Things you hated about school

[Auraninja]

I'm mostly talking about grade school and high school, but you can talk about college if you want.

Here's my list.
-I hated how loud fire drills when I was in small school. I remember one time, they made a fire prop that creeped me out as a kid.
- I hated this one time, we had to take a test based on notes we took during a small short we watched in music school. If we got x amount right or higher, the teacher said we were ready for college. If we got lower than that, we were not ready for college. I never remember doing anything like this for college.
-I hated how unnecessarily upset teachers some times get at petty things. One time, I was trying to write a paper, and I erased at the same place on the paper so many times, that it got muddied. I got some scissors to cut it, and I got in big trouble for it.
-I hated the Pokemon card ban. I swear, you might as bring pot to school while you're at it. Like I can understand not bringing it to class, but kids should be allowed to bring it to campus.
-I hated pep rallies. I thought they were totally pointless, with a lot of noise and pointless shenanigans. I would feign a headache and go to the nurse before I went to high school. I think she knew what I was up to, but accepted it anyway.
-One time, a kid punched me in the face because I took the quarter he kept flinging on me.
-One time I got in trouble for supposedly writing a hit list with other students names on it. I never did, and I got written up without my story being heard until later.
-I hated how mean my classmates were to me. They would find a way to bully me. One time, a substitute wanted to write a good note even though they were getting under my skin.
-Speaking off, they would hate me because I believed in evolution, sympathize with the LGBTQ, and since I was autistic, they would hate my unusual behaviors.
-I hate standardize tests, and I think they are a waste of both the student's and the teacher's time. Imagine being in an advanced class, just to dumb it down for the test.
-I hated how we had to pay for the prom even when we were not going. For God's sake, just adjust ticket prices.

This was a near-exhaustive list that I tried to put in near sequential order, but perhaps you have some things you hated about school now or way-back-when.

 

[NovaBrunswick]

-Speaking off, they would hate me because I believed in evolution, sympathize with the LGBTQ, and since I was autistic, they would hate my unusual behaviors.

I'm also autistic, and many things that would already be hard for most "neurotypical" kids - lessons, tests and exams - would be overwhelming for me. Sometimes the other kids would just start talking and shouting so loudly that I couldn't concentrate on my work, so I'd have to go to a quieter place where I could get on with it. I always had an assistant with me so I could get their help and keep me on the task at hand.

-I hated the Pokemon card ban. I swear, you might as bring pot to school while you're at it. Like I can understand not bringing it to class, but kids should be allowed to bring it to campus.

I remember the Pokémon card ban as well, and I think there was also a video game console ban, so you couldn't take your Game Boy into class. Growing up at school, cell phones weren't as widely used as they are now, so I wonder how kids today would cope with a phone ban in schools.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

My school allowed my classmates to bully me. They literally threw garbage at me, made fun of my speech impediment, shoved me and even slap the back of my head hard just so I would turn around and confront them and when I didn’t, hit the back of my head even harder, gave me an extremely offensive nickname, always told me to shut up because “no one care(d)” about what I had to say, and grab my back pack while I’m walking and jerk me backwards to try and make me fall and get hurt. I complain to the school office about all of this and they kept telling me it was all my fault and if I had acted just like everyone else then it would have happened. I wanted to be an individual person back then and for a short amount of time it made me happy that I didn’t want to conform with the crowd and wanted to be myself and an actual individual that had his own dreams and likes and dislikes and not feel like I had to pretend to like sports when I found them boring and go to football games just because everyone else was going. You’d think that the school would admire that I wasn’t giving into peer pressure or following the trends that everyone else was following that the school didn’t like such as wearing pants that were falling off or having multiple piercings but no. They told me I was wrong for wanting to be different and that I should be ashamed of wanting to be an individual. The school chose not to help me because I was different and didn’t fit into their expectations of me. There was a theater kid who always wore this cape and the school allowed him to do it because he was Expressing his individuality but if I wanted to look at Pokémon then it was a problem even though there were a few kids actively playing the games during breaks and wearing shirts with Charizard on them. The school allowed horrible things to happen to me and they knew all about them but they decided not to help me even when I was getting hurt. I’m still bitter about my high school years and I will never participate in anything that they try to get me involved with including some stupid alumni directory.

