Why school sucked

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You know those types of parents who have to treat kids teachers as people to socialize with even if it interferes with the the other kids. Must be bored housewives. Ugh.

Or they want the whole world to revolve around their kids. Some parents like their kids to be treated special and they helicopter their kids.

1 (although more off and on than continuous), 3 (with a passion), 5 (more a case of a person with "good" reputation could do no wrong, one with "bad" reputation could do no right) 6. Definitely this one.

The bullying was psychological, and probably wouldn't have been such a problem if it wasn't for the lack of emotional support from anywhere (teachers, for example had a "toughen up" attitude).

Edit: I was also quite "unbalanced" academically, which probably frustrated my teachers and was often attributed to "laziness/lack of effort" than a difficulty. Unfortunately that was internalized as self criticism.

I hated how some teachers are blind to some kids' crappy behavior. Most kids turn into as*holes. Some kids just do it faster than others or are more subtle about it.

I did better on the state tests for math and writing than I did in the ones for reading and science.

[quote]"Some kids just do it faster than others or are more subtle about it."[quote]
My observations exactly.

On state tests I was exactly the opposite, great on reading/comprehension, and science (even moreso once I reduced the science test to a set of reading/comprehension problems), about average on mathematics, and poor with writing (don't think it helped that (lack of) hand-eye coordination hit my handwriting quality and speed).

My sister was good at science and social studies. She was terrible at math, reading, and writing.

What sucked about school?
A quarter of my teachers didn't give a s**t about their job, a quarter were morons, a quarter were just teachers because they were control freaks without any ability to exert control over adults so they got into teaching instead. And of course about a quarter were good conscientious teachers that were there for the right reasons, about the breakdown of any demographic really.

Then there's the disruptive students (the attention hogs as the OP titled it in another thread) constantly derailing the lesson. The stupid 'clique' behavior and general 'groupism'. The general apathy towards learning by most of my peers. The constant competitiveness over stuff that doesn't really matter, such as who got first in line, who's the teacher's favorite, all that junk.

Having to be constantly monitored in the chem lab, it's pretty obvious I'm not the type to take science lightly, even at 15 I was known as 'the professor' well before I'd even heard of Asperger's, yet I was the one the teacher was constantly hovering over in lab.

Having to show my 'work' on math problems.

Being constantly bored out of my mind.

The expectation that I would 'cheat' for people to fit in.

Jock behavior.

Attempting to avoid a fight, getting flat out sucker punched instead, and going to the principal who gave me as much detention as the aggressor, reasoning 'you're going to be an adult soon, you need to learn to solve your own problems, that's the lesson here.'

Going back literally a week later, getting punched again, and retaliating by stomping my heel on the kid's ankle, fracturing his tibia and earning me a suspension that go around.

I think a more appropriate question for me would be: what didn't suck about school? Answer: free access to expensive text books and the bell to go home.

My school removed the bell for some reason or another , meaning teachers let us out according to "their own time". It wouldn't have bothered me, except the bus (I had a roughly 25km / 16 mile trip) didn't care about a teacher's watch and left two minutes after scheduled class end, often stranding students leaving class from the far side of campus.

Text books over here are an absolute rort, I have a book on telecommunications networks which was required reading for a university subject. It cost AU $150. I later discovered, the exact same book, same publisher, sells in the United States for $US 60. The Australian dollar at the time was close to $0.90US.

The latest trend in education is a push toward privately administered standardized testing, which appears designed to sell overpriced texts and study guides to anxious schools and parents. Glad I was out of there well before that trend started.

I HATE these people with a passion.
Once one tried to stab me and he got off without a punishment simply because he family was rich.
I got a suspension and was threatened with expulsion because i kicked him in the stomach and dropped him to the ground to stop him.
Later I told him if he ever tried anything sgain, I would kill him.
He never tried anything

Wow, that sounds terrible, and borderline negligent, imagine if something would have happened to one of the students stranded by the bus...



Yeah, textbooks are just ridiculously marked up, the higher level of education the more expensive they get. The kick is that people writing said textbooks (the people with the actual expertise), make mere pennies on them while the publisher laughs all the way to the bank.

Oh yeah that's right. Let's not forget the special lil people from the established special families in town that get to do as they pleased.

Elaine has it right. Most are as*holes.

My brother and this other kid wrote and drew some nasty stuff in one of those tourist books that the schools hand out in the spring. The kid's mom and the principal both thought that my brother was the bad influence. The principal said the other bot came from a "good Christian" family. My mom thought both boys should be punished for what they did. I'm pretty sure my brother was punished more severely.

Most scholarships won't even cover the costs of the textbooks. The other sucky part is when the book is not in stock at the book store and you wait like two weeks to get the book and you can't complete assignments without it.

For me it was:
- sensory overload, constantly felt dizzy and sick
- difficulty with personal grooming due to sensory issues
- mandatory subjects seemed irrelevant and pointless
- vaguely aware of not fitting in, but didn't care too much

Rich people are the worst.