Did you like or hate school?

[Tentpants]

I hated school for a bunch of reasons. One of them was my name... I was self-conscious about it because my first and last names rhymed in a sort of sing-song kind of way. Teachers would call my name and I was convinced everyone was laughing at me because of my name! It held me back socially for years and still does to some extent.

 

[me203]

I think school is just a place to babysit kids.

I had a teacher who actually told me "high school is just a place to keep people for four years until society is ready for them!"

I think school would have been more beneficial if it taught you about life. For example, how to endorse a check. How to make a budget.

Check? What's a check?

A high school in my area is planning to require a life skills class that will touch on basic finances. Probably not a bad idea. But the problem is--my understanding is that it seems like they keep adding more and more requirements, and I never hear of any requirements that get reduced.

 

[USEDCAR]

I hated elementary school. I loved middle and high school had great teachers and i was kinda the school pet i got along with administration and lunch ladies they used to cook me personal meals or gave me extra food. I used to sit in the cafeteria with the jocks and preps. There was some assholes but i handled them. I remember how exciting it was being 17 and getting my drivers license the feeling. I regret not going to college straight after high school.


Dealt with a lot of curious guys and the butt touching era.

 

[me203]

Add me to the "hated school" list... A lot of classes were something to survive. And I tended to be unpopular and an outsider, so I didn't have the social life other kids had. (I had zero invitations for anything during my four years of hell high school. Oh, well--no parties or just a "why don't you come over and hang out after school?" invitation meant I had plenty of time to do homework that wasn't particularly enjoyable for classes that I didn't particularly like.)

Although, being fair, some years were better than others. And some classes were definitely better than others.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Both.

 

[PrinceCory]

I hated school. I was teased daily.

I didn't like High School but I never even considered quitting. I was teased because I was the overweight kid. There was were two larger kids in my class grade of about 100 kids. I can't say I had any good friends in my class. Just a handful of other non-popular kids. I only "hung-out" with 1 guy a little during high school. I worked all during high school year around. So I always had money and my own car to drive since the age of 14 (legal age to drive to school and work back then). But having a car and pocket money didn't get me any friends.

I wasn't a good student but I figured out how to "work the system" by choosing classes that were easy to pass and somehow (even though those selected classes were pass/fail) they counted as an "A" if you passed. I also asked to do extra class work for extra credit to pull my grades up from a C or D to and A or B. That pulled my average grade way up and I was on the honor roll 3 times in a couple of years.

Back then I never really considered myself bullied. Just teased with name calling (do to my weight). Only one student would actually grab me (usually from behind) and put me in a bear hug. He never hurt me that I can remember. It only stopped when one time while in a hug I dug my fingernails into his arm and hands as hard as I could and I drew blood. I learned that trick from my sisters who had long sharpened "pretty" nails.

 

[piano1]

Loved 11th grade. Got out of school early. Also loved gym class because of the showers and I was able to see one of the football players naked. He was in my shop class and had black hair. Wonder what he looks like now 40 years later??

 

[me203]

Also loved gym class because of the showers

Seeing locker room nudity was about the only good part of PE.

He was in my shop class and had black hair. Wonder what he looks like now 40 years later??

The answer might be something you want...

I'm not at 40 years since high school...but it's sort of depressing how hot guys then aren't in the least bit hot now, thanks to the effects of life and aging over 30 years...

One of the football players in my class, in fact, was good looking then. I think I'd probably enjoyed seeing him nude in the PE locker room. But his personality tended to repel me. From a photo taken 10 years ago, it looks like time has taken a toll. He's not a worn out wreck, but he's not someone I'd look at twice if I saw him in the grocery store. And from what I saw him say on social media, I have to wonder I'd find him any more charming than I did in 8th grade...

 

[belamyi]

LuRved school, high school was more moronic with all those wannabe adult little people, and the confusion of the transitioning and dealing with what you liked, what you were supposed to study... and your not fitting into any life and study template