 

[KingstonUponHulbury]

I was consistently teased, but it was never to the point of 'I seriously do not want to go to school/hate my life'. It helped that I reached adult height (not to mention weight...) by age 13/14, so I could muller tormentors, and as time went on my behaviour became less defensive and I could actually hold a conversation with people I previously despised. Eventually I loved sixth form almost as much as I did university.

I think a far more significant mistake was picking up bad behaviours from friends. That's the thing about socialising within a very limited pool - even the most tenuous connection (like a shared fandom) can make you latch on to unconstructive personalities. It took three years of university to beat out some of the worst traits I'd developed in the company of those 'iffy' people.

I'm really glad I attended an all-boys' school. Scuffles are forgotten much easier and 'drama' never really felt like a thing.

 

[Deadeye]

I hated school generally, mostly probably because of getting bullied. I'm not proud of it, but I was that kid who always tried to go along the rules to keep things easy and smooth for myself and others, especially because I had enough stress adjusting to all noise in the classroom, social anxiety and expectations of actually doing schoolwork... well, I failed miserably. There were rules against bullying but teachers didn't do anything about it even if it happened under their noses, I wasn't allowed to fight back either (or otherwise I'll get blamed for all of it) but obviously it gnawed my self esteem. Parents wouldn't care about it either; legally it was responsibility of teachers to maintain order and safety for students to fulfill their tasks, but they didn't have backbone to act according to their own rules but just preach about them and blame me for "not getting along with them" (hey, I tried to get along, I never fought back to not provoke them :/). Eventually I got so pissed I stopped caring. My bullies hated it, I was that "weird person" who ruined the whole class's good rep for being a Pokemon fan publicly and all that, I got some enjoyment from being able to piss off my bullies like that. It got worse though, some things I'm not gonna even talk about on public forums but it sucked.

I guess another thing I hated was long days at school. Would say it went hand-in-hand with bullying but even at workplace with friendly coworkers and chill atmosphere, I still get somewhat exhausted as in not having enough time for myself. I guess I've always been that person who wanted to focus on "doing my own thing", be it hobbies or something useful for myself. And then doing tasks for others, even if I tried to think it like "doing this for others is an investment for my future, I'll learn to do it for myself too and adjust that knowledge". I carve independence more than the societal standards can offer for a commoner. xD

Oh yeah, and I hated guys and girls having their separate sport classes as well as some crafting classes. Sure if there was any teamwork either side, nobody wanted me into their team anyway due to my bad social status at school and kids fearing that associating with me would get them bullied too, but content of those sports classes was so stereotypically divided between sexes it hurts my undereducated brain. Content and classes should be the same for all, just have separate dressing rooms for necessary privacy.

 

[Leonhart]

Group assignments, especially presentations. I used to skip class if I knew that there was a presentation project coming up, because I hated having to speak in front of the class with the spotlight on me.

 

[WishIhadaManafi5]

Hated group assignments, since it was often a popularity contest and I was usually chosen last.

Really didn't like math, since most of the time it was new math being taught, as in not doing examples beforehand /facepalm.

Hated bullies, but thankfully it wasn't too bad in high school. The worst of it was in elementary and a bit into middle school. But to be honest, people could be real pieces of work.

Had a pair of teachers and a principal who shouldn't have had their jobs. They bullied students and what not.

 

[Auraninja]

Hated group assignments, since it was often a popularity contest and I was usually chosen last.

My mom took a college class on Spanish, and she was in a group assignment where one person didn't know what they were doing, and it dragged everyone else down.

