Poll: Do you like school?

[Bernzz]

I act like I hate it, and sometimes I do, but I know when I leave High School I'll really fucking miss it. For the social aspect, of course. I have an awesome group of friends, each person having their own little oddities. I will miss high school when I'm gone.

But I'm in Year 11, and fuck do I hate my homework.

 

[Baby Tea]

School is fine so long as you remember what it's there for: Learning.
As a social framework, it's terrible. The idea of 'cool' changes on a whim and you spend too much time caring about what people are thinking of you, until you finally get out into the real world and realize that all those things you thought were important were not at all important. And you feel like a moron for caring so much about something so trivial.

The education part is great, though. Always good to learn.

If people annoy you, ignore them.
Just remember that the world is huge, and the chances of you having to deal with these people afterwards is very slim. So just shrug it off. Leave the insecure to be arrogant or mean or silly and just do the work. It makes post secondary education easier, and that makes life easier.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

No. I hated it and continue to hate it. I like the social aspect of it, but I hate the "teaching" aspect of it. I always wondered WHY do I need to know that much maths. WHY do I need to know that much literature, WHY do I need to know that much about biology. It just seems plain stupid that you are forced to memorize shit that won't help you has an adult.

Edit: I also COMPLETELY HATE the fact that you need to do homework. Isn't it enough that you got 5 books to memorize, now you need to spend the remaining 3 hours of your day REDOING WHAT YOU DID IN SCHOOL?!

I mean seriously, you do exercises in school, then when you get home you STUDY THE SAME THING AGAIN. Now you'd think that would be enough but NO! You also need to do shitload of homework.(Maybe I have such a bad look on homework because most of my teachers back in general school gave you ALOT of homework. Now combine that with the ammount of crap you had to memorize for the next day that kids eventualy had enough.)

The 7th grade was like that. Most of the class simply STOPPED bothering with studying and doing homework. Teachers mocked us about how we are the worst class in the school and how we've been "free falling" since the 6th grade and that we should stop. They even asked us to make suggestions. But did the teachers ever listen to us? Nope. So did we listen to them? Nope.

 

[bob-2000]

i don't much care for it. Shit, i start really soon...

 

[barryween]

I start school soon, and I picked "meh"
as far as schools go, mine's really nice (building wise, staff and student wise too) but I don't LOVE school. When I'm not in school I get bored and I hardly see any of my friends, but in school I have work, so...

 

[similar.squirrel]

It's all good, except for the fucking lousy, piece of shit, perverse Nazi-fetish, boy-scout fantasy uniforms. Whoever designed them needs to be taken behind the chemical sheds and shot

Phew...
Anyway. Free education is great. I feel privileged.

 

[antipunt]

I'm 'meh' on school. It has pluses and minuses. I mean, for example, I was worked-like-a-dog sometimes, but I'm well aware that it was building a foundation for learning, which I consider really important.

 

[Snuggle]

Thanks to everyone who commented and voted. Glad to see that someone enjoys their schools

Is this meaning school or college?
or both?
I like college for the fact that I choose lessons and have friends in the classes.
School was the arm-pit of depression where people got bullied, threatened, beaten up, etc
you get the idea, a normal school.
[diety], I HATE this country, or more precisely, the people that F*ck it up.

Just a curious question, which country are you from?

 

[Andalusa]

I don't mind school.
It's something to during the day and It's a good place to socialise.
On the other hand it can be monotonous, doing the same thing every week.

 

[Jedoro]

Grade school wasn't so bad, I was lazy and kept a 3.6 GPA with my AP classes. It was nice seeing people every day, but leaving also makes you realize how few actually are friends.

 

[L4hlborg]

I'm not sure what the British equivalent of high school is. For the most part, school was mediocre, but the year when I was 16-17 (first year of college in UK) was the best year of my life so far.

Don't really know English terminology of Finnish schools, but I'm sixteen at the moment and just went to a new school. In short: First there is nine years of necessary school, after that, it's all optional (though everybody goes to a new school since it's impossible to get any job with that training).

Any way, the first nine years were boring because they were too easy. Yes, you got it. TOO EASY. I got bored.

Well, the new school should be much more challenging. The only problem is that I'm fucking lonely. I know like one person in the school I could possibly talk to, but I never see her and she doesn't share any of the same classes with me so yeah. Everything else seems ok.

Oh yeah besides English studies. I mean nobody talks English here properly. It's absolutely unbearable to listen to them to attempt to pronounce something. And it's also too easy. If I don't get rid of that problem soon, I'll suffer huge brain damage.

 

[esperandote]

i like it, now i miss it. life was simpler, easier and funnier back then

i request an "i miss it" poll option

 

[sam13lfc]

I hated it, doing lessons that you don't give a crap about (English Lit springs to mind), being in the same groups as complete arse-holes and homework...omg...but it's over now, people in College are nice and you only do stuff that you actually like.

 

[Aardvark Soup]

Isn't there an option in between 'I love it!' and 'meh...'? The lessons could get pretty boring but school was a great place to make and socialise with friends. I never really minded to go there. In two weeks I'll be going to college for the first time and I'm really looking forward to it. Anyway, in retrospect high school was great, so I'll just pick 'I love it!' anyway.

 

[leviathanmisha]

Well, I pretty much enjoy school cause I have most of my friends there and we do crazy shit. Also seeing at it's my senior year, I can pretty much just cruise on through.

 

[sam13lfc]

No. I hated it and continue to hate it. I like the social aspect of it, but I hate the "teaching" aspect of it. I always wondered WHY do I need to know that much maths. WHY do I need to know that much literature, WHY do I need to know that much about biology. It just seems plain stupid that you are forced to memorize shit that won't help you has an adult.

Edit: I also COMPLETELY HATE the fact that you need to do homework. Isn't it enough that you got 5 books to memorize, now you need to spend the remaining 3 hours of your day REDOING WHAT YOU DID IN SCHOOL?!

I mean seriously, you do exercises in school, then when you get home you STUDY THE SAME THING AGAIN. Now you'd think that would be enough but NO! You also need to do shitload of homework.(Maybe I have such a bad look on homework because most of my teachers back in general school gave you ALOT of homework. Now combine that with the ammount of crap you had to memorize for the next day that kids eventualy had enough.)

The 7th grade was like that. Most of the class simply STOPPED bothering with studying and doing homework. Teachers mocked us about how we are the worst class in the school and how we've been "free falling" since the 6th grade and that we should stop. They even asked us to make suggestions. But did the teachers ever listen to us? Nope. So did we listen to them? Nope.

I absolutely 100% agree with you, although my 7th grade wasn't quite so bad.

 

[El Poncho]

Kids in my School will look at anyone different and attempt to destroy there lives because they are a bunch of arseholes.

 

[Xorghul]

Mind adding "it's alright" or something to the poll?

 

[[Cold-Shoulder]]

The education system for ages 12-18 here in Ireland is simply appalling. I can't wait to get out...

Couldn't have said it better myself.
Personally I despise going to school because of the jerks running around the place and most of the idiotic teachers that work there, but even though I'm dreading about going back to school I'd say it won't be as bad when I go back.
On another note, why did you had to start a thread about school?!?!
The dread of going back has become stronger! D':

 

[Beffudled Sheep]

College was some of the best years of my life.

Normal school however was the worst experience of my life. Sure I made good friends but thats the only positive to come out of it. I was bullied for a while (it stopped around grade 5) and most of the teachers couldn't teach a kindergarten class. A bunch of annoying, ass sucking pricks. They never taught, all they did was assign hours of busy work and tell us to figure it out ourselves. I was homicidal during my highschool years and still have anger issues that stem from those days.