Shit You Hated/Hate About School - "Partner Up With Someone You Hate!" Edition - General

• A lot of people tell me how fun kindergarten was for them. For me it was hell within hell, because the teacher I had was fucking bitter. She forced me to read to the class constantly because apparently my reading was "more advanced" than the other kids? Also, if my work looked really good, she would (for no reason) force me to "dumb it down" and lower the quality so it matched the other kids'. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Satan. • Lazy kids wanting to partner up with you after you already did all your work so they can mooch a good grade off of you. • Everyone partnering up with the cute girls, but me always getting stuck with the village idiot of the class who fell asleep all the god damn time. • When you break your pencil, ask for another one, only to get another broken pencil. I wouldn't go to the hospital to fix a bullet wound, and ask for a new bullet wound after the first one was fixed. • Middle school was the worst worst worst worst worst time of my life. The school I went to was super wiggery and every kid was super toxic. Every kid woke up in the morning telling themselves "Hmm, I need to make a lot of enemies today." There was no such thing as common sense in a place like that. • High school was a bit better, but I went to a mega-suburbanite Disney Channel school where, if you weren't good-looking, your existence meant nothing. • As I stated in the WAYT thread, my elementary school had old vulture she-devil lunch monitors that would use any excuse to yell at you or give you detention for virtually nothing. I once got written up for saying "jesus christ!" out loud. Sure, why not? Okay, your turn.

The bullying. Got replaced in high school with just general loneliness, which was somewhat of an improvement.

next year, my last year, we're being forced to wear clear backpacks i love "solutions" to problems that don't solve anything!

Teachers with shitty lives making sure your life is also shitty when you're in the same room with them.

Getting kicked and beaten because of your disability The constant noise Work that makes no sense in teaching kids, while there are way better alternatives that could be useful in their lives History: Just teach 10% of WW2, and something basic about ideology, done Educating about the nation's current ideology more than other ideologies Teachers that couldn't criticize sources (we had only one lesson for critical thinking...) More beating I was so happy when I got my job with so many wonderful people, and a boss I had so much respect for. I still ask myself "What did I spend all these years for?" when it comes to highschool. I had to constantly ask my teachers to do personalized assignments of my choosing (when I could), so I'd bloody learn something. And those courses that actually did learn useful stuff may have been the most difficult for me, but I sured loved it anyway. 80-90% of all assignments were "What is X" and not "What is X, and is there pros and cons and other options?". it all became so linear when I switched school during highscool. The previous schools did way better in some aspects.

Put all the exams on the same week.

"Ok kids we're gonna grade each other's papers!" Better cross my fingers and hope a kid that doesn't like me doesn't get my paper and give me constant 0's. Oh wait, that already happened. A girl in middle school showered me with 0%'s for the sake of being a hypercunt. If my hand wasn't up but you see me paying attention, don't call on me. Other people could say "no clue" as an answer and get off for free, but if I try to answer but get it wrong, teachers jump down my throat and pointlessly embarrass me because... anger, I guess? Was one kid being an obnoxious clown? Better punish the whole class just for that one idiot then! Every crush liking someone else for ALL of the wrong reasons. Did a teacher lose your test? Guess you failed then. Every computer-related teacher being computer illiterate. For that I can just teach myself. Oh wait, I did. Every time. Everyone getting grouped with their friends, but you and only you getting grouped with like 4 kids you hate. Thanks for that. Teachers singling someone out and digging into them for way too long. You made your point, you're gonna open a door for people to pick on that kid if you do that shit for too long and too many times. Getting in trouble for someone else because you were never given the opportunity to defend yourself. "You can't use the bathroom because I said so!" That didn't stop you letting another kid take a piss 2 minutes ago. Guess I'm holding on to my dump for another hour or so because teacher's in a bad mood. =/ Why is walking in a hallway so hard for people? No need to raise your voice Mrs. Loudlungs, I don't need unnecessary attention on me because you're pointlessly shouting over a harmless, menial thing. Christ, I could list shit forever.

My school had, and presumably still has, peacocks. They're assholes. Also there were two bathrooms, both of which were locked during class, most of the time they wouldn't be unlocked for the breaks either.

i always despised the "one size fits all" crap, schools just assuming i can learn shit from their standardized lesson plans only to just be mostly self taught anyway. special ed classes, to a point. with my total lack of motivation at times the school just took it like i was retarded or something and either forced me to read or put me in special ed stuff to see if i could read the worst part is i consistantly scored amongst the highest in the class for reading comprehension but the school just wasnt having it. the guided reading stuff was awful, too, you'd go to a small room everyday for about an hour to read children's books at a snail's pace. i guess not reading everyday is a crime or something. also history classes, particular the people i had these history classes with the classmates i had during our history courses did so absolutely poorly that at one point the teacher had me put against everybody in a jeopardy esque game meant for studying i consider myself fairly good at history, not sure about being a history buff but still, so i thought me against like 30 kids wasn't going to work. no, not at all, i was totally wrong, so wrong it hurts, honestly. i beat them by a landslide, almost no contest, they answered very few if any questions correctly. the teacher promptly stood up, told the class they didnt deserve any bonus points if they weren't going to at least try to pass, and then gave me the bonus points. and there's a ton more shit i couldn't possibly fit in one post.