Hated bullies, but thankfully it wasn't too bad in high school. The worst of it was in elementary and a bit into middle school. But to be honest, people could be real pieces of work.

It was the worst for me in high school. Many of the kids back then felt satisfied when they made my life miserable.

 

[WishIhadaManafi5]

My mom took a college class on Spanish, and she was in a group assignment where one person didn't know what they were doing, and it dragged everyone else down.


It was the worst for me in high school. Many of the kids back then felt satisfied when they made my life miserable.

Ah. I was in groups where people were lazy more than once, so can relate on the drag down part. Ended up having to carry more of the projects and it got old fast.

That sucks. Some people can be so cruel, can't they?

 

[Reinhardt]

I was pretty much the class punching bag at school. The first secondary school (the UK's answer to middle school in the US) I went to had little to no experience with autistic children, I was bullied relentlessly, but the teachers didn't do a huge amount about it. I never really got the autism support I needed because none of the teachers had the necessary training, so I struggled a lot. I was eventually moved to a different school with a better track record for autistic children, but because I was a bit higher up on the spectrum than the school's other autistic kids I never really enjoyed classes with them, so I often tried to socialize with the kids who didn't have autism and....it went about as well as you'd expect. More bullying, more mockery, and eventually I developed a reputation as "the weird kid".

 

[Weavy]

I hated school in general. Despite the fact I was very well behaved for the most part, I was still a very easy target for bullying. I'm autistic, which pretty much automatically made me vulnerable to bad people, but I was also mocked for being a girl who's interests weren't really things most other girls around me were into, so I was often called weird. This constant bullying lead me to thinking no one liked autistic people, which left me really upset as I just wanted to be accepted for who I was, which was very difficult in the school setting. For this reason, I always tried to avoid group work, mostly because I was scared of everyone around me, and knowing they wouldn't want to work with someone like me.

I don't like thinking about school, since I was treated so badly. College was a bit better, since I wasn't bullied as much, but it was still a difficult time.

 

[TornadoAdvisory]

Seeing as it's been mentioned a couple times already, I was never fond of group work either. Unlike the other problem I'll mention later, it persisted even into college as I once ended up in a math class where you would be in 3-4 different groups the whole semester. Yeah, it sucked.

It was extra difficult for me due to being very out-spoken and socially backwards, not really wanting to say anything unless I was 99.9% sure what I was saying was right to avoid misleading the group. To be frank, I don't recall being in very many groups where everyone was on the same page.

Another thing I wasn't fond of from about middle school to high school was all the cliques. You know, the 'jocks', 'nerds', 'preps', all that fun stuff. Because of my then very bad social awkwardness and passiveness, I was shoved around quite a bit (this got a bit better in high school though), and you'd constantly hear about all those great endeavors those 'jocks' and 'preps' were doing even if they were personally nasty to you regardless. Of course, not all of them were like that though. Thankfully, this stuff mostly faded away for me when I entered college, seeing how it's a much bigger playing field for everyone.

 

[raichu27]

The homework and being bullied is all I can think of for now.

 

[Auraninja]

Seems like the autism part resonated with many people here.

While I'm at it, the one college one was before I really settled in to a good college path, I was in a dorm because my step-mother didn't want me to live in the house.

Funny thing about that dorm, I googled it, and I found a Reddit post saying that it was a bad fraternity dorm. Man, if Reddit finds it bad...

 

[Kutie Pie]

That it was eight hours too long.

Speaking off, they would hate me because I believed in evolution, sympathize with the LGBTQ, and since I was autistic, they would hate my unusual behaviors.

School even well into the '90s to early-2000s were harder on special needs kids. No one knew how to properly handle and teach kids with autism and other disorders because regular teachers aren't trained for that and their manuals don't tell them anything on how to approach teaching differently for some kids. This is why the special-ed classes tended to be "out of sight, out of mind" classrooms once they became more commonplace (I didn't start hearing about special-ed until around middle school, my elementary school didn't have that so some classrooms had autistic and other disabled children with everyone else and we all just had to make do with it). We and everyone else in our age group got out of high school by the time they started taking more proper measures, but public schools and such (thanks to poor funding) don't really take up on those offers, least not as fast and proficient as they should.

