what were your school days like?

[anthony]

I'd like to know about everyone's school days. What were your experiences?

For me..i always felt odd, out of place, weird, even as an elementary school student. I started to skip alot in HS becuz 1.) i had major "social anxiety" and 2.) i felt the traditional schooling system was a complete fucking joke. I knew, even back then, that it didnt really educate ppl as much as it conditioned them to be a certain way. When i did go to schoool, id usually skip lunch cuz i had no one to set with. Didnt wanna be setting in my huge ass cafeteria alone. Hmm..no friends hardly ever..certainly no true friends. I failed badly in my academics in HS becuz 1.) i was simply incredibly bored with them, and the way there were presented, and i never did homework and 2.) i was either not in class or when those big ass oral projects came up that were like a big percentage of ur final grade..id not do them cuz i had..ding ding ding..social anxiety, if u wanna call it that. so..naturally..i got shittty shitty grades in most classes. Funny thing is..i took a test one time, 9th grade, i was 14, and i scored as junior in college in the subject of reading comprehension. thought that was funny. but anyways, i ended up dropping out of hs for good in 03 i think..was supposed to graduate in 02. i got my ged in 04 and becuz i apparently did so well, i was given a scholarship, albeit a small one, to a local 2 yr college. I took it and I went. at first, it was great. i was so happy to be in a less structured schooling environment that colleges can sometimes offer. it felt so much more free than k-12 schooling. It was more intellectual and less system oriented structure. well..i made the deans list my first semester . but..unfortuneatly..and im not 100% why, even today, i grew bored with college after a few months and would only attend philosophy and political science out of amy 6 classes. I just couldnt make myself do the required work. I was and am certainly "smart" ( i hate that word, dont u? such a square term) enough to, but i just couldnt make myself do it. its lik emy mind was just floating around and would not allow me to set down and write that english composition essay or study for child psych. u know? so i dropped out at the end of 05. i do plan to go back, eventually, but this time things will be diff. maybe i wasnt ready, for whatever reason. idk. but this time..i wont be majoring in philosophy like last time..but rather some form of art. but anyways, tell us about your school experiences?

[shadowsong]

my school days consisted mostly of being invisable.
Oh for a while I used to hang out with the two ladies that supervised us at recess because noone would play with me, and I got along better with older people then I did with those my own age, after a while though that got people concerned and they made me join this group of kids for kids that had trouble makeing friends, it didn't work, cause although I made one friend among them she moved away shortly after that.
Every time I seemed to get remotely close to anyone they ended up moveing away to another state and I always lost contact so they might as well have gone to another world. This sort of made me become rather detached to people I am afraid.
I remeber many a lunch sitting alone and watching everyone else eat and feeling so strange being invisable to them all. I remeber many times sitting alone on the bus stareing out the window wondering if somehow aliens had implanted me- an alien baby- into my mothers womb, or if I was switched at birth with "something" else. Somtimes I even remeber sitting on the swing set and pertending I was a non-human sceintist sent to study the behavior of human children, because the other children just seemed like a completely different species from myself.
At times it made me quite miserable, and at other times I was fine with it. After some time I became quite content to sit in my invisable corner and read or draw, after a while I learned to bring a book with me to lunch, so I could read since I had noone to talk to. I was only ever noticed occasionaly by other students who were curious or brave, and somtimes attracted by my artistic abilities. Somtimes I don't think the teachers even recognised my existance, except if they felt I needed disipline, which was usally a joke! I was rather timid and introverted I didn't act out much, although I do remeber getting in trouble a few times and it was always for the stupidest things, like once I got in trouble for running from the sidewalk to the bus! Think about it! A kid getting in trouble for running! when they are outside non the less!! Ha!
I always got fairly good grades, but I think that was out of fear and pressure. My brother was awful in school and it always gave my parents so much greif, so I felt obligated to do well, but I never enjoyed it unless it concerned somthing I was interested in learning (which mostly involved art and occasionaly english).
my mom was always great, she always read to me at night when I was young, and would play out my imaginary stories with me, at least for some time; Although I must say I also learned to be very good at playing by myself

[Fragments]

My school experiences...hmmm...

I've been to so many schools over the course of my life, moved to so many different cities and homes...I never really got established in any given school for longer than a year or two.

I never liked it, this grew worse with age. I always doodled on the desks, couldn't sit still, and generally wasn't (usually) interested in the subject being taught.