Everything. Got placed in special-ed quite early on so, along with any bullying associated with it, that ordeal killed any social life I could've had, as even the person who was in the special-ed with me for a bit and got somewhat friendly with would eventually just ignore and detest me when he transferred out of it. My sister would also not give me mind and outright shun me because I was "weird an annoying". Had a really hard time learning anything because my reading comprehension wasn't all that great, and having the need of someone explaining a concept to me several times often would wear teachers/assistants out so that they would just have me skip thing which were difficult for me. This then led me to just not being able to ask for help from anyone and attempt to solve a problem until I get burnt out. A habit I still struggle with but wish to abandon. Due to having trouble learning things and sometimes any help was omitted, I got a below average grade from my compulsory education, which in turn didn't let me get to any of the schools I applied to after finishing my compulsory period(I remember trying to get in to this one school 3 times, rejected each time). There's a whole, longer story in play but the only reason I got to the school from which I recently graduated from was through absolute, sheer, luck. And having the head principal pull some strings as the school I was in previously was ending its curriculum completely, and any remaining students who had studies left were sort of just left on their own. I had even applied to this current one I graduated from the normal way, but it turned out that they didn't even consider me when my application was received. The main professor of our courses didn't like me for some reason. He has a reputation of being extremely critical and direct about it, but during my last semester, he talked with my assigned group and asked "Why the hell did you let him do any of this" School was just a crushing experience for me, and anyone who'll tell me "you're going to miss your school days when you get a job" should stub their toe.

The person who taught me Physics at A-level during Sixth Form was a bumbling idiot with two years of teaching experience, someone who wasn't even ten years my senior at the time This guy couldn't control the class, couldn't stay on topic, couldn't teach core concepts to save his life, and on occasion just got core concepts completely wrong, such that I'm not kidding when I say he would sometimes have to start a lesson by explaining how he was wrong in the last one when people went to him in confusion All of that might have been more forgivable if he hadn't also had the great idea to inflate everyone's grades in the mid-year mock exam during AS, leading everyone to get exaggerated grades. I got a B in the mock exam, but I only got a C and a D in the final exams. This completely warped mine and everyone else's perceptions of how well we were doing. In the end I started second year with only two other people left from my first year class of 11~ people, faced with the prospect of having to resit first year exams while also completely abandoning my dream of getting into Physics academia. I am still depressed because of it.

This thread is pretty depressing, we need more money for schools. It wouldn't solve everything but it would probably help a lot of things. There was one time in elementary school when the principal yelled at me until I cried because I missed the bus home. It took me a while to realize how bizarre that was. Minimum lengths for essays and things suck, especially for literature classes. With history you can give more details about things that are barely relevant, but with literature all you have is the text. God help you if it's a poem. I still feel like a lot of how I struggled in school was my own fault, but I wonder how much of that was due to my depression, and if I would have been helped if teachers had noticed and tried to do something. I just remembered that I wrote that I wanted to die on one of my test papers. I think my teacher asked me about it, but nothing happened. Seriously, school was way more stressful than work for me, and I had a relatively easy time at school.

People who seat in YOUR unassigned seat.

myself

In elementary school a kid threw a hardcover text book at me. The edge split my forehead open. In junior high I got punched in the side of the head by some older boys as I was leaving class. Short term was a nasty glob of ear wax and blood coming out of my ear a few days later. Long term is I can't hear as good with my right ear. In high school I was tripped during a game of hockey and as a result hit the back of my head on a metal water fountain. Or to sum it up, the worst part was how I sustained a head injury through out my school "career".

Not technically a school; I do postgrad these days, but: I study at my old uni’s main library (my postgrad isn’t with the university but fuck it, I’m alumni so why not) because I don’t have the self-discipline to study at home without distraction. However every time I go to the library, even if I study in a quiet area supposedly being run under exam conditions, every fucker is making a racket. In the past four days alone I’ve witnessed two people literally singing, others eating crunchy food with their mouths open, and groups having loud conversation in a study area in a library. I hate people.

