Your school experience

[jowell24]

Seems like I'm part of the minority that enjoyed my time at school (in the UK)

Primary (Year 4-8) was pretty good, making different groups of friends depending on who were in my classes and you pick up truer friends along the way. Teachers were fine too. Bullied a tiny bit but not to the extent of other escapists from what I've read.

High school (Year 9-11) was great, so much banter, lots of friends and still regularly hang out with the majority of them (I generally prefer them to my uni friends). Classes were a breeze and quite good teachers.

I moved to a female catholic grammar school (I'm a guy) where I became part of the second year of boys let in for sixth form. For some reason I think not many boys did too well in their exams and there ended up being only 7 guys in my year and it was a different experience but in a good way. Like my GCSEs, I found my A-levels very manageable and had time to go out and game a lot and teachers had banter with the students which made it more enjoyable.

And now here I am in university missing the easy times.
It's great having more independence and income but the work is hard and I'm only one year in ha.

 

[HoneyVision]

My entire school experience was the definition of "average". I was smart but not amazing. I was popular but still bullied. I was a good kid but still a badass. Everything was very...mediocre. I went to an all-boys Catholic school, so it wasn't very exciting.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

School was fine. Pretty much just fucked around with friends doing stupid shit all day. In hindsight I could have applied myself a bit more but fuck it.

 

[Gauntlets28]

Primary school-Was great. Most teachers were fine, I got good grades, had friends. It was kinda weird, because I distinctly remember spending every break time reading in the library on my own, yet somehow (probably something to do with my being in the choir and school plays) I was oddly popular with nigh on everyone.

Secondary school-Started out badly, somehow (I don't know why) managed to be an attractive target for every bully in the boarding house, despite already being 6ft tall and built like a brick wall (all natural). I didn't really know how to fight, but after a while I learnt. Threw a guy into a fridge and dented it once. My grades have somewhat declined from the straight As I used to get, ever since I became so damned lazy. On the other hand,I took up the tuba in a marching band, still sing in the choir, was in the scouts for a bit, ran a small business selling food to the younger years for fun, and managed to somehow become the opposite of my generally introverted earlier self.

6th Form-Still in the same school, and writing for the school paper (or rather, writing most of), and am apparently very popular amongst teachers and students for it. Grades are still reasonably unexceptional, but not too bad. Had a girlfriend, broke up 9 months later, learnt how to enjoy school discos (find somebody drunk and make them like you), had a satire censored in the school, subsequently passed around the staff common room, and much more.
Wow, I've written a lot.

 

[Launcelot111]

High school was fantastic. I went the boarding school route, which was nice from the massive increase of independence and the whole new group of people to meet after the mediocre bunch I went to K-8 with.

In high school, the lack of drinking and the inability to go off campus too much lead to a very strong dorm culture where you would end up being pretty good friends with a solid third of your dorm every year. In comparison, during college, from day one everyone would disappear every night and go find somewhere to drink because it's the "college" thing to do. That's fine and all, but with a laughably underwhelming Greek system and a school administration that did much more than it needed to to fight drinking (and a town police force that was more than happy to ignore actual crime to arrest drunk students), it wasn't really up my alley. Add to that the fact that when sober, these people were pretentious douches who took every opportunity in class to go into a monologue about their hopes and dreams when the professor asks a question, and college was definitely a step down.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Can't say I remember much about my school days, just that I was the weird loner kid always off doing her own thing...

 

[bojackx]

Primary School: Pretty good I guess. I had a few friends and there was definitely some good memories, but in class every day I'd just sit there staring at the clock so I clearly didn't want to be there very much.

Secondary School: Significantly better, although for the first year and a half I was in a class with none of my friends and it sucked balls. I was able to move into a class with all my buds and had a great next 3 years. After I entered the last two years where all the pointless subjects were gone it was better; I liked the teachers and I was enjoying all the work too. It was also when I had my first few experiences with the opposite sex (as few as there was). It all ended with a bang too as I was able to form a temporary band with my closest friends to perform for the Leaver's prom.

Sixth Form: The best of my school years. Whilst the group of friends was slightly smaller, the work was nice and challenging and there was a lot of free time to mess about. I loved most of my teachers and came out of it at the end with great grades.

University: The least enjoyable of my academic experiences. Ever since I first started school I made friends and kept them for my entire school life, so when all of them went away to University I realised how utterly terrible my social skills were. Throughout the entire year I made one single friend who I've never spend any time with outside of lectures and lab. Fortunately, I was able to transfer to a university close enough to my house that I can commute there daily and hang out with the few friends who didn't go to university, but I never really get on with them much nowadays so 95% of my time not spent at uni I'm in my room.

With the summer holidays happening right now, things are back to normal with everyone returning from university, but I'm sure the exact same thing will happen once they leave for their second years, and I'll be back to being massively antisocial.

To conclude; good, then great, then greater, then shit.

 

[stroopwafel]

I was a day dreamer in school. My surrounding environment was never stimulating enough for me to give a shit. That's how I was in high school. Listening to people my own age brag about shit they never did. Not stimulating enough. Listening to the teachers just go through the motions when they are teaching. Not stimulating enough. I felt like I was on a game show in high school, "worlds most boring people."

Lol, I actually had the exact same thing. I fucking hated every minute of school. I was never bullied or anything but the days were just....soooooooo long and boring. Strange thing is I actually love to read and learn, but just not in school for some reason. It just wasn't for me.