 

[Dragalge]

I had fun in school for the most part tbh.

I just hated some bad fruit mostly!

 

[Auraninja]

It takes a lot of faith to believe in evolution.

No, it doesn't.

Do you know of any transitional species? Like a half dog half horse?

That's not how it works.

You probably think life started in the ocean too. Did fish mate outside of water while they were gasping for air and somehow their offspring magically grew lungs?

Evolution is gradual.

When you look at a building, how do you know there was a builder? Take a look around at the sky, trees, mountains, stars; when I see these things I know that there is a creator.

Evolution does not deny the existance of a god. Maybe God is the world's best geneticist.

Why do humans and apes both have oppose-able thumbs? When you drive down a street and see a string of house that look identical, it’s because the same architect designed them.

Opposeaple thumbs was an evolutionary trait from a common ancestor.

And homosexuality is a sin, but we are all sinners.

Stop.

We all need to repent and have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. God bless.

This has nothing to do with, never mind.

 

[Dragalge]

It takes a lot of faith to believe in evolution. Do you know of any transitional species? Like a half dog half horse? You probably think life started in the ocean too. Did fish mate outside of water while they were gasping for air and somehow their offspring magically grew lungs? When you look at a building, how do you know there was a builder? Take a look around at the sky, trees, mountains, stars; when I see these things I know that there is a creator. Why do humans and apes both have oppose-able thumbs? When you drive down a street and see a string of house that look identical, it’s because the same architect designed them. And homosexuality is a sin, but we are all sinners. We all need to repent and have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. God bless.

 

[U.N. Owen]

I am a college professor. One of the problems I see in those stupid, stupid classes I am forced to teach.

The problem I have seen with my students is how their lives are basically determined for them. When they get to college, they utterly fail at my class. I'm not even going over complex stuff like the human body. I'm doing basic cells, DNA/RNA, virology (how appropriate was it that was the chapter we got cut off at due to this virus), and things of that nature. The problem I have consistently seen among students is that they have no power, no voice in their own lives. You are dictated by the bell. It's better to learn about how to manage your time and energy earlier than when you are forced to do it when the government does not cover everything.

I also scratch my head and wonder what exactly do you people learn in classes? It seems like your English classes are dedicated to memorizing the plots of books. While my colleagues in the school of arts have very different classes from the Marxist reading of a work to cultural context.

I hate standardize tests, and I think they are a waste of both the student's and the teacher's time. Imagine being in an advanced class, just to dumb it down for the test.

Trust us, we professors in higher education hate standardized tests as well. At least when we give you one, it's made by people who actually teach it and not Pearson. I can't give you proof of God, but I can definitely give you proof of demons.

It takes a lot of faith to believe in evolution. Do you know of any transitional species? Like a half dog half horse? You probably think life started in the ocean too. Did fish mate outside of water while they were gasping for air and somehow their offspring magically grew lungs? When you look at a building, how do you know there was a builder? Take a look around at the sky, trees, mountains, stars; when I see these things I know that there is a creator. Why do humans and apes both have oppose-able thumbs? When you drive down a street and see a string of house that look identical, it’s because the same architect designed them. And homosexuality is a sin, but we are all sinners. We all need to repent and have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. God bless.

You somehow managed to offend my catholicism and my life choices teaching biology to people like you. Congratulations.

My school allowed my classmates to bully me.

I was consistently teased, but it was never to the point of 'I seriously do not want to go to school/hate my life'.

I hated school generally, mostly probably because of getting bullied.

Hated bullies, but thankfully it wasn't too bad in high school. The worst of it was in elementary and a bit into middle school. But to be honest, people could be real pieces of work.

It was the worst for me in high school. Many of the kids back then felt satisfied when they made my life miserable.