I used to have panic attacks and hide in the stairwells and just be incapable of breathing and now that I'm out I want to strangle the people that say it's 'the best time of your life' twice as much

I hated that english was a manditory senior subject. I could have taken a class i was interested in instead of learning more about poems, books and films. A waste of 2 years really, havent needed anything ive learnt from senior English other than the rare trivial facts.

-Any teacher that punish the whole class because someone was noisy when the teacher told us to be quiet. -The IT guy that install an "anti-youtube" plugin on the school network, including for the teacher. -Whoever that break the urinal tubes. -Getting harrased and bullied by those "Anti bully".

How the system doesn't care about the actual students at all.

I was bullied in a multitude of ways. Sometimes it was physical, sometimes verbal. I remember in my early early years kids would steal my lunch food because my mom always gave me a huge lunch every day The fact that the teachers at my school did fuck all to alleviate the bullying still disgusts me to this very day

I hated having math teachers that would solve one or two problems on the board and expect you to just get it, and then give you a 50 problem packet to do for the rest of the class, all while not bothering to help explain to better to you when you ask for help. 2/3 of my years of math in highschool had a teacher like this, and I didn't learn hardly anything from it. Not everyone learns the same way and it's really a shame that schools can't afford to better teach individual students. Another thing was the constant bullying. Being overweight or remotely different in any way painted a target on your back in the school I went to. Luckily after middle school it eventually stopped, but during highschool what little friends I had drifted away and I was left with nothing towards the end. I've mostly forgotten about school at this point, and I have co workers that went to school with me bring up stuff from then occasionally, but I don't really dive too deep into conversation about it because while it was fine for them it was hell for others.

Being told I'm really smart every single day, and then amounting to nothing.

Wearing uniforms, especially when summer was getting close.

The bullying and certain teachers making life hellish. When I left Secondary school and went to college I remember having a realization of just how badly I was mistreated and outright abused in that school. There were certain students who were just unrelenting pricks at all times, non-stop, inside and outside of school. Doesn't do me much good to bring up those memories ,that was a hideously dark time in my life. A lot of unresolved wounds and slights but take it from someone whose older now. It won't do you good to hold onto those grudges. They'll rot you.

Being treated as the outcast for a long time, just because I was the quiet type. When all I really wanted were friends. "What a weirdo." "You know what they say about the quiet ones... " "Yeah, he's gonna friggin' come to school one day and like, fuckin' kill us all or something... " Oh, and having a teacher outright call you mentally retarded, because you were having issues understanding something in class. Said teacher also never really bothered to try and figure out why I was having those issues. Nope, I'm just retarded, I guess. Yeah, growing up with low self-esteem was a whole lotta fun. :| Having the kid behind you shaking your desk (intentionally or unintentionally) by resting their feet on that little metal basket beneath your seat. Being forced to take band and choir classes even when you had no interest whatsoever.

Honestly my high school was pretty OK overall, but I do have a few highlights. First was when I started high school I was placed into Special Learning Support (a separate part of the school where people with learning disabilities go) because I had an autism diagnosis (I don't actually have autism, long story but the person who tested me for it was eventually struck off the register for incorrect diagnosis). The school never told my parents that I was going to be placed in SLS and when they found out they told the school to place me in normal classes. They did do that but they also had a aide follow me around everywhere which did wonders for fitting in for the first year until my parents wrote to the school board. This did wonders for fitting in with my peers, as you can imagine. Otherwise school was OK apart from my French teacher, who was often teaching drunk and had the shortest fuse imaginable. He also absolutely hated my guts because my mother had a full-blown argument in public with him at parent's night; a highlight of this was when the class bully smacked me across the back of the head with those metal shop rulers and split my ear open. I turned around and told him to fuck off and was given detention for swearing while he got nothing for making me need stitches in my ear. Later the deputy head teacher decided to wipe my detention because he knew it was stupid and what the French teacher was like but that guy never got punished.

I hated when you told teachers about bullying happening and the only thing the bullies had to do was to say "sorry". Ye sure, like that gonna help. Another thing I hated was sportsclass. The teacher alway made us do the same things such as dodgeball, where the assholes of the class threw way too fucking hard, without the teacher stepping in "cuz that's the game". Or let us play baseball outside in summer when it was way too warm and humid to do so. I fainted even once because it was so damn warm. But what I hated the most was how bullying in the first year of high school changed me from being outgoing and popular in elementary school to a shy mess the following years in high school. Which I'm only now slowly growing out of about ten years later.

Molestation in lockerrooms. Teachers being absolute cunts for little to no reason, probably to vent their frustration in being in a dead-ass job. Bullying. etc.

tech-illiterate teachers who, despite having been around the equipment for at least a decade now (come the fuck on its 2018), still cant figure out how volume works come the fuck ON also, the fucking scams being pulled left and right with having to PAY for outsourced 'online access' bullshit. fuck OFF with that