I was in high school I got contact lenses. I lived in fear of being hit in the face with the volleyball and having one pop out. I also have long nails. Hitting a ball is painful.
The phys. ed. teacher called be "bonehead" because I would duck out of the way of the ball. High school would have been paradise if not for that asinine, stupid gym class!
My issue wasn't with the teachers, I had some good ones and I had some bad ones. It was the pacing of the classes themselves and busy work which I hate to this day. I really disliked that test and quizzes did not make up more of your 9 week scores when they are examples of actual knowledge in the subject you are taking. I was also not a big show your work kind of guy in math, which used to irritate the math teachers. While I still feel schools should accelerate the classes and expect more of students rather than continuing to lower the bar so certain students can slide by. I know that looking back I was very stupid in how I treated school, I could have done well enough to get scholarships for Colleges instead of realizing too late that I did need to go, because even today some jobs put more importance on a degree than on the ability of a person to do the job.
share"It was the pacing of the classes themselves and busy work which I hate to this day. I really disliked that test and quizzes did not make up more of your 9 week scores when they are examples of actual knowledge in the subject you are taking."
Yep, exactly the same for me, for the same reasons.
The meanest teacher I had was in elementary school and I learned nothing from her. I've mellowed out on a lot of the negatives that took place back then but I will always dislike her.
Similar experience for me with gym class but it was basketball. I had terrible coordination and the teachers thought they were in the business of producing pro-players. I always envied the friends who had a different gym teacher as the only thing that mattered was the exercise which was the point of the state mandating such a class.
I remember in 8 th grade our biology teacher did an experiment on us.He injected a small dose of TBC to see how our imune sistem will react.
shareThat's nothing. In elementary school our 3rd grade teacher injected us with a small amount of heroin. Because she could.
shareHave you noticed? People always have to one up croft in order to tell a far better story!
Another ISM??????
My teacher used to give us neat gin in a sippy cup followed by an ecstasy tab.
shareWow, your teacher was a real trailblazer! And creative, that one.
shareDo Tell!!!!!
shareSchool, especially high school, was a rather bitter-sweet experience for me. Due to my being different, I was constantly made fun of and ostracized by most kids, both boys and girls. I wanted so much to at least form friendships with boys, but forming friendships with girls was tough enough for me as it was. I did have one friend that I hung out with. Freshman year was okay, but Sophomore year was rather rough. During Junior and Senior year, I got into our Select Chorus by default (I hadn't made it after auditioning during the spring of my sophomore year due to my lack of sight-reading abilities), but due to a mistake in scheduling by the school Administration, Mr. Wentworth, who was the head of our high school's music department, decided that I shouldn't have to be penalized for the school Administration's stupid mistake, so I was allowed to join Select Chorus. This definitely helped sweeten the pot for me somehow, although I still pined for the teenaged social life (i. e. dates, parties, etc., that I didn't have), and although I had one good friend that I hung out with, I wanted a little bit more than that.
I envied the kids who were doing all the hell-raising, having fun, and all, and I, too, wanted to be part of that, but, for all kinds of reasons, I couldn't. Math and Chemistry were horrible for me, and I disliked both subjects. Spanish was okay for me, too, I liked the teacher, and I had a crush on a boy in my Spanish class who was a year behind me in school, who lived on the "wrong side" of the town where I grew up, and would've liked to at least be friends with him, but, for all kinds of reasons, wasn't possible. That crush lasted for a long time after high school. He's long since been married, however, with a couple of kids, and lives in a town that's an hour northwest of Boston.
Art, Spanish, Biology and Select Chorus were my favorite subjects. History and English were okay too, although I ended up fucking up my 2nd year of Spanish during my Junior year, and being asked not to take any more Spanish the following year. I also wanted to take Anatomy and Physiology during my Senior year of high school, but was asked not to take that, either, due to my having fucked up royally in Chemistry on my Junior year, either.
"I loved my high school. I really did. The only class I remember hating with a total PASSION was phys. ed. We played volleyball almost every time. I hate it, hate it, hate it! LOL"
Ha! I didn't like my phys. ed class either, but loved playing volleyball. Anything was better than running laps around the football field to me.
breathfromanother- LOL I didn't mind running laps. Sometimes we did calisthenics. I liked jumping jacks. I liked anything where we moved around and didn't play team sports. I'm not very co-ordinated and I don't have that killer instinct to win. I just wanted to pass the class.
We also played softball which I HATED. I still remember diving for a ball, catching it and breaking a nail. Made me furious!
Almost everyone hates school, even if they like some of the subjects they're studying.
But FYI school is more interesting and less authoritarian than entry-level jobs.
I didn't care for grade school. I went to a Catholic grammar school. Some of those nuns really needed training in how you deal with kids!
High school was fun. I enjoyed much of it. i especially loved our Drama Club. We put on some good plays. My favorite was Bye Bye Birdie. Mine wasn't a big part in that one.... just one of the teenage girls, but I did get to run up and throw myself at the guy who played Birdie. At the time, I had a huge crush on him!
I do remember many times wishing that time would speed up and my school days would be over. I wanted to get out into the real world! Imagine that. 😄
Hated school, loved college.
shareI ended up taking afew years off after graduating from high school back in June of 1969. Being female was definitely an advantage back then, since I didn't have to worry about being drafted and sent off to Viet Nam to either kill or be killed. I found my calling a couple of years after graduating from high school, and went to art school for a long time, which I loved. I'm lucky that my family was able to do it.
As for high school, I wish that something like Martial Arts had been offered. I would've taken it. I hated Physical. Education, especially having it four times a week. Martial Arts was not considered a feminine thing, and the idea of a girl or woman studying the Martial Arts back when I went to high school was unheard of.
I went to college for broadcasting, and later library studies. When I used to complain about how high school sucked, my mom would say "work hard and go to college, then you can study anything you want!" She was right.
I was ok in Physical Education. I was one of the smaller people so I got picked on, and they laughed when I wanted to try out for football and take auto shop. I ended up hitting a huge growth spirt in grade 12 and the braces and classes came off too. By then I was into creative writing and stuff.
What did you turn your art training into?
I am a male librarian for a living now (and i work with kids everyday) and a lot of people don't understand that as well.
I became a silversmith, who, several years after having finished my studies, ended up moving into a large artists' community in a city just outside Boston, and have owned my own condominium with a studio in it, for the past roughly 30 years. I'm glad of it, too.
Sorry you got picked on in school just for being smaller. Glad you got into something that you enjoyed. Creative writing is neat. Glad you're a librarian and are enjoying yourself.
When you get older you start to realize you really can do anything you want with your life. Life is what you make it.
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