The first secondary school (the UK's answer to middle school in the US) I went to had little to no experience with autistic children, I was bullied relentlessly, but the teachers didn't do a huge amount about it.

I was still a very easy target for bullying.

The homework and being bullied is all I can think of for now.

School bullying in the West was actually a problem my parents and grandparents couldn't believe when they got to this country. Back in China, your teacher telling your parents that you were bullying other children could actually get you killed by your parents for dishonoring the family.

I'm lucky I never had a bully I couldn't put in the hospital.

 

[Kutie Pie]

It takes a lot of faith to believe in evolution. Do you know of any transitional species? Like a half dog half horse? You probably think life started in the ocean too. Did fish mate outside of water while they were gasping for air and somehow their offspring magically grew lungs? When you look at a building, how do you know there was a builder? Take a look around at the sky, trees, mountains, stars; when I see these things I know that there is a creator. Why do humans and apes both have oppose-able thumbs? When you drive down a street and see a string of house that look identical, it’s because the same architect designed them. And homosexuality is a sin, but we are all sinners. We all need to repent and have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. God bless.

I'm religious and I think I had a stroke reading this, like bruh, what's this got to do with school?

Does it take faith to believe in your vital organs despite never seeing them with your own eyes without special tools that could literally burn your eyes out of your sockets without protection? (God cannot be seen with mortal eyes or else your skin will just melt off, basically.) Natural selection is evolution because your children genetically adapted to new environments through "switches" in the genetic code that got flipped. That's how God cursed the serpent to lose its legs, we have fossilized proof there were legs at one point and it's still present in their pelvic bone. If that's not enough, it literally takes generations to make species break off into multiple subspecies on the evolution branch based on the environment they live in; there's evidence of species of Old World and New World monkeys being genetically related because South America and Africa were together at one point, and when the plates split, it split up the family tree with it and some monkeys may have island hopped as well. Mother Nature allows for this to happen, and if a species doesn't adapt, it dies out. The dinosaurs died out because they couldn't handle the sudden change going through the earth's climate at the time (however it happened, meteor strikes wiping out plant life or sulfur in the atmosphere getting too thick or being thinned out, whatever it was that affected their food supply). Simple as that.

And it's not just homosexuality, all immoral sexual acts are a sin regardless of sexuality, but God's not going to demand you to be stoned to death if you happen to think another man is hot.

Believe in God in that He is Creator of all that has walked, is walking, and will walk on the earth, He's a literal scientist after all, but at least pretend you're trying to sound smart, dude.

I love this pterosaur. Actually the Phoenix Zoo had/has(?) an exhibit about dinosaurs and they had animatronics (probably life-sized? Least for some of them?) that were really cool, and one of them was the Quetzalcoatlus. It was awesome, it could've easily swallowed me whole if it was the real thing.

I am a college professor. One of the problems I see in those stupid, stupid classes I am forced to teach.

The problem I have seen with my students is how their lives are basically determined for them. When they get to college, they utterly fail at my class. I'm not even going over complex stuff like the human body. I'm doing basic cells, DNA/RNA, virology (how appropriate was it that was the chapter we got cut off at due to this virus), and things of that nature. The problem I have consistently seen among students is that they have no power, no voice in their own lives. You are dictated by the bell. It's better to learn about how to manage your time and energy earlier than when you are forced to do it when the government does not cover everything.

Okay I think it's awesome this is the field of work you're in, but that is fascinating that students are failing because they're just that robotic in nature, having been trained by the bell to know when to learn and when to stop learning. Maybe "fascinating" should actually be "terrifying" since they're acting like worker drones, I dunno, I got distracted that you're teaching science (basic, it sounds like, but science regardless) and I just wanna use a microscope again, haven't used one in years. Hnnnngh.

I'm lucky I never had a bully I couldn't put in the hospital.

There's either a really cool story to that and you must tell us, or you're secretly Dr. Robotnik.