By the time I was 11 or 12 I was home schooled for two years. I liked the independence, especially the ability to sleep in a more natural cycle as opposed to waking painfully in the dark (Ironic how growing kids wake up earlier than most adults ).

I am now a sophmore in high school. Adjusting to the high school envirement as a sophmore in a new state with no friends was tough. For about three months at the start of the year I sat alone at the lunch table and was a very unhappy person to say the least. Doing better now though, I just tend to take longer to meet people due to my introverted nature.

My favorate classes so far are Biology (which seems to come natural to me) and Art1. The rest are still fairly boring, but I try a bit harder than I used to.

[Karshinjutsu]

Well,my earlier days in elementary school were great.I was THE genius.Now in middle school I'v been getting truely ill because I feel like I'm doing nothing but wasting my time sitting in such a horribly sterile invironment.I've also missed lots of school.Months out of one school year.

[grandpa]

School for me was like prison from day one, when I left school it was the happiest day of my life. Ironic that I ended up working in schools.

[Carnage]

School for me was like prison from day one, when I left school it was the happiest day of my life. Ironic that I ended up working in schools.

Heh i feel same way, the worst thing is...

i went on a univercity sumemr skool for a week last week to get a taster of what uni life was, we basically livedl ife students drank like students and jus were students at uni for the week.......i can say that is the best.....f***ing week of my life... it gave me a taste of how much skool is full of backstabbers and false people....we all were genuinly nice no one was fake and we all got alone and there was people from all different backgrounds chavs goths emos jocks etc..... and we all got on....as equals....something u struggle to get at skool...only one more dam year of six form left.....and i will hate every minute till i leave to go to uni!....

My rant...

[INFPgirl]

I'd like to know about everyone's school days. What were your experiences?

For me..i always felt odd, out of place, weird, even as an elementary school student. I started to skip alot in HS becuz 1.) i had major "social anxiety" and 2.) i felt the traditional schooling system was a complete fucking joke. I knew, even back then, that it didnt really educate ppl as much as it conditioned them to be a certain way. When i did go to schoool, id usually skip lunch cuz i had no one to set with. Didnt wanna be setting in my huge ass cafeteria alone. Hmm..no friends hardly ever..certainly no true friends. I failed badly in my academics in HS becuz 1.) i was simply incredibly bored with them, and the way there were presented, and i never did homework and 2.) i was either not in class or when those big ass oral projects came up that were like a big percentage of ur final grade..id not do them cuz i had..ding ding ding..social anxiety, if u wanna call it that. so..naturally..i got shittty shitty grades in most classes. Funny thing is..i took a test one time, 9th grade, i was 14, and i scored as junior in college in the subject of reading comprehension. thought that was funny. but anyways, i ended up dropping out of hs for good in 03 i think..was supposed to graduate in 02. i got my ged in 04 and becuz i apparently did so well, i was given a scholarship, albeit a small one, to a local 2 yr college. I took it and I went. at first, it was great. i was so happy to be in a less structured schooling environment that colleges can sometimes offer. it felt so much more free than k-12 schooling. It was more intellectual and less system oriented structure. well..i made the deans list my first semester . but..unfortuneatly..and im not 100% why, even today, i grew bored with college after a few months and would only attend philosophy and political science out of amy 6 classes. I just couldnt make myself do the required work. I was and am certainly "smart" ( i hate that word, dont u? such a square term) enough to, but i just couldnt make myself do it. its lik emy mind was just floating around and would not allow me to set down and write that english composition essay or study for child psych. u know? so i dropped out at the end of 05. i do plan to go back, eventually, but this time things will be diff. maybe i wasnt ready, for whatever reason. idk. but this time..i wont be majoring in philosophy like last time..but rather some form of art. but anyways, tell us about your school experiences?

In high school I was invisible, depressed, shy and quiet. I HATED school with all my heart! I HATED the fact that I had to do pointless homework, listen to those idiots tell me what to do! I refused to waste my energy focusing on the shit they were teaching me.... it bored the hell out of me and I got poor grades. School was hell.
During school I was outwardly compliant with the teachers while inside I was raging with anger at every word that came out of their mouth! I never listened to anything authorities told me and I acted completely apathetic.. when really I wanted to burst out into tears all the time, even the littlest things would affect me in the biggest way, I was sooo incredibly sensitive and no one knew it because I hid it so well. A lot of times I would go into the bathroom and just cry in secret.