Funny thing is that when I was about 18 I just couldn't force myself to go anymore and sold my remaining school books(which weren't worth shit) to buy...the Xenogears strategy guide.

Well a little while after that I started my own business which over time became a big success and earned me a nice stream of revenue and a comfortable life. So it all turned out well in the end! Thanks to games I really got more skilled in problem solving and being creative. So it contributed more to my life and economic status than (formal) school ever did!

 

[EeveeElectro]

Primary school was okay because kids aren't usually too cruel to each other. I didn't have many friends until the end of it though.

Secondary school was just fucking hell on Earth. I didn't know many people, I was constantly petrified of everything, I was absolutely despised even though I never even said a word to most people. When I told someone about being bullied, they'd rally against me and say I started it so I got in trouble. My school was just a majority of bullies, bitches and twats.
A lot of them left around the ages of 14-16 to have kids or because they were just thick. The last three years were okay. My grades were very average and I certainly wasn't one of those special brainy kids. I excelled at English and the English teachers loved me because I knuckled down and produced really good work.
Overall it wasn't very good. I'm destined to be one of those people who just get shat on and treated like crap no matter what I do.

 

[Petran79]

Up to the second grade things were fine, had few friends, we played and socialized.
Only shocking moment was in kindergarten.One day all kids went to a park with the teachers.
We boys played our own war games. In one of them without realizing the consequences, I picked a rock and threw it at a boy.
It busted his skull open, I was shocked and cried, teachers yelled at me and I didnt enter kindergarten for a few days. My parents were ashamed of me too....

In the third grade we moved to another country for a few years. I went to a school for fellow countrymen so I continued to be taught in my language. Problem was socializing. I only had 2 close friends and we werent liked that much by other children.
We sucked at sports, our main interest were cartoons, video games and making our own comics and drawings. I got into a fight with one kid because he picked on me.

When we returned back after a few years I was in the second year of middle school. Worst school year of my life. The friends I had before were in other schools and our friendship waned after these years of absence. Because I lived in a better country for a while and also sucked at sports, some bullies found another victim in me. Also my mom was a teacher in that school for that year, so kids who got low grades vent their anger on me. I didnt experience that much racism when I lived in a foreign country, I experienced much more racism when I returned in my own country....I also was afraid to react because I feared I could not roam freely in the neighborhood if I did that.But I managed to become friends with 2-3 people, with one of which we are still friends today. We used to play video games, both in the arcades and on computer and also played basketball and I improved a little slowly. We also liked to draw stories and scribble parodies in the literature and history school texts.

High School was the most boring period in my life. All my friends left for technical schools to learn a profession. I wanted to go there too but my parents insisted on going to a more theoretical high school to pursue university education.
Without close school friends I waited for the class to end so I could meet them. On the final year I pursued a science degree, but I couldnt last that much. Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics proved an insurmountable wall. Especially to me since I wasnt used to study methodically. So I lasted only the first few months, just to keep average grades, then collapsed. If you stop reading those subjects, it is impossible to cover the lost ground, unlike in Grammar or History. Fortunately the teachers werent that strict and I passed those faculties with the bare minimum even though I did nothing.

 

[Parasondox]

Secondary School (High School for those in USA) was just an experience that my brain is still in the process of deleting. Terrible so called "friends", I was the outsider that did my own thing and got bullied for it and now that I am 22, I see my pass class mates and those in my year, doing the same shit they did back in those days. Drug taking, living off mommy and daddy, having 3 kids by now, acting as if they run some sort of gang with a bunch of teens following them. So really school was slow for me and hated every bit of it that i moved out of the area. As soon as I reached college, I became more creative and confident within myself and life. I'm an individualist who does my own thing. I love sci-fi, fantasy, comics and really nerdy. Shame that its not that "norm" in east of London to be any of those.

 

[scorptatious]

My elementary school years were okay for the most part. Academically, I did okay from what I remember and I had a lot of friends too. Of course, being kids I guess they had an easier time putting up with me back then.

Middle school was horrible. Being a kid with autism, I had a pretty hard time transitioning from elementary school. I remember getting bullied a lot, although I was a bit of a little asshole myself, so I guess I deserved some of it.

I hated the teachers and classes. One of my classes was on the other side of the school from the class I was leaving, so I had to run my ass off to get there because the time between classes is really short. Often times, I wouldn't make it in time and get lunch detention.

High School was slightly better. Key word being slightly. I had a hard time making friends, I barely got past some of my classes. And the fact that I was pretty self conscious about myself made me pretty rude and hostile towards students and school staff.

It wasn't until my Junior year where I decided I needed to get my shit together. At that point, I went into Theater class and made a few friends there. I even developed a crush on one of the girls in there. Unfortunately, it didn't really go anywhere. After being pressured by some of my friends to ask her out to the senior ball, she told me that "she had to ask her mom about it". She never actually gave me a straight answer on whether or not she would go with me.

After that, I've been going to community college for a couple of years. And honestly, my time in college is pretty much the most positive school experience I had. I tried out quite a few things there. Photography, Yoga, Psychology, all of which were unique experiences. I think I might go a bit further into Psychology and see if it's something I'd like to do.

So yeah, overall my experience with school was kinda shitty all the way up to college. And I'm glad I don't have to go back to middle or high school.