I remember once while standing in the hall between class, I just randomly burst into hysterical tears, I was crying so hard I could barely breathe or stand, you would of thought my parents died....I didn't even care that everyone was looking at me, and when my friends asked what was wrong I told them I was just overwhelmed with everything, they insisted that it was something else...they couldn't believe I could be crying 'just because'... they couldn't believe anyone could be that sensitive..so I lied that my parents were getting divorced, so they wouldnt think I was weird.

8th grade was the hardest year of my life. I would come home from school and throw tantrums that were out of this world! I'd swear at my parents, hit them, break things, pull out my hair, hit my head against the wall, dig through my skin with my nails, punch walls, scream at the top of my lungs, I ran away numerous times, I slit my wrists.. the scary part is I was so invisible no one noticed the scars. Im crying now just remembeing how hard that was... I wanted to leave my body, and I might of actually killed myself if my parents didn't love me so much.
Not to mention I felt stupid because I was in the 'special Ed' department and I would have sex with any guy that made the moves on me. I wore loads of makeup, dressed goth, drank loads of alcohol and was definitely a loner.

Eventually I was put on Adderol, antidepressants and sleeping pills which numbed me out and made me like a zombie, and I was sent away to a special school for A.D.D people, which I actually liked because I didn't have to do as much homework there, lol! Anyway to say the least.. school was not the happiest of experience for me... lol!

Elementary school was easy and I got good grades, but I suffered from extreme shyness! I was certainly more fearless at that age, plenty of teachers told me parents to look out for me because I had "no fear". My parents had a house on a cliff overlooking the beach and I would go on these climbing adventures If my parents were aware of all the dangerous places I would go, they would have never let me out of the house again, lol!

[starseed]

Terrible.

I don't even want to elaborate on that.

Just.. terrible.

If I were ever to get sent to hell, it would be reliving school over and over.

[fred aus indo]

waww... sure is terrible....
well i was kind of normal... i don't care about subjects or traditional way of teaching whatever...i was academically good.. although between elementry and high school i kind of dropped a little...cos' i just move to australia...anywho.... now it's good again...

at first i thought school's gonna be fun...but it turns out to be boring... i've got no friends... i do but 1-2 throughout the entire school life till now...i was kind of selfish... arrogant.. deuschebag...excluding myself... too honest...

but teachers love me... although when i was in grade1-3 i've been lots of fight... even teachers are scared of me... and i went to austim teraphy thingy cos' they thought i had an imbalanced brained... too hyperactive....and now... where is the proof...?? when i did the test... i was both balanced left and right brained.. since on one test i was left brainer and the other one right brainer....

[Amethyst]

Bullied the whole time, some of the worst days of my life, had to leave when I was 13.

Missed out on a hell of a lot in my teen years because of all of that bullying and isolation. And also, this led to other problems, such as agoraphobia for a few years.

So glad that it is all behind me, but truth be, it still effects me in some ways.

[Onlooker]

My schooldays were good really, until I was 14 I enjoyed lessons as I was good at most of them & learned fast. I was never short of friends but got bored easily if my mind wasn't stimulated enough so I was always joking around.
Then at 14 I decided school wasn't teaching me what I needed to know & I started missing it to either just hang out or spend days in the library reading about philosophy, religion and 'the occult' as spiritual themes were called then! I don't regret a minute of learning, or of choosing to learn my own subjects.
I didn't go to my 20yr school reunion

[sshenry]

Long, boring, and fraught with fractions

[Onlooker]

LOL! ..and fractious factions?

[sshenry]

LOL! ..and fractious factions?

most definitely

[jvm222]

I stopped going to school after a traumatic experience when i was 12. I tried to integrate myself back in but i would never stay to complete anything. Honestly it's strange how i'm more advanced than the people who stayed in school and went to college. Just goes to show you what type of 'education' you learn there. Wouldn't have it any other way either.

[cjmax02]

At school, when I started to 'grow up' and be less blue monkey and more me (diving headfirst into the occult at about 12), I was totally ostracized. I eventually found a bunch of people who were 'weird' like me (in their own beautiful and diverse ways)...I don't miss the dramas and all of that, but I miss the companionship and exuberance we always had. I do sorta understand what they meant by 'the best days of your life'...something about being a teenager makes everything you feel..'more', like you loved and lost harder, ups were real highs and downs were major angst. I miss that.

I liked some of my teachers an' lessons an' the library an' stuff too. But